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Taylor T5z Classic DLX
This deluxe edition of our mahogany-top T5z Classic sports an aesthetic upgrade to a rich all-gloss body and shaded edgeburst (entire guitar), adding refined character to the guitar’s vintage look. Distinctive T5z features include a more compact body than the original T5, a 12-inch fretboard radius, and jumbo frets, which add up to a fast, fluid playing experience that makes string bends fun. Like the T5, the T5z is equipped with a three-pickup configuration of an acoustic body sensor, a concealed neck humbucker, and a visible bridge humbucker, plus five-way switching and onboard tone controls, giving players an incredibly versatile electric/acoustic guitar. Appointments include small diamond inlays and nickel hardware. The guitar ships in a Taylor deluxe hard shell case.Sold
2016 Melancon Pro Artist T
Here's an exceptional T-style guitar from legendary luthier Gerard Melancon ( https://www.fretboardjournal.c om/columns/bench-press-gerard- melancon/ ). It is top quality through and through. This guitar, serial # 1820, features a lightweight Alder body topped with gorgeous East Indian Rosewood in natural with a dark brown back satin finish. It weighs in a comfortable 7 lbs 9.4 oz. The neck and fingerboard are made from Brazilian Rosewood! The standard carve neck has a 1.65" width nut, a 10" fingerboard radius and stainless steel frets. This guitar is very comfortable to play! The versatile electric tone is courtesy of a Melancon Vintage T pickup in the neck position and a Hot T in the bridge position. The guitar is in excellent condition. We would call it in near mint conditon except that it has just one small ding on the back. The Pro Artist "T" comes with it's original hardshell case and documentation. It was first shipped in January of 2016 so may have been built in late 2015.Sold
2006 Parker Fly Deluxe
The Fly is an ultra-modern guitar with full electric and acoustic sounds and a sophisticated tremolo system. This Parker Fly is in very good condition and sounds and plays great. It has a few dings on some corners and the headstock but they are minor and the guitar is priced accordingly. This beauty weighs in at a svelte 5.3 lbs and comes with its original hard shell case.Sold
2010 Nash T-63 (TC-63) Black, Double-Bound
The TC63 is a big sounding guitar has the vibe and versatility you expect from a great early 60’s slab-board T. You’ll get a warm, familiar feeling the moment that you pick it up and that only gets better when you plug it in! The body is alder. It has a rosewood board on a C neck. The anodized pickguard is after market and replaced the original 3-ply white guard. It weighs in at 7 lbs. 7.4oz and comes with a non-original tweed case.Sold
Collings City Limits Tobacco Sunburst
Wow! This Collings City Limits features a Figured Maple top in Tobacco Sunburst, and a Honduran Mahogany body and neck and 60's neck carve. It has a high gloss Nitrocellulose finish, Dual ThroBak Custom pickups, CTS 500K pots, and Jupiter Yellow Vintage Tone capacitors. The CL comes from Collings with 11-49 strings, and it comes with a Collings deluxe hardshell case by Ameritage.Sold
Collings I-30 LC Aged Jet Black with Aged Finish and Hardware
This I-30 LC is as cool as it gets in a full body Aged Jet Black Finish with aged hardware. This guitar feels and sounds as good as it looks with a pair of Lollar dog-ear P-90 pick-ups. It comes with a hard shell case.Sold
Collings I35 LC Iced Tea Sunburst
Nothing beats this I35 LC in Iced Tea Sunburst. The build is immaculate and the tone is killer with Lollar Low-Wind Imperial humbuckers. From Jazz and Blues to Rock-and-Roll, this guitar covers all the bases! It comes with a hard shell case.Sold
2017 Rutters Style T Roasted Alder
This Rutters custom Style T was built to order in January of 2017. It features a roasted Alder body, and a roasted Maple and Rosewood neck. The pickups and potentiometers were custom ordered from Ron Ellis. All the rest of the parts are custom made by Rutters. The saddles are intonation compensated, and the bridge and neck plates feature a Rutters stamp. It also features a Rutters twisted jack cup. The control plate is reversed so that you don't accidentally hit the selector switch when you're strumming, and the switch tip is knurled metal to match the knobs. The nut width is 1 3/4" and the scale length is 25 1/2". It weighs in at 7 lbs .08 oz. and features #6125 Jescar frets ( .095 x .047"). The neck profile is "C" with a .86" thickness at the 1st fret and .97" at the 12th. It comes with a hard shell case. This guitar sounds and feels great! With a hard shell case.Sold
