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Crate Vintage Club 50 3X10 Amp
Year: 1996
Color: Tan
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Crate Vintage Club 50 3X10

Trace Elliot Bass Amp
Year: 1996
Color: Black
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Trace Elliot Bass

Mesa Boogie Nomad 45 4X10 Amp
Year: 2002
Color: Black
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Mesa Boogie Nomad 45 4X10

Gibson EB0 Bass
Year: 1969
Color: Burgandy
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This guitar was a mess when I first acquired it. The neck was bowed to hell. I traded a very old messed up Gibson acoustic to a luthier friend of mine to give this thing a neck reset. Now it plays and sounds like a dream.

 
Gibson EB0

Ampeg Stud Bass
Year: 197X
Color: Ash
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Someone left this guitar in my friend's garage. I traded him an old SCSI 2X CD burner for it. It sounds pretty good. It has it's place. It's made of about 20 layers of plywood and weighs a ton.


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Ampeg Stud

Ludwig Classic Maple Drums
Year: 2002
Color: Black Diamond Pearl
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This all maple kit is a dream to play. It sounds amazing. It was completely custom ordered. Including the mini classic lugs and virgin bass drum. All toms are suspended by Ludwig Vibra Bands attached to cymbal stands. The bass drum is deeper than the standard kit and has a lot of power.


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Ludwig Classic Maple

Gretsch Astro Jet Guitar
Year: 1965
Color: Red
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This is one of my favorite all time guitar designs. Many describe it as a Gibson SG on acid. It's hard to believe it was conceived in the mid '60's. Solid body, ebony neo-classic fingerboard, zero fret, burns vibrola, 4X2 tuners, and SuperTron pickups. It's great to play and sound wonderful clean.

 
Gretsch Astro Jet

Gretsch Roc Jet Guitar
Year: 1973
Color: Mercedes Black
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This is my baby. Semi-Hollow body, ebony neo-classic fingerboard, zero fret, raised pickguard, and SuperTron pickups. This guitar sounds amazing and feels the same.

 
Gretsch Roc Jet

Gretsch Committee Guitar
Year: 1978
Color: Walnut
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My first electric guitar. Neck through body, two humbuckers, smoke pickguard, and double cutaway. This thing is a great player but doesn’t sound as good as my other Gretschs.

 
Gretsch Committee

Martin D16A Guitar
Year: 1988
Color: Wood
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My first nice guitar. Mohogany fretboard, spruce top, ash back and sides. Very nice acoustic. A martin this nice will cost you twice what this one cost me in 1992. They don't make them like this anymore.


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Martin D16A

MEXICO ??? Guitar
Year: 198X
Color: Wood
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Arthritis struck my step-grandfather-in-law. So he gave me his old nylon string guitar. This guitar sounds much much better than it looks. It feels good too.


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MEXICO ???

Danelectro DC3 Guitar
Year: 2001
Color: Turquoise Sparkle
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Danelectro DC3

Epiphone Korina Flying V '58 Reissue Guitar
Year: 2007
Color: Korina Wood Natural
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My girlfriend bought me this guitar. It used to be on my wish list. One more down. Many more to go. It feels and sounds great. Pretty much like any dual humbucker Gibson.

 
Epiphone Korina Flying V

Gibson Firebird V Guitar
Year: Modern
Color: Polaris White
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The Gibson Firebird V Electric Guitar features classic offset body styling and neck-through-body design for increased sustain and solid attack. The body is 9-ply mahogany/walnut with mahogany wings, bound rosewood fingerboard with trapezoid inlay, high-output mini humbuckers at the bridge and neck, 2 volume and 2 tone controls, a 3-way switch, and chrome hardware. My wife gave this to me for Christmas 2008!

 
Gibson Firebird V

Gretsch Americana (Sundown Serenade) Guitar
Year: Modern
Color: Wood with Painted Design
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Cool old '50s style 3/4 size steel string guitar. It looks like something you would have gotten as a ten-year-old kid in the '50s

 
Gretsch Americana (Sundown Serenade)

Musser Mallets Misc
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Cool Mallets

 
Musser Mallets

Vern Oldham Pelc Dux Pedal
Year: 2001
Color: Black
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I built this makeshift Talk Box out of a plastic project box from radio shack, some old computer speakers, a quarter inch jack, a brass nozzle, and a tube from Home Depot. It doesn't have the power of a store bought talk box but I get by on it.

 
Vern Oldham Pelc Dux

Vern Oldham Jo Mo Lo Pedal
Year: 2003
Color: Green
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1960s Kay tremelo replica. Speed and bypass controls only.

 
Vern Oldham Jo Mo Lo

Vern Oldham Sweet B'Jenkins Pedal
Year: 2003
Color: Pink
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Brian May inspired treble boost replica. Sounds nice.


