NOTES: B&S= back and sides,  whc= with hard case, , wsc= with soft-shell case, OHC=original hard case; Condition: Ex=excellent or 90-94%, near mint; VG+=very good plus or about 80-85%, light exterior wear with a few minor dings but no paint chips exposing the wood, nothing really serious, nice overall shape; VG= Very Good to Average, 70-75% more serious exterior wear that could include some major gouges exposing the wood, arm wear, fret wear; Good to Sub Average= 60-50%,Noticeable wear on most areas, normally consisting of some major belt buckle wear & finish deterioration , may include cracking, possible repairs or alterations, when this condition is encountered, normally an instrument should have all logos intact, original pickups, minor headstock damage, and perhaps a few non-serious alterations, with or w/o original case. The Condition ratings were derived from Blue Book Pub's.  » MORE BLUE BOOK INFO CLICK HERE!

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RESOPHONIC (resonator) GUITARS; 
Followed by HAWAIIAN GUITARS (Lap Guitars) & ARCHTOP GUITARS 

note, all instruments with our shop adjustment, unless otherwise noted!

Regal Black Lightning RD-52, $695 ($895 list) Go to saga's site to see the Guitar Player Review and see pictures. The Guitar Player review essentially said that it is an instrument "offering much of the magic" of those costing in the $3,000 price range, I agree.   Saga's factory blurb follows: 
   Here’s a new Regal Dobro with plenty of power and drive to cut through any traffic! There is no better value in a professional quality squareneck Dobro on the market today. Features include a Quarterman cone, a feature not found on any other production dobro as standard equipment, and a 1930s Vintage California-style body shape. With the Regal Black Lightning...RD-52...you are sure to hear the thunder!

• Ivoroid bound 1930s Vintage California-style body shape constructed of mahogany
• All solid ivoroid bound mahogany neck · Finished in a beautiful, high-gloss translucent black
• Traditional block & stinger neck/body joint · Rosewood fingerboard with mother-of-pearl position markers
• The headstock is adorned with a unique and · original inlay of the "Black Lightning" stunningly done in abalone and pearl
• Rock maple, trapezoid relieved, soundwell · Factory equiped with Quarterman cone
• Nickel-plated hardware · Bone nut and maple saddle · Shop adjusted

LAP OR HAWAIIAN GUITARS
go here» for electric lap steel

Weissenborn by Goldtone $750 whc (ON LEFT)
A VERY NICE, AND LIGHTWEIGHT, COPY OF THE ORIGINAL, VERY IMPRESSIVE!
NOTE AS WARM AS THE OLD ONE, BUT NOT 80 YEARS OLD EITHER! 

KAY ARCHTOP $249, ALL MAHOGANY, LAMINATED CONSTRUCTION, 80% CONDITION, EXCELLENT PLAYABIILTY AND GOOD WARM AND BRIGHT TONE!

ACOUSTIC  ARCH TOP F-HOLE GUITARS  
 followed by ELECTRIC ARCHTOP HOLLOWBODIES

DJANGO GITANE GUITARS, SELMER-MACCAFERRI COPIES, SEE »NEW GUITARS

FRAMUS SORELLA ARCHTOP $250 » pic here!
CUTAWAY, CHERRY SUNBURST FINISH. VG PLAYABLE CONDITION, BUT PAINT FLAKING ON SIDES.

Silvertone Archtop $279 Circa 1950, nice tone and very playable action! » pics here!
A really nice sounding archtop for a cheap price, the neck is not too thick either!

1939 Vega C-66 $1050 By the time Elmer Stromberg started building guitars in Boston, the Vega Company had been making instruments in that city for over a generation. One of the preeminent banjo manufacturers, Vega introduced its first archtop in 1933, and continued making top-flight hand carved instruments for several decades. The Vega C-66 was an upmarket model equivalent to the Gibson L-12 or Epiphone Broadway, and priced accordingly. This instrument is an outstanding example from their prime years, with a solid handcarved bookmatched spruce top and handsome tiger flame maple back and sides, and a really interesting wooden tailpiece .

THE LOAR LH-600-VS Hand-Carved Archtop Acoustic Guitar w/featherweight hard case, $749 ($1200 LIST)  » PICS HERE (of a similar one). A FACTORY BLEM, A KNOT THE SIZE OF A  PENCIL LEAD ON THE BACK, WAS THE ONLY BLEMISH I COULD FIND, OTHERWISE IN PERFECT CONDITION, PROBABLY WON'T LAST LONG AT THIS PRICE! 

ELECTRIC ARCHTOP HOLLOWBODY GUITARS

Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin P90 $599 ($850 list), Natural color. see more here
"Made from Canadian Wild Cherry, the body of the 5th Avenue features a molded arched top and back, as well as an adjustable bridge, classic f-holes, contoured high-gloss headstock, floating pickguard and cream binding. Also, the rustic beauty of its Custom Polished Finish creates a gorgeous satin sheen reminiscent of the French polish of the 19th century. The new Godin Kingpin P90 single-coil pickup delivers all that classic, vintage tone with presence, clarity and a little attitude thrown in for good measure!"