2014 Creston Barn Beam Custom
This Creston Barn Beam custom guitar not only sounds amazing, but it has a beautifully aged barn beam body reclaimed from a Vermont barn not far from the Creston guitar workshop in Burlington, VT. Salvaged white pine body maple / rosewood neck steel pickguard Lollar 1950's-wind soapbar Lollar Vintage bridge pickup It comes with a teardrop hard case in alligator.Sold
2020 Relish Eucalipt Mary
This is one cool Swiss-design guitar! It comes with a set of Relish Alnico Humbuckers. The Eucalypt Mary is coated in a magnificent eucalyptus veneer on the body front and the headstock, framed by black edges and a black magnetically deatcheable back lid. Mary really stands out with a unique look, a crystal clear clean sound and her floating sandwich construction. The piano-style construction with two magnetic high pressure veneers on either side of her aluminum core creates a brilliant crystal clear sound that vibrates freely from the bolted on bent neck to the piezo loaded saddles in the bridge. The ghost piezo by Graph Tech, built into the saddles adds warmth and enhances the guitar’s natural acoustic sound, widening the already extensive pickup functionalities provided by a push-push coil split tone knob. The magnetic back lid gives access to Mary’s tidy interior and makes way for lightspeed pickup swapping. SPECIFICATIONS Body Construction: Semi-Hollow Floating Sandwich Construction Scale Length: 650 mm (25.59") Case: Relish Hard Case Weight: 3.7 kg (8.2 lbs) Tuners: Gotoh SG 381 Truss Rod: Two-Way Switch: 1 Volume, 1 Tone (Push-Push Coil Split), 3-Way Stereo Toggle (Pickups Mono, Piezo Mono, Pickups & Piezo Stereo), 3-Way Toggle, Piezo Mid Range Boost Push/Pull Strings: D'Addario NYXL 10-46 Pickups: GHOST Piezo by Graph Tech (Stereo Output Jack), Relish Alnico Humbucker (Pickup Swapping-ready) Body Material: Aluminium / High Pressure Veneers Nut Width: 42.5 mm (1.67") Nut Material: Graphite Neck Shape: modern "C" shape (tapered 43mm-57mm) Neck Material: Bent 1-Piece Maple Fretwire: 24 Medium Jumbo Stainless Steel Frets Fretboard Radius: 10"Sold
2011 Red Rocket Atomic Series Custom Tele
This custom gold top tele just kills! The beauty boasts a Honduran Mahogany hand oiled body and highly flamed Maple hand shaved soft V neck. The abalone inlays offset the birds-eye Maple fingerboard. The Sperzel locking tuners stabilize tuning and make string changes a breeze. The classic feel of the neck is complemented but the great sounding choice of a T.V. Jones T'Armond neck pickup and a Lindy Fralin Blues Special bridge pickup. The guitar weighs in at 7 lbs 8.6 oz. This guitar is in excellent condition with only a single, small flaw in the finish at the neck joint from the neck from being removed once for an adjustment. It comes with a tweed hard shell case.Sold
2010 Epiphone Swingster/WR
In Wine Red, The Epiphone Emperor Swingster hollowbody electric guitar injects twangy, vintage character into a classic design! Epiphone based the Emperor Swingster around the body and neck of the venerable Emperor-II (made famous by jazz master Joe Pass), added a dedicated pair of humbucking pickups, and installed a parallel/series wiring scheme that gives you a range of outstanding tones from rich and smoky to defined and snappy! The Tune-o-matic bridge/vintage-style tremolo combo gives you amazingly stable performance. And this guitar doesn't just sound amazing; you get plenty of eye-catching appointments onboard the Emperor Swingster!Sold
2020 Epiphone 1959 Les Paul Standard Outfit
Dark cherryburst, easily one of the greatest Les Pauls that Epiphone has ever produced, this is the new Epiphone Les Paul 1959 Les Paul Outfit, complete with a flame maple cap and Aged Dark Cherry Burst finish. The guitar has a smooth satin finish, with handwired CTS pots and harness, and a set of Gibson USA Burstbucker pickups. The value on this special Epiphone is unparalleled! Includes: Hardshell Case and Paperwork Solidbody Electric Guitar Flame Maple Top, Satin VOS Finish Mahogany Body Mahogany Neck Rosewood Fingerboard Trapezoid Inlays 24 3/4" Scale Length 12" Radius 22 Frets Gibson USA Burstbucker Humbuckers, Handwired CTS Pots Individual Volume Controls and Tone Controls Three-Way Selector Switch Tune-o-Matic Bridge Stopbar Tailpiece Limited Edition Backplate Nickel Hardware 8 lbs 10oz (approx)Sold
