If you're looking to buy a vintage or custom built guitar, you've come to the right place. This site aggregates the latest auction for some of the most popular electric guitar models of the last 60 years, breaking them down into nice and easy listings for just the sort of guitar you're looking for.
Whether you're an avid guitar collector, an interested enthusiast or looking for spare parts, there's something here for you. As well as the eBay auction listings, there's news, photographs and videos to look at, and some background information on some classic guitars and guitar manufacturers.
Friday, Jan. 27th 2012 10:12 AM
The Pawn Stars team are used to being offered some treasures but, when they were offered a vintage Gibson Les Paul, they spent big to buy this particular ‘piece of history’, but why exactly? Well, Pawn Stars bought Les Paul’s cream 1961 Gibson SG, that’s why they spent big. Not often do you get the chance to buy a Gibson Les Paul that was owned by the man who made it famous, but that’s exactly the chance that the Pawn Stars team got and they took it.
The historic vintage guitar was being sold by the nephew of singer Mary Ford, who is Paul’s ex wife, and it was accompanied by paperwork documenting Paul’s relationship with Gibson, a relationship that blew hot and cold at the best of times. So, Pawn Stars really were buying a piece of musical history and at a princely sum too. They paid $90,000 for the historic Gibson Les Paul, a price that the nephew was adamant about before he entered the shop.
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Wednesday, Jan. 25th 2012 10:24 AM
Former Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley is an iconic artist from the Glam Rock era of the late 70’s and 80’s, and is famed most notably for modifying a Gibson Les Paul to pour smoke out of it as he played. To mark his undoubted success and his lifelong affiliation with the Les Paul, Gibson is making a range of Ace Frehley Gibson Les Pauls, each capturing the Glam Rock sound and vibe.
There will be three versions of these custom guitars; 50 x hand-aged guitars that are personally signed by Ace Frehley himself, 100 x hand-aged models without signatures and 150 x custom Les Pauls that have had the ‘vintage original spec’ treatment.
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Thursday, Jan. 19th 2012 9:12 AM
In 1980, Peter Frampton’s prized 1954 Gibson Les Paul was on a cargo plane along with his other equipment when it crashed en route to Panama. All of his equipment, including the vintage guitar, was believed to have been destroyed in the accident and Frampton’s career continued without his beloved Les Paul. However, thanks to a couple of fans and the Curacao Tourist Board, Peter Frampton’s guitar has been returned after 30 years of separation.
The guitar was Frampton’s number one instrument, which he used in sessions with George Harrison and Harry Nilsson, and which he believed to be lost forever. But a fan of Frampton thought that he may have discovered the prized Gibson Les Paul on the Dutch island of Curacao so he enlisted the assistance of another fan in Holland and, along with some help from the Curacao Tourist Board, they reunited the lost guitar with Frampton in Nashville just before Christmas.
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Monday, Jan. 9th 2012 9:51 PM
The Fender Custom Shop in Scottsdale, Arizona is famed for producing some of the finest quality guitars in the world, with their success story stretching back to the 1950’s. And now, this classic guitar manufacturer is heading back in time with the 2012 Fender vintage and custom guitar collection. The collection is made up of nine custom guitars and a custom bass, with six designs styled on classic Fender models while the other four are the latest designs from the legendary guitar makers.
The new 2012 Fender vintage and custom guitar collection features guitar designs of both past and present. These ten limited edition custom guitars are some of the finest instruments to be found, made using the most sought after materials and built at the Fender Custom Shop by time-served guitar builders.
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Monday, Oct. 10th 2011 9:36 AM
Over the years there have been many vintage guitars built and played, some better known than others. But what makes famous vintage guitars so iconic, so desirable and so famous? Some vintage guitars make their way into history for being the very first of their kind, with their makers being known as pioneers of their field, while others are the weapon of choice for some of the world’s biggest stars.
When you think of classic vintage electric guitars there are one or two names that spring to mind every time. Names like Fender, Gibson, Vox and Rickenbacker are all synonymous with vintage guitars and can be found at vintage guitar auctions around the world, where enthusiastic bidders can pay a small, or not so small, fortune for rare and desirable vintage guitars.
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Monday, Oct. 3rd 2011 5:23 PM
We’d all like to be the owner of a Fender Telecaster but just how far would you go to get your hands on one? Well, it is alleged that a Wisconsin man stole a guitar from the arms of a dead body that had been laid to rest in a crypt and, as a defence the accused is quoted as saying that he did it because he had “a respect for fine musical instruments.”
Allouez Catholic Cemetery employee Steven Conard saw the custom Fender Telecaster, which is worth in the region of $2,000, while working a shift and said to a fellow co-worker “I have to have that guitar, it’s too expensive to be in a crypt”, and it is alleged that he took the guitar from the deceased man’s casket.
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Tuesday, Sep. 27th 2011 9:20 AM
To many guitarists, the Gibson Les Paul is considered to be the ultimate solid body electric guitar, with many famous advocates of the timeless classic. But what makes the Les Paul such a desirable and critically acclaimed guitar? Is it design aspects such as the strings being mounted on the top of the guitar body, or maybe could it be the huge number a various custom guitars in the Les Paul range? No matter what the reason, the Gibson Les Paul is widely regarded as the best of the best…the ultimate!
On the road to earning the label of ‘ultimate solid body electric guitar’ the Gibson Les Paul has had some adventures, with hundreds of stars using the famous guitar to make their very own kind of music. This adventure may be 59 years old but it’s by no means slowing down. In fact, the Les Paul is as popular as ever, with new and improved stock and custom guitars leaving the factories every day.
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Friday, Sep. 23rd 2011 10:17 PM
Since the raid of the Gibson guitar factories in Memphis and Nashville last month there have been many rumors and fears regarding the ownership of custom guitars made using illegally imported wood. However, in a letter released by two federal agencies, it is stated that custom guitar owners won’t face prosecution, with efforts being focused on parties who are “removing protected species from the wild and making a profit by trafficking in them”.
The letter makes it clear that it’s importers of illegal woods, and the customers who offer a place to sell the contraband material, that the FBI are targeting in their most recent clampdown. This means that owners of possible contraband guitars needn’t worry, the Feds aren’t interested in chasing the end users, just the people who are making them.
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