Greg Bennet JZ 2 LaSalle by Samick $599, exc. ($1100 list )
 Vintage Sunburst, as in the pic of the spruce top » here

LARRY CORYELL CORT $799 ($1495 List) mint condition! 
seymour duncan pickups, flame maple b&s, a great price for mint condition!

LARRY CORYELL CORT $599 ($1495 List) 85% OR VG+! 
seymour duncan pickups, flame maple b&s, ALSO a great price !

EASTMAN STRINGS JAZZ GUITARS AR910CE, with P.U., cutaway, and block inlays, $2500 
bENEDETTO QUALITY AT 1/10TH THE COST!» pics here
MADE IN CHINA BY THE SAME LUTHIERS WHO MAKE THEIR CELLOS (UP 'TILL THIS TIME eASTMAN WAS ONLY HANDLING VIOLIN FAMILY INSTRUMENTS). sINCE THE LUTHIERS' SKILLS ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME (CARVING THE TOP AND THE BACK), AS IN CELLO CONSTRUCTION, THESE INSTRUMENTS ARE OF EXCELLENT QUALITY IN SPITE OF THE SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME THAT THEY HAVE BEEN IN CONSTRUCTION! JUST JAZZ MAGAZINE HAS GIVEN THEM VERY FAVORABLE REVIEWS! THEIR WEB: » http://www.eastmanguitars.com/

SOLD GUITARS

ARIA DIAMOND Thinline Electric hollowbody 12 string semi-acoustic $249
A thinline body with 2 pickups and selector switch, in very good condition, thin neck! would fit a 335 case (at our cost w/purchase-$55) SOLD

CUSTOM KRAFT SEMI-HOLLOWBODY THINLINE $425, VGC 80% » pics here SOLD
in great shape, nice neck! 2 pickups! nice green sunburst, with the flame maple back showing nicely through the finish!

DeARMOND Guild X-155, Ex. Cond.! $595, nice archtop case too! 1 DE ARMOND PICKUP in bridge and Duncan '59 in neck. 

THE UPTOWN AR810CE, SOLD $1,899($2,495 LIST), CUTAWAY WITH ONE PICKUP, WHICH WE HAVE IN STOCK, WITH THE DELUXE FIBER GLASS CASE (AVAILABLE SEPARATELY FOR $225, IN A VARIETY OF COLORS). IT'S A 17” fully appointed carved f hole archtop cutaway jazz guitar, 1 11/16'' neck, 25'' scale, fully carved, accurately graduated aged spruce top with f holes, beautifully carved solid flame maple back and sides with a violin varnish  (a French Polish). Floating Kent Armstrong pickup WITH thumb wheel volume control, hidden at the edge of the ebony pick guard! CLICK HERE FOR GUITAR AND CASE » pic here!

GUILD SAVOY X-150 1999 $1095,VG+ OR 95% NATURAL FINISH. SINGLE CUTAWAY AND SINGLE-COIL PICKUP, W/OHC! FULL DEPTH. SOLD

GIBSON ES 137 CLASSIC $1250, MINT CONDITION, WHC AND PAPERS SOLD

THE HERITAGE EAGLE, 2001 MINT, WHC, $1495. Made in Kalamazoo by many of the same folks who made Gibsons! SOLD

Kawai $259
2 P.U.'s nice thin and narrow neck, VG+ condition SOLD

HARMONY BROADWAY SOLD $295, AND 
HARMONY PATRICIAN $325, ARCHTOP ACOUSTIC GUITARS SOLD
THE BROADWAY IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION! THE PATRICIAN (LEFT IN PICS) HAS THE MOST RESONANT AND WARMEST TONE OF THE TWO. THE PATRICIAN IS IN GOOD, OR 80% CONDITION, SOME REPAIRS, BUT WELL DONE ONES. BOTH OF THESE PLAY WELL AND HAVE GOOD ARCHTOP VOLUME.