Collings Statesman LC Jet Black Aged Finish and Hardware
Back in black! This one killer-diller electric dressed in full body Jet Black with aged finish and hardware. Other features include: Ebony fretboard, Ebony Veneer, Half Parallelogram inlays, Black Pickguard (1-Ply), Ebony Truss Rod Cover, Black Knobs, Black Rings, LollarTron Vintage-Neck pickup, LollarTron Vintage- Bridge pickup, Bigsby Tailpiece. It comes with a hard shell case.Sold
Collings 290 TV Yellow
Named for the scenic 290 highway that winds past the Collings shop though the Texas Hill Country, the 290 is a modern day tribute to the original working man's rock'n roll guitar. TV Yellow with an Ivoroid bound fingerboard! A solid mahogany body and neck are complemented by two Lollar SoapBar P90 pickups for a tone that shows off the amazing harmonic range and dynamics of this often underrated configuration.Sold
2000 Parker Fly Classic
The Parker Fly Classic is one of the best sounding models they've ever made. It is great for rock, jazz, blues and more. It features a solid mahogany body, two humbuckers and a piezo. This was the first guitar designed that offered separate stereo output for the acoustic and electric pick-ups for a wide range of possible sounds. This guitar weighs in 5 lbs 4 oz and is in excellent condition. It comes with it's original gig bag.Sold
2016 T5z Classic
This T5z Classic is in almost unplayed, excellent condition and sounds and plays great! The deep color and rich grain of a mahogany top give the T5z Classic a vintage, earthy character. Distinctive T5z features include a more compact body than the original T5, a 12-inch fretboard radius, and jumbo frets, which add up to a fast, fluid playing experience that makes string bends fun. Like the T5, the T5z is equipped with a three-pickup configuration of an acoustic body sensor, a concealed neck humbucker, and a visible bridge humbucker, plus five-way switching and onboard tone controls, giving players an incredibly versatile electric/acoustic guitar. Appointments include Small Diamond inlays and nickel hardware, an unbound body and satin classic mahogany finish. A hard shell case is included.Sold
Airline Lap Steel
Sweet sounding, sweet playing little lap steel. Big sounding pickup, great output. Excellent shape for its age, with only a few minor dings here and there. Nothing more ethereal than a little steel on your palette. Comes with what appears to be the original case.Sold
D'Angelico Excell EX-DC
Awesome player grade ex-dc killer funk, jazz, soul machine. Previous owner was a dedicated jazz guitarist in the NYC area and this was his main guitar for years. Forget the up-charge road worn or relic this is the real deal. Nice rich warm jazz box tone, in a comfortable compact format. Easy playing with many tonal combinations. There is medium fret-wear up and down the neck despite this it plays well and all the notes sounds nicely. The decorative caps are missing from two of the four knobs, the patina on the pickups are worn from palm friction. Nicks and dings here and there and a finish crack on the back of the head-stock (we looked at this closely and appears only to be in the black laminate on the back, not the wood). This instrument does not come with case or bag and is priced accordingly. We strung this with some nice flat wound D'Addario strings.Sold
2018 Eastman AR905CE-SB
Renowned internationally for their violins and arch-top instruments Eastman musical instruments combines top quality materials with fine craftsmanship to produce professional level guitars. This particular AR905CE-SB (SB signifying sunburst) is a joy to play. We set this up with nice D’Addario flat wound strings and once you get playing on this you just don’t want to stop. This guitar can do it all. The tone of this instrument is lush. A nice warm sound is produced with robust bottom end. I tried it through a princeton amp with a little reverb and vibrato, one word to describe it is beautiful. Being an arch top, it has excellent responsiveness and life with each note. One of my favorite things about this instrument