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showing normal light signs of use and wear – minor things like dings, rosewood fingerboard wear in the first 3 frets under the first three or four strings, and just a couple of scrapes, dings, etc. 

The fact that this vintage vision of virtue is stamped “ES” inside, for “Enter Special,” a rare feature, and was made with an unusual looking three-tone sunburst – shaded in a manner one normally never sees – is a plus; that it’s a bona fide ’66 is a plus (with just a few revisions), and that it plays extraordinarily well and sounds like Layla, herself, on a bed of lightly sweetened lingonberries, is indeed the reward that awaits us all at the end of a life well served.  This is priced at $8,243 or, at our Cash Discount Price, $7,995 but until the pickup is restored it can't be ordered on-line.

Officially named the Telecaster in February 1951, the world’s first successful solid-body electric guitar turns 60. The Tele® revolutionized guitar playing, changed the sound of music and has become a signature instrument for guitarists worldwide. The 60th Anniversary Telecaster packs more than half a century of classic sound and design into one collectible U.S.-made instrument.  The Fender List Price is $1799.99

Not to beat the deceased Equus caballus or anything but, as you may have heard, the Fender Stratocaster guitar changed the course of modern rock ‘n’ roll history.  Leo Fender of Fullerton, California is credited with having popularized the electric solid body.   He reasoned, correctly, that he could bolt a slim, easily playable maple neck with a maple fingerboard to a solid body made of alder or ash, add six-strings and the sound that would be created, when amplified through a tube amplifier (also of his manufacture) would actually turn out to do nothing less than change the course of Western music.

In our industry “originality” is the most important consideration, and this example is brilliantly original.  It is a guitar for which no excuses need ever be made.    This is an instrument that any collector of Fender Stratocasters would give his or her molars to cohabitate with.   It is the crème de la crème, the something that’s superlative, the prize that lies before your eyes.   It is the solid body benefit that befits each Bree or Benny.   You can cast your bet across the net and never find as pure a penguin as is this prodigious pterodactyl.  NOW ON SALE!  OUR PRICE WAS $32,476 BUT NOW ON SALE FOR:

In case you may have missed this fact, the Fender electric guitar changed the course of modern rock ‘n’ roll history. Leo Fender of Fullerton, California is credited with having popularized the electric solid body. He reasoned, correctly, that he could bolt a slim, easily playable maple neck with a maple fingerboard to a solid body made of alder or ash, add six-strings and the sound that would be created, when amplified through a tube amplifier (also of his manufacture) would actually turn out to do nothing less than change the course of Western music.

WAS $12,885 BUT NOW ON SALE FOR:

This remarkably collectible electric guitar, whose neck dates to November 1955, body to October of the same year, shows normal signs of use and wear overall plus normal finish wear through the finish on the maple neck from finger contact, and, well, belt buckle wear on much of the back.  In other words, it looks exactly as an old Stratocaster should look.

One of the rarest and most desirable years of all Fender Basses and Guitars, this bass guitar has received (from our repair staff) one of the finest and most enthusiastic reports concerning all aspects of structural condition, originality, adjustability and playability as any vintage fretted instrument we have ever received.  WAS $9795 BUT NOW ON SALE FOR:

We are providing you a truly distinctive Telecaster designed by Custom Shop Senior Master Builder Chris Fleming. Originally conceived as an Telecaster that could've been made during the halcyon days of the early '50s (in point of fact, Fender didn't begin building Thinline guitars until the year 1968), the Fender Custom Telecaster Thinline guitar was recently reinvented in Relic form with many of the same features and materials found in early Nocaster guitars.

An example of the earliest version of this style amplifier, this Tolex covering is called “rough blonde” since it has a pebble finish and the color is, well, blonde, while the grille cloth is an oxblood color. The overall condition is excellent, though it shows some stains and minor discoloration it remains quite original and displaying less wear than one usually sees.

Per Mike Lennon’s repair order (11/27/07) The Arizona-based Apprentice Shop (one of the finest instrument restorers in the USA) “repaired and refinished the body, replaced the bridge, pickguard, back plate, neck plate and all of the screws, rewired to original, restrung and setup.”
NOW ON SALE!  Our Price WAS $23,195 but is just now reduced again (on 10/12/11) to:

This slab rosewood fingerboard guitar is considered to be three-tone sunburst that has faded, on the face, to two-tone but it still has a bit of red in the sunburst on the back. It has a body date of 3/60; the potentiometer codes on the volume and first tone pot are 304-5946 which declares that they’re Stackpole pots made in the 46th week of 1959. The bottom potentiometer was, in the past, replaced with a pot that has a click (detent) for “on-off.”