The Fender telecaster, known for its bright cutting tone, has been the preferred guitar for several guitarists, including Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Continue reading
Vintage Gretsch Guitars are best known for their rockabilly country music appeal. Gretsch is celebrating its 125th anniversary, which makes it even more appropriate to highlight some of their vintage guitars.
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Interested in learning more about Kramer Vintage Guitars? Well, they’re definitely a unique sound and still a favorite among many. They were launched in the 1970′s before being bought and owned by Gibson guitars in the 1980′s. The models from the 70′s feature aluminum necks and later models produced in the 80′s featured wood necks.
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Vintage Fender Stratocasters are a favorite of many guitar players and highly collectible today. Finding vintage Stratocasters for sale is not difficult if you know where – and how – to look. Below we’ve put together a custom search to help make finding Vintage Fender Stratocasters for Sale easier. This page is constantly updated with the newest listings from ebay, so if you don’t find what you’re looking for today, be sure to bookmark this page and come back in a day or two to see what’s new.
Here are the most recent vintage Stratocasters for sale:
We have the list from “highest priced” to “lowest” simply because that helps filter out a lot of the reissues or sellers with a newer Fender with a “vintage finish”. If the first page is out of your budget, click on the “view all listings” link above and keep going 
Remember though: just because a listing on ebay looks like the real thing and has the appropriate price, you should still be careful – do your homework on Fender serial numbers, the dates and the features of the guitars produced during that date. Our page of buying tips can offer additional ways to make smart – and safe purchasing decisions when buying a vintage Fender Stratocaster for sale.
The first Gibson Doubleneck Guitars were introduced in 1958. The purpose of the doubleneck guitar was to allow the guitar player to switch between two guitars without the need of putting down one guitar and picking the other guitar up. The Gibson Vintage Doubleneck Guitars were one of the first of its kind, Gibson also made history by factory building the doubleneck guitar.
Many popular artists have implemented doubleneck guitars into their music, including Jimmy Page, known for playing Stairway to Heaven and is what inspired the Jimmy Page Signature Doubleneck, which had been reissued as a Gibson limited edition.
Here are the models of Gibson Doubleneck Guitars That Have Been Released:
Gibson EDS 1275 Doubleneck Guitar (1958-1990)
The Gibson EDS 1275 is one of the first doubleneck guitars to be manufactured. Early editions have a hollow body style while later editions are solid bodies. The Gibson EDS 1275 has one 6 string neck and one 12 string neck. Each guitar has 20 frets and its own humbucker pickup.
Gibson EMS 1235 Double Mandolin (1958-1968)
The double Mandolin guitar is semi hollow and made of spruce and maple. Compared to the sales of the other doubleneck Gibson guitars, relatively few were sold, so are quite a collectors’ item today because of their scarcity.
Gibson EBS-1250 and EBSF Doubleneck Guitar (1962-1970)
This Gibson double neck guitar features the top neck as a four string bass guitar and the bottom neck as a standard six string guitar. It was the EBSF guitar that Gibson introduced the built-in fuzz tone, to discontinue it in the EBS models.
Below we’ve included ebay listings for Gibson doubleneck guitars to give you an idea of their value today – and of course it’s a good place to see if you can find one of these rare guitars if you are interested in acquiring one for your collection.
The 1965 Fender Jaguar Electric Guitar is a popular one amongst collectors. The first Fender Jaguar was released in 1962 and was based off of the Fender Jazzmasters from the 1950′s. The body of the Jaguar is alder and a maple neck with rosewood fretboard and may have pearl or clay dot markers.
Fender Jaguars come in a variety of custom color styles, though the most popular is the sunburst design. Other colors included olympic white, shell pink, black, candy apple red, lake placid blue, sonic blue, burgundy mist, fiesta red, shoreline gold, surf green, inca silver, blonde, and charcoal frost. These colors are extremely rare and difficult to find today.
In 1965, the price for a Fender Jaguar Electric guitar was around $430-$500 for one brand new. Today these collector vintage electric guitars value anywhere between $2000-$5000 depending on style and condition. Left handed Jaguars did exist in the 1960′s and are very rare now.
Here are some of the signature characteristics of Fender Jaguar Electric Guitars:
Brighter pickups with a shorter (24″) scale length.
Sliding pickup selector switches
Rotary volume wheels on the upper bout
Chrome hardware
Tremolo lock
Removable Fender Mute
Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain used a 1965 Fender Jaguar on several occasions as well as many other popular recording artists. The Jaguar was discontinued by Fender in 1975.
Many Fender Jaguars and parts and accessories are available on eBay. Some of the most recent listings are below for the Fender Jaguar: