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National Mike Dowling Signature El Trovador Natural, 2008

On September 12, 2023 /

Designed in collaboration with Mike Dowling, the National Mike Dowling Signature El Trovador is a single cone guitar patterned after the famous National El Trovador between 1932 and 1933. The National Mike Dowling El Trovador guitar features a large, 4 inch deep body built from mahogany laminate with a wooden soundwell for the resonator.

Used

Price: $4,000.00 CAD

❌SOLD❌ Epiphone Emperor Regent Archtop Electric Natural Antique, 1997

On September 8, 2023 /

Built as a ‘reissue’ from 1995 to 2011, the Epiphone Emperor Regent is a full 17 inch wide archtop guitar with a single floating pickup and pickguard-mounted controls. The label reads ‘Epiphone Emperor NA’ (NA meaning Natural Antique), the Emperor model had two top-mounted pickups, the Regent has one floating pickup. From their 1939 introduction, the Epiphone Emperor Regent and upgraded Emperor were at the top of the Epiphone archtop line, with Gibson as their main competition.

Used

Price: $1,000.00 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

Gibson ES-135H Semi-Hollow Archtop Red, 2003

On June 28, 2023 /

The Gibson ES-135H was the ‘Humbucker’ equipped version of the ES-135, a single-cut Semi-Hollow Archtop built in Memphis from 1991 to 2004. Many of these models used P-100 pickups – a stacked humbucker with the outline of a P-90. Some models used a Trapeze tailpiece, others as seen here a standard Tune-O-Matic and Stop Tailpiece combination.

Used

Price: $2,500.00 CAD

❌SOLD❌ Epiphone Masterbilt Melody Tenor Guitar Sunburst, 1933

On June 17, 2023 /

The Epiphone Masterbilt Melody Tenor guitar was built from 1931 to 1937 in New York, largely supporting the great banjoist migration of the period. In the late 1920’s banjo players, for a variety of reasons, began to move to guitar-based instruments and the Tenor guitar mapped almost directly to tenor banjos.

Vintage

Price: $1,599.99 CAD

This instrument has sold

❌SOLD❌ Guild X170 Archtop Electric Sunburst, 2002

On March 15, 2023 /

Guild archtop guitars, like this beautiful, original condition Guild X170 Archtop built during 2002 in Westerly Rhode Island, have been popular with jazz and blues players for decades. The Guild X170, also sometimes identified as the X-170 on the same guitar (here the truss rod cover reads X-170, the label X170), was introduced in 1985 and produced until 2002.

Used

Price: $3,200.00 CAD

This instrument has sold

Laminate

National Mike Dowling Signature El Trovador Natural, 2008

❌SOLD❌ Epiphone Emperor Regent Archtop Electric Natural Antique, 1997

Gibson ES-175D Archtop Electric Sunburst, 1955

Gibson ES-135H Semi-Hollow Archtop Red, 2003

❌SOLD❌ Epiphone Masterbilt Melody Tenor Guitar Sunburst, 1933

❌SOLD❌ Guild X170 Archtop Electric Sunburst, 2002

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