Here’s a lovely Gibson ES-135 Tobacco Burst, built during 2001 in Memphis, Tennessee.
The ES-135 was originally built from 1956 to 1958, and then again from 1999 to 2002. Some models had P-100 pickups — stacked, humbucking versions of the P-90 – and others, like this one, featured standard humbuckers.
This example is in near mint condition. It has an interesting quirk – the label identifies it as an ES-335!
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Here’s a Masaru Kohno Special guitar from 1988.
Born in Osaka, Japan, Masaru Kohno studied under Arcángel Fernández in Madrid, Spain from 1960. By 1967, he was winning world-level guitar building competitions.
Known for very high quality workmanship, materials and tone, this is an excellent example of Kohno’s work.
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Here’s a Fender Stratocaster ‘Hardtail’ from 1977. The Stratocaster, one of the manifestations of Leo Fender’s genius, was introduced in 1954 with options for floating trem bridge and hard-tails, employing the back-of-body string ferrules found on the Telecaster. The hardtail verion was produced in smaller numbers until 2007, when it was discontinued. Hard-tail strats have a little more attack, bite, and sustain due to the lack of spring tension absorbing some energy.
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Here’s a lovely Fender Jaguar from 1965, in good condition.
Fender introduced the Jaguar in 1962. Its 24.75″ scale length was intended to make it attractive to players who preferred the shorter scale of Gibson guitars — this can make complex chord voicings easier to reach.
However, the Jaguar didn’t catch on much outside the Surf music community, and production ended in 1975. In the early 1990’s, Fender Japan started making reissues, and by 1999 US production had resumed.
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Here’s a lovely Fender Stratocaster in Natural finish from 1973. The Stratocaster was an instant hit when introduced in 1954 and has stayed popular since then.
This good-condition example from 1973 features a natural finish, mostly original hardware and has been refretted so it plays really well.
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