Brazilian Rosewood

Lenny Breau’s Ramirez 1a Flamenco Guitar, 1961 ✓

On September 27, 2023 /

Here is an historic piece – one of Lenny Breau’s Ramirez 1a Flamenco Guitars, built during 1961 and used during many appearances with Lenny as seen in the attached clips. The first clip is from is a CBC documentary from 1968 with Lenny playing the guitar with its distinctive friction tuners, and the visible, protective tap plates (Golpeador). Note the technical deviation from ‘strictly traditional’ Flamenco style – the use of a thumbpick, very likely a Chet Atkins influence.

Vintage

Price: $10,000.00 USD

❌SOLD❌ Gibson ES-350T Thinline Short Scale Sunburst, 1962

On September 15, 2023 /

The Gibson ES-350T (or ES-350TD to the early 1960s) is a thin-bodied, single cutaway fully hollow archtop electric built from 1955 to 1963 with a 23.5 inch scale length, and from 1977 to 1993 with a 25.5 inch scale. It started as the full-bodied, single-cutaway, 25.5 inch scale length single P-90 ES-350 Premiere in 1947. These full bodied ES-350 models were used by a number of top artists in the 1950s, most notably Chuck Berry.

Vintage

Price: $8,750.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ ODE Long Neck Openback Banjo, 1961

On September 12, 2023 /

Here we have an early ODE long neck – 32.25 inch scale! – banjo built by Chuck Ogsbury near Denver, Colorado in the dawning days of the 1960s. This interesting banjo features a cast aluminum pot with integral arch-top tone ring, a design developed for the second or third 100-instrument run of ODE banjos. With a serial number of 556, this banjo

Vintage

Price: $1,000.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ Fender Stratocaster Refinish Fiesta Red, 1961

On September 6, 2023 /

Seen here is a Fender Stratocaster Refinish in Fiesta Red, the body and neck built during 1961 in Fullerton California. It looks rather like a ‘Hank Marvin’ Stratocaster; when the Shadows were at their peak, many Strats in the UK were refinished in Fiesta Red, often by the official Fender distributor who could not get enough stock of that colour.

Vintage

Price: $9,500.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

Gibson ES-175D Archtop Electric Sunburst, 1955 ✓

On July 28, 2023 /

The Gibson ES-175D was formally introduced in 1953 as the Double P-90 pickup version of the single-pickup ES-175. Informally, a few were shipped in 1951 and 1952 but without the ‘D’ designation. This guitar came onto the scene in 1949 as a single pickup archtop with a sharp Florentine cutaway, Maple laminate body construction, Mahogany neck and Rosewood bridge and bound fingerboard.

Vintage

Price: $8,999.99 CAD

Martin 00-28C Classical Brazilian Rosewood, 1968 ✓

On July 23, 2023 /

The Martin 00-28C was the top of Martin’s classical guitar line, featuring Brazilian Rosewood back and sides and a fan-braced Sitka Spruce top. The fingerboard and bridge are Ebony, with Mahogany for the body blocks and neck. The bracing is Spruce, and the neck attachment style is a dovetail joint.

Vintage

Price: $5,250.00 CAD

Brazilian Rosewood

Lenny Breau’s Ramirez 1a Flamenco Guitar, 1961 ✓

❌SOLD❌ Gibson ES-350T Thinline Short Scale Sunburst, 1962

❌SOLD❌ ODE Long Neck Openback Banjo, 1961

❌SOLD❌ Fender Stratocaster Refinish Fiesta Red, 1961

Gibson ES-175D Archtop Electric Sunburst, 1955 ✓

Martin 00-28C Classical Brazilian Rosewood, 1968 ✓

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