Yearly Archives

2011

Suhr Rasmus Standard S100

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Sleek and fast yet classy with the mojo and tone – the Suhr Rasmus S100. Popular as a “deluxe” custom guitar with 5A grade Quilted Maple and Flame Maple tops and matching figured headstock, the Standard can also be stripped down as a no-frills gigging workhorse guitar that performs like no other axe night after night.
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Fender Road Worn Player Stratocaster

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The Road Worn Player Stratocaster guitar has an alder body with a lightly worn lacquer finish, modern “C”-shaped maple neck with lightly worn urethane finish, maple fretboard with 9.5” radius and medium jumbo frets, Texas Special™ single-coil pickups, five-way switching, aged knobs and switch tip, three-ply pickguard and vintage-style synchronized tremolo bridge.
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Jackson Dinky DKXT

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The Jackson Dinky™ DKXT has an arch-top basswood body (quilt maple veneer on Trans Red finish), bolt-on maple neck and passive EMG® HZ H4-AN (neck) and H4-B (bridge) humbucking pickups that deliver well-balanced tone with tight bass, glassy mids and crunching highs. Its bound compound-radius rosewood fingerboard curves more dramatically at the nut for easy chording and flattens out as it approaches the neck joint for low-action bends without fretting out. Other features include 24 jumbo frets, three-way pickup switching and TonePros® fully adjustable bridge with through-body strings for thick sustain.
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Fender Modern Player Jaguar

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The Modern Player Jaguar® is a lean, mean and stripped-down version of the classic Fender model, with a full-throated pair of single-coil Modern Player MP-90 pickups on a sans-pickguard mahogany body. Other features include a C-shaped maple neck, rosewood fretboard with 9.5” radius and 21 medium jumbo frets, three-way toggle pickup switching, Jazz Bass®-style control knobs, vintage-style Adjusto-Matic™ bridge with anchored tailpiece, vintage-style tuners and nickel/chrome hardware.
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Kramer The 84 Baretta White Bullseye

Kramer The 84 Baretta

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Kramer introduces “The 84,” an homage to one of the most formative shred-monster axes of all time. Styled in the image of the original Kramer Baretta of 1984 with offset double-cutaway body and droopy “banana” headstock—the guitar played and endorsed for a time by Edward Van Halen – “The 84” captures all the power, playability and attitude of the original, with classic “bullseye” graphics to make it more attention-grabbing than ever.
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PRS SE Custom Semi-Hollow

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The SE Custom Semi-Hollow has the same basic appointments as the SE Custom – mahogany back, maple top, 22-fret wide-fat mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard and SE humbucking pickups. The addition of a hollow chamber and modern f-hole give it a musical midrange and internal reverb that make this a very light, comfortable and versatile guitar.
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Gibson SG Special Limited

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The SG Special brings all of this great guitar’s attributes to a no-nonsense package that’s heavy on tone, but easy on the budget. All of the real-deal tonewoods, construction, and playability are here, along with the classic hardware complement and an upgraded set of high-output Gibson Dirty Fingers humbucking pickups.
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Eastwood Airline Bighorn

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One of the early “student” guitars found in North American Catalogs in the 1960s. This model was available under the brands of Airline, Supro, Kay and many others. This new Eastwood release is based on the original 1960′s AIRLINE Bighorn, it features an updated adjustable bridge, truss rod and the modern popular Diamond Argyle single coil pickups.
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Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster ’50s

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In the early years of Fender, the Telecaster quickly became an everyman’s guitar because of its versatile sound, ease of playing and reasonable cost. The new Classic Vibe Telecaster ’50s in Butterscotch Blonde delivers on that original promise. Features include a gorgeous new Butterscotch Blonde finish on a pine body, and a vintage-tint gloss fast-action maple neck with 21 medium-jumbo frets and modern 9.5” fretboard radius.
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Gibson Baritone Explorer

Gibson Baritone Explorer

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Seeking the full-throated rumble of a long-scale, drop-tuned instrument with the iconic Modernist Series styling of the Explorer guitar? The Explorer Baritone from Gibson USA is at your service. A hot and heavy journey to the lower dimensions of electric guitar tone, the Explorer Baritone wraps all the iconic Explorer style, construction and attitude into a guitar with a 28″ scale length that’s perfect for the lower tunings that are popular in rock, thrash and metal today.
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Charvel Desolation Skatecaster SK-1 ST

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The Desolation Skatecaster SK-1 ST is a modernized take on the highly distinctive Charvel Surfcaster of the early 1990s, with a solid mahogany body and neck-through design. Features include a bound mahogany neck, compound radius (12”-16”) rosewood fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets and abalone “keystone” inlays, abalone body and headstock binding, EMG® 85 (neck) and 81 (bridge) active humbucking pickups with three-way toggle switching, single control knob (volume), Charvel bridge specially designed for compound-radius fingerboards, black nickel hardware, three-on-a-side locking Charvel tuners, and solid and trans finishes.
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