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The Imperial Guitar, Fodera's new single cut offering, combines the classic thick and rich tone of guitars from the 50’s updated with modern aesthetic, playability, and construction techniques. The Imperial Guitar features a customer’s choice of a one-piece, semi-hollow Mahogany, Walnut, or Korina body, as well as a customer’s choice of a 3-piece Mahogany, Korina, Maple, or Walnut neck. This guitar also incorporates a unique stop-tailpiece where a solid brass bar has been inlayed into a fingerboard-matching wooden shell providing added mass and sustain. The Imperial Guitar comes with a set of Seymour Duncan Custom Humbuckers providing a full, even, and rich sound with smooth highs, thick lows, and growling midrange.

Inspired by the classic surf sound born in Southern California, the new G&L Doheny takes its name from the iconic beach in the heart of Orange County where 60's surf pioneers became legends. Since those halcyon days, both music and surfing have evolved far beyond their roots, and so has the performance of the gear.
Doheny takes the bolt-on offset-body into new sonic territory with newly developed Magnetic Field Design jazz pickups, the first on any production G&L. Naturally, these new pickups will invite comparison to Leo’s jumbo MFD ASAT Special pickups, given they employ a narrow bobbin aperture and broad coil splay. But Doheny's MFD pickups are more about jangle than twang, just as they should be for a guitar like this. With a classic jazz bobbin aperture wrapped with traditional Formvar wire, these pickups just might be the approach Leo would have taken had he been with us a few years longer.
So what’s it like? The sound is rich in harmonics yet surprisingly full, the result of carefully researching and applying Leo's creative work across the decades. The Doheny pickups deliver the experience fans have hoped for, with their flexibility maximized by the PTB tone system that allows echoes of yesteryear while delivering more output and range for today’s music. Add in Leo's finest vibrato for enhanced tuning stability and improved sustain, and the results are astounding.

Do you ever wonder what life would be like if Les Paul hadn't lived, or if he had played flute? We know there would be some incredible innovations in flutes but it would left us poor guitars players in a bit of a lurch. Anyway, Les played guitar and we are all better off for it. Here we have a 2017 Gibson Les Paul Standard Traditional Pro. It's a beauty! It has a heritage cherry sunburst finish on a great looking flamed maple top with chrome hardware. The neck has a 60's Slim Taper profile that's very comfortable and fast. The frets are in perfect condition. The neck is straight and true. It sounds great and plays great. It's perfect and ready for action right out of the box. It shows no wear. None. It is clean as a pin. Not a single scratch, ding, or nick. Could easily pass for brand new. Comes with all paper work. The pickguard that has never been installed, and the original hardshell case.

One of just 35 pieces. Featuring a Trans Walnut finish, Roasted Maple Neck and fingerboard, and black binding.

Model: BFR StingRay Guitar
Description: BFR StingRay Guitar Walnut w/ roasted & bound neck
Color: Trans Walnut
Unique Feature #1: Trans Walnut Finish
Unique Feature #2: Roasted Maple Neck
Unique Feature #3: Bound neck (black binding)
Top/Body woods: African Mahogany
Body finish: High gloss polyester
Neck wood: Roasted Maple
Neck finish: Ultra-light satin polyurethane finish
Neck shape/size: Assymetrical C
Fingerboard wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard inlay: 1/4" Black Face dots
Scale Length: 25.5"
Radius: 10"
Number of frets: 22
Nut material: Melamine
Nut width: 1 5/8"
Tuning keys: Schaller M6-IND locking
Bridge type: Music Man Modern tremolo w/ vintage bent steel saddles
Hardware finish: Chrome
Pickups: Music Man custom wound humbucking w/ chrome cover
Controls - Knobs: 500kohm volume and tone - .022µF tone capacitor
Controls - Switches: 3-way toggle pickup selector
Case: SKB Hardshell Case

The new J Sonic from Lakland offers a familiar J bass feel, but with a tonal expansion that can only be described as large. The Chi Sonic pickups deliver a higher output than a standard single coil, with a deep bell like tone reminiscent of many classic bass. Tones are smooth and fat whilst still giving you the option to dial in that growl that Jazz basses are renowned for. Nut Width of 1.5, Rock maple neck, Ash body, Hipshop ultrlite tuners, Volume/Volume/Tone configuration. These basses are Plek'd in the US factory for absolute precision fret heights so they set up low and play like a dream.

Hey, I love my job. I get to look at cool guitars, play them, touch them, then write about them...and don't tell anybody, I get paid for this. HOW ABOUT THAT? Here we have a new Eastman T64V AMB. This guitar is modeled after the Gibson ES-330 and Epiphone Casino from the late fifties and sixties. It is a thin line, hollow body, with two P-90 style pickups, and a Bigsby vibrato. How cool is that? A Bigsby!! It has an aged varnish, Amber finish. Just an amazing guitar. If you are into The Beatles, early Stones, Slim Harpo, Howling Wolf, you'll like this. They all played models similar to this. It's my favorite new guitar in the store right now.

This Kiloton 5 features a unique Chechen fingerboard!

Model: Kiloton 5
Body Wood: Swamp Ash
Body Finish: Old School Tobacco Sunburst
Bridge: Saddle-Lock
Neck Wood: Hard Rock Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Chechen
Neck Profile: G&L Modern 5-Sring K5 C (.810"-.910")
Neck Finish: Satin Light Tint
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5"
Frets: Medium Jumbo
Nut: Bone
Nut Width: 1 7/8"
Fretboard Inlay: White Pearl Face Dots
Tuners: G&L Ultra-Lite
Controls: Volume, Tone, Series/Split/Parallel Mini Toggle
Pickups: G&L MFD L-Series Humbucker
Setup: PLEK
Case: Deluxe Black Tolex

Here's a super cool bass that you don't see very often. We have a 1963 Gretsch 6070 Country Gentleman hollow body bass. Featues one single Gretsch Supertron pickup. This is a great sounding bass, perfect for blues, jump blues, jazz, rock, anything you want. The neck feel has a similar profile to an upright bass: BIG and full, and it has that upright bass thump too, even when it's plugged in. Just so cool. Now the downside: it has the typical vintage Gretsch binding issues, which means it's going brittle and crumbling. The previous owner says the binding hasn't changed in the last 20 years, and it does appear to be stable. If it were mine, I would leave the binding alone. It certainly doesn't affect the sound or playability. The finish is original...everything is original for that matter. We are selling it as-is regarding cosmetic issues, but we guarantee that the bass works and plays fine. The frets are in good shape. This bass has had flatwound strings on it its entire life, so the fingerboard is in fine shape. The bass player for the Sons Of Champlin played a bass just like this at the Human Be In in San Francisco, so there's that. There is no case and no stand post.

The Emperor Guitar, Fodera's new double cutaway, bolt-on offering, combines the classic sparkle and chime of ‘60’s and ‘70’s blues and surf sounds with added tonal flexibilityfor today’s player. The Emperor features a premium, handselected Alder body and Indian Rosewood fingerboard paired with a 3-piece Hard Rock Maple neck and angled back headstock. The Emperor Guitar comes with a custom set of Seymour Duncan Single-Coil pickups providing the authentic chime, sparkle, and feel that only vintage single coil pickups deliver. Unique to the Emperor Guitar is a pickup configuration that allows for a wider variety of tonal options compared to traditional Single-Coil-style instruments. In addition to the traditional 5-way pickup selector, a bridge pickup switch has been provided to allow the bridge pickup to be engaged with any pickup selector position.