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KayKraft Style A
By: Michael Wright, The Different Strummer
Posted On: 7/3/2008
1933 KayKraft Style A. Photo: Michael Wright.
Almost any guitar can be viewed in terms of a confluence of influences that produced it, from the company history to the history of guitar evolution to the kind of music it was meant to play. But it’s rare that you get one so fully loaded as this circa... Read Full Story
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The 1960’s – An Era of Change
Ah, the
1960’s…the rise of surf music, the loss of 1950’s rock icons and across the Big
Pond an interest in and resurgence of American blues music will soon give rise
to the British Invasion and some of our future guitar legends.
The guitar
manufacturers were also undergoing some changes themselves and as research and
development plodded forward, These changes were reflected in the guitars... Read Full Story
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Ray Benson’s Gibson ES-355
By: Teisco Del Rey
Posted On: 8/12/2008
Photo: Dale Haussner.
Anyone with a taste for real country music - in particular, Western swing - will recognize the guitar pictured here. Even though Asleep At The Wheel leader Ray Benson quit using this early-’60s Gibson ES-355 in about 1985 (and eventually sold it), it’s the guitar fans inevitably associate with him - and, with a Lone Star Beer... Read Full Story
By: M.E. Bruné
Posted On: 6/19/2008
Circa 1850 James Ashborn guitar. All photos: M. E. Brune.
James Ashborn was born in England circa 1816 and came to New England in the late 1830s, for reasons unknown. He landed in the a small woodworking town of Torrington, 30 miles northwest of Harvard, Connecticut. Because of the area’s many mills, many woodworking shops were emerging. Torrington was primarily a wagon-making community, and had a plentiful wood supply, as well as ease... Read Full Story
Our site was recognized on Webwire, which is a huge press release site, for an article we published regarding Vintage Guitars as an Investment. You can read the article on Vintage Guitar Zone under the “Investing” link, on the left side of the main page ( http://www.vintageguitarzone.com ).
The story is covered here:
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Gibson Es-300 ( 1940-1953 )
The gibson es-300 guitar was introduced in mid 1940 as a new upgrade for their electric guitars . The guitar shared much of its features of its predecessor ( es-250 ) and also had similar style hardware & features of the gibson l-5 & the gibson l-12 .
What made the gibson es-300 different from other pre war guitars was the electronics and look of its new style pickups . Gibson made 3 versions of basically the same model with 3 different pickup variations... Read Full Story
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IF YOU’VE ever noticed your jaw drop while listening to a guitar solo by the likes of B.B. King or Stevie Ray Vaughan, you surely can appreciate the value of vintage guitars.
But whoever thought that the instrument musicians call the axe could rival stocks, vintage cars or in some cases houses as great investments... Read Full Story
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Anchorage Capital Partners (”ACP”) (a Mercantile Investment Group company) recently reported to the Financial Times that it is preparing to launch a closed-end fund which will invest in the rare and vintage guitar market . The US$100 million fund is to be listed on the Channel Island Stock Exchange (CISX) in Euros for a 10-year term.
According to ACP, the vintage guitar market has outperformed traditional markets ever since it has been... Read Full Story
Well the old ad age that "everything old is new again "can certainly be said regarding the guitar market. How this relates to popular trends is evident in the resurrection of N.O.S and reissue guitars that have flooded the market. Not that reissue guitars are anything new mind you,Fender reissued 60's styled guitars as early as the mid 80's with reasonable success. But the surge has hit an all time high mainly due (I believe anyway) to the fact that a lot of working,gigging and weekend... Read Full Story
