Vintage

Gibson Style A Snakehead Mandolin Blacktop, 1927 ✓

On March 25, 2024 /

Here we’re looking at a Gibson Style A ‘Snakehead’ Black-top mandolin in A-1 trim from 1927 in overall good and largely original condition. The ‘Snakehead’ term refers to the tapered headstock, an innovation by Lloyd Loar that reduced string friction at the nut. ‘Snakehead’ models were built from 1923 to 1927.

Vintage

Price: $2,499.99 CAD

PRS SC-245 10 Top Solidbody Dark Cherry Burst, 2007 ✓

On March 24, 2024 /

This PRS SC-245 10 Top in dark cherry sunburst is a thing of beauty, in very good clean and original condition. The SC-245 model has been in and out of production twice, from 2007 to 2009 and then 2013 to 2016.
Here we’re looking at a first-year PRS SC-245 10 Top, built during 2007 in Stevensville, Maryland. Based on the Singlecut body design, this guitar has a spectacular, highly figured bookmatched Quilted Maple top on a Mahogany back.

Used

Price: $3,500.00 CAD

Fender Precision Bass Natural, 1979 ✓

On March 19, 2024 /

Introduced in 1951 and still in production with relatively minor changes, the Fender Precision Bass is an example of a designer getting almost everything right. Immediately, it almost completely displacing the upright bass it was intended to challenge, and it has become one of the most-used and most-recorded instruments in history.

Vintage

Price: $3,750.00 CAD

⚌Reduced‼ Cromwell G-4 Archtop Guitar by Gibson, 1935 ✓

On March 14, 2024 /

The Cromwell G-4 archtop guitar was built by Gibson from 1935 to 1939 and sold to various retailers and catalog distributors. Inside this guitar, visible through the bass F-hole is a well-preserved yellow label reading ‘New York Band Instrument Company’ indicating that it was sold by that company, at the time a large music store in New York City, but gone by 1950.

Vintage

Price: $1,950.00 CAD $2,150.00 CAD

Gibson L-4C Archtop with DeArmond Rhythm Chief Pickup, 1959 ✓

On March 7, 2024 /

Seen here is a Gibson L-4C cutaway archtop acoustic guitar with an original DeArmond Rhythm Chief 1100 pickup with its ‘Monkey on a Stick’ mount. This fine vintage guitar very much looks the part, and it plays well. The 16-inch wide Gibson L-4C was introduced in 1949 and came to replace the non-cutaway L-4. That model first appeared in 1912 as an oval-hole archtop, with F-holes becoming available in 1935 and finally discontinued in 1956.

Vintage

Price: $8,500.00 CAD

Fender Telecaster Bass Blonde, 1972 ✓

On March 6, 2024 /

The Fender Telecaster Bass launched in the surprisingly late year of 1968, though its appearance is very much like the original, revolutionary 1951 Precision Bass. From a modern perspective, there isn’t a lot to the Fender Telecaster Bass.

Vintage

Price: $5,450.00 CAD

Vintage

Gibson Style A Snakehead Mandolin Blacktop, 1927 ✓

PRS SC-245 10 Top Solidbody Dark Cherry Burst, 2007 ✓

Fender Precision Bass Natural, 1979 ✓

⚌Reduced‼ Cromwell G-4 Archtop Guitar by Gibson, 1935 ✓

Gibson L-4C Archtop with DeArmond Rhythm Chief Pickup, 1959 ✓

Fender Telecaster Bass Blonde, 1972 ✓

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