is the the maple binding on every single part of the guitar. The body, the neck, the headstock, the soundholes, the pickguard, no place was left unbound in this gorgeous maple. The back and sides too are a beautiful figured maple with lots of visual effect. Premium hand carved spruce top brings it all together with that great velocity of sound. To top it all off is the premium black ebony tail piece, bridge and fingerboard. This instrument was owned by a professional musician in the NYC area who played it regularly. It has signs of use such as light finish wear and a few small dings and dents here and there as you might expect from a well loved and well played instrument. Light fretwear. Overall condition is excellent and it comes with its original hard shell case. Original Price $3039 at Rudy’s in NYC Serial Number 10455679Sold
1998 Gibson Les Paul Classic
This is cherry sunburst Les Paul is in excellent condition with no dings, dents, scratches, etc. and no fret wear. It weighs in at 9 lbs 1.4 oz and seems like it was never played. It has low action and the two exposed humbuckers sounds great! w/hsc in very good + condition
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Why are electric guitars great for beginners?
Electric guitars are perfect for beginners because electric guitars have smaller necks and lighter strings compared to acoustic guitars, making them easier to play. However, they do require amplification through guitar amps to produce a louder sound. For the actual technique of playing guitar Berklee is a great resource.
What is the history of electric guitars?
The Inception of Electric Guitars: A Brief History The invention of electric guitars dates back to the 1930s, when guitar players needed louder instruments to keep up with larger bands and eventually rock and roll. Electric guitars work on the principle of magnetism, where a magnetic pickup detects the vibration of the metal strings and converts it into an electric signal that is amplified through a guitar amplifier.
Iconic Electric Guitar Designs from the 1950s and 1960s The history of electric guitars took off in the 1950s with the introduction of iconic models from brands like Leo Fender and Gibson. The popular Fender Telecaster was one of the earliest electric guitar designs and featured a solid maple neck and two pickups. The Fender Stratocaster, introduced later, had a contoured body and three single coil pickups. The Gibson Les Paul, another classic design, featured humbucking pickups and a solid mahogany body and neck, making it a favorite for driving amplifiers into distortion in rock and roll and later, metal. These iconic designs, the Les Paul, Telecaster, and Stratocaster, remain popular to this day and are replicated by numerous brands with their own twists on headstock design, color options, and pickups.
You can learn more about guitar history here.
How Much Do Electric Guitars Cost?
The cost of electric guitars varies widely, ranging from a few hundred dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars for rare vintage models.
Why Choose a Small Independent Guitar Store?
Support local economies and family-owned businesses by choosing to buy from a small independent guitar store like Northern Lights Music. Unlike big chain stores like Guitar Center, Sweetwater, and Musicians Friend, which are owned by hedge funds and other investors, small independent stores offer a more personalized experience, individual attention, and lasting relationships.
How do I find my unique sound on the electric guitar?
Finding Your Sound and Choosing Your Tone Start by exploring the music of your favorite artists to find the right electric guitar for your style. Pay attention to the style of guitar they play and the pedals and amplifiers they use, as these are key to their signature sound.
What is the difference between Solidbody electric guitars and ones that are chambered or hollow?
Solidbody vs. Chambered Body Guitars Solid body guitars, such as the Stratocaster and Telecaster, are made from solid chunks of wood and have little acoustic tone. Les Pauls can also be solid, but sometimes, guitarists prefer chambered body guitars to reduce weight during long gigs or extended playing. Chambered body guitars have pockets of wood removed from inside the body, such as the Thin-line telecaster, which features a visible chambered body.