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Vern Oldham Sweet B

Vern Oldham Screaming B'Jenkins Pedal
Year: 2003
Color: Light Blue
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MXR Distortion Plus replica. It screams.


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Vern Oldham Screaming B

Vern Oldham FuzzDown Pedal
Year: 2007
Color: Brown
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This is my favorite novelty pedal. Some of its possibilities are useful but it is just soooo fun to play with. It is a Tychobrahe Octovia clone. The Octovia sound was made famous by Jimi Hendrix. This is my first full featured pedal with battery, power adapter capable, and input jack power switching. I love this thing.


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Vern Oldham FuzzDown

Wurlitzer 160A Piano
Year: 1965
Color: Tan
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Wurlitzer 160A

Rhodes 54 Piano
Year: 1981
Color: Black
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Rhodes 54

RME Hammerfall 9636 Studio Equipment
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Behringer AD8000 Studio Equipment
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Presonus Digimax LE Studio Equipment
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AKG D112 Studio Equipment
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AKG D112

Audix i5 Studio Equipment
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Audix i5

Heil PR-20 Studio Equipment
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Heil  PR-20

Oktava MC012 Studio Equipment
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Rode NT1 Studio Equipment
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Rode  NT1

Sennheiser E609 Silver Studio Equipment
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Sennheiser E609 Silver

Sure SM57 Studio Equipment
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TOA 15 inch Loudspeaker Studio Equipment
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TOA 15 inch Loudspeaker

Mackie Big Knob Studio Equipment
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M-Audio BX8 Studio Equipment
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Auditronics 110D Studio Equipment
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Auditronics  110D

Joe Meek VC3Q Studio Equipment
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Cakewalk Sonar 7 Producer Edition Studio Equipment
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Guild S100 Polara Wishlist
Year: 1964
Color: Red
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Great design.

 
Guild S100 Polara

Fender Highway One Telecaster Wishlist
Year: Modern
Color: Black
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Fat frets and hot alnico-magnet single-coils equip this Highway One Telecaster electric guitar so that it's music to your ears, candy for your eyes, and butter under your fingers. The new pickups on the Highway One Telecaster guitar produce a more round sound with that great Fender sparkle; it also has great high-gain sounds. Vintage-style bridge sports barrel saddles on an alder body with maple neck. Ultra-light satin nitro finish lets the wood breathe and ages sweetly.

 
Fender Highway One Telecaster

Gibson Les Paul Traditional Wishlist
Year: Modern
Color: Desert Burst
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Classic Les Paul. Not my favorite guitar but everyone needs at least one Les Paul.

 
Gibson Les Paul Traditional

Gibson SG Classic Wishlist
Year: Modern
Color: Red
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The SG Classic features an all-mahogany body, dual P-90 pickups and bound Dot inlayed fingerboard, the SG Classic fills the missing link in Gibson's hotter-than-ever SG arsenal.

 
Gibson SG Classic

Gretsch Silver Falcon Wishlist
Year: Modern
Color: Mercedes Black
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The Gretsch Guitars G6136TSL Silver Falcon Electric Guitar with Bigsby uses dual High Sensitive FilterTron pickups on a unique hollowbody construction with small tone bars to deliver jangle, bite, or solid round tones with equal facility. Laminated maple top, back, and sides with 3-piece maple neck are adorned with an ebony fretboard; chromeplated hardware; silver-sparkle headstock inlays; unique silver pickguard with acrylic top and falcon monogram; full silver-sparkle body, neck, and headstock binding; and finely crafted hump block mother-of-pearl fretboard inlays with feather engraving. The Space-Control roller bridge with ebony base keeps the massive chromeplated Bigsby from putting your Gretsch Silver Falcon out of tune.

 
Gretsch Silver Falcon

Gretsch Duo Jet Wishlist
Year: Modern
Color: Mercedes Black
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The Gretsch G6128T Duo Jet is a classic that traces its lineage to the earliest days of rock music. Similar to models of the late '50s, today's Duo Jet features dual High Sensitive Filtertron pickups, tone switch circuitry, ebony fingerboard with thumbnail inlays, Space Control bridge, and a G trapeeze tailpiece.

 
Gretsch Duo Jet

Martin HD28V Wishlist
Year: Modern
Color: Spruce
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Vintage Series model, Indian rosewood & Sitka spruce body with ivoroid binding & herringbone top trim, modified V-shape neck (1-11/16" wide at nut), scalloped bracing (X crosses 1" below soundhole), ebony fretboard with diamond & square inlays, ebony bridge with long saddle, small maple bridge plate, Martin nickel Butterbean open tuning gears. Gloss body finish, aging toner on top, bevelled & polished tortoise pickguard.

 
Martin HD28V