JOHNSON RESOPHONIC "DOBRO", round neck $229, VG+ condition, cherry sunburst finish
WOOD BODY » pic here!SOLD

GIBSON L48 1953, $800, SOLD GC 80% PICS SOON! » pics here  
IN VERY GOOD SHAPE FOR 50 YEARS OLD! HAS A REALLY NICE TONE AND EXCELLENT NECK.  USUAL WEAR, NO REPAIRS, HAS A REPLACEMENT SET OF sCHALLER TUNERS (AN UPGRADE AS FAR AS TUNERS GO!). 
A VERY NICE GUITAR AND ONE WE DON'T GET VERY OFTEN! THE UPPER FRETS (OVER THE BODY) HAVE BEEN FILED (BY SOME FOOL WHO DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A TRUSS ROD WAS FOR) TO GAIN LOWER ACTION. SINCE ONE DOESN'T USUALLY PLAY THOSE FRETS ON A NON-CUTAWAY GUITAR ANYWAY, IT REALLY DOESN'T HURT THE PLAYABILITY. THE FRETS IN GENERAL ARE GETTING A BIT ON THE LOW SIDE, NOT GROOVED, JUST LOW, THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN MILLED, SO AT SOME POINT THEY'LL NEED TO BE REPLACED. I WOULD CHARGE ONLY $80 (TO THE BUYER OF THIS GUITAR)  ANYTIME IT WAS DONE

KAY/NATIONAL STYLE RESOPHONIC W/NATIONAL BISCUIT BRIDGE RESONATOR $450,NO NAME BUT SURELY IS A KAY WITH NATIONAL RESOPHONIC PARTS! (NATIONAL METAL PARTS, BODY AND NECK MADE BY KAY, WHO MADE BODIES FOR NATIONAL!) great tone and volume!! biscuit bridge type SOLD resonator. it was a spanish neck but due to poor neck angle it's now a lap model, and it's probably better this way anyway since the neck wasn't exactly slim! has the perfect nut extender over the nut. this one really does have an especially ballsy tone, as good as any national PROBABLY BECAUSE IS IS A NATIONAL)! » pics here  

KAY ARCHTOP THINLINE SEMI-ACOUSTIC $350, VGC, 80%SOLD
SINGLE CUTAWAY, 1 P.U., DOT INLAYS, NICE WARM TONE PLUGGED IN!

Regal Archtop roundhole, circa 1930's, like a Martin C-1! $1195, This one sounds as good as a Martin too! It has that great synthesis of the archtop and flattop sound, warm and bright! SOLD 

REGAL ARCHTOP ACOUSTIC F-HOLE $350, » pics here 
GOOD CONDITION, SOME SCRATCHING OF THE FINISH, BUT OVERALL NICE LOOKING FOR SUCH AN OLD ONE. MEDIUM SIZE, NICE BRIGHT TONE, AND WARMTH TOO.SOLD

DOBRO D60 S, 1979, $899, VGC+ OR 90% SQUARE NECK, SUNBURST, NICE WARM TONE!  1 SMALL DING ON BACK OF NECK NEAR NUT AREA, OTHERWISE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION AND LOOKS VERY NICE OVERALL!!» pic here! SOLD

EPIPHONE JOE PASS W/Bartolini neck P.U. $475, Ex. Cond. SOLD

JOE PASS EMPEROR II $550, EX. COND. SOLD

EPIPHONE DOT $399, EX. COND., 95%! BLONDE FINISH SOLD 

EPIPHONE TRIUMPH 1939, W/DeARMOND 3 POSITION FLOATING NECK PICKUP & CORD, SOLID MAPLE, SUNBURST $1095 pic here! SOLD

FRAMUS SORELLA, Circa 1960, GC $250  » pic here!SOLD
IN GOOD STRUCTURAL SHAPE, SOME FLAKING OF THE FINISH ON SIDES. NICE THIN NECK.

EPIPHONE (GIBSON) CENTURY, 1961, SOLD THINLINE ELECTRIC ARCHTOP $775, VGC+ 1 P-90 P.U. , LOGO PLATE ON HEADSTOCK, SUNBURST, ORIGINAL EXCEPT FOR TUNING MACHINES, NECK EXCELLENT, FAST AND THIN! » PICS here!

GUILD STARFIRE VI, CIRCA 1968, EXC! $1590  » SEE PICS HERE!  ONLY MODIFICATION IS BIGSBY TREMOLO BRIDGE REMOVED, NICE CLEAN REMOVAL! THE WOOD ON THE TOP AND BACK HAS JUST AMAZING GRAIN, WAVY GRAVY TO THE MAX! THE GUITAR HAS LITTLE WEAR, AND IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY BEAUTIFUL PIECE, EBONY FINGERBOARD AND NICE INLAYS! SOLD

Godin Multiac Jazz, whc, shaped archtop. SOLD  
» CLICK HERE TO GO TO GODIN, and see pics and specs !
Here's an interesting quote from Godin "At first glance the 'Jazz' has a familiar look with its single cutaway chambered body adorned with traditional F-holes and the Godin GJN1 mini humbucker at the top of the fingerboard. However the slotted headstock and the preamp controls on the upper bout may be the first clues towards discovering that this isn't your grandfather's jazz guitar." Our guitar teacher played it and really likes the neck and the sound! (not to mention all the extra goodies).

GRETSCH ARCHTOP ACOUSTIC $550  Nicely Refinished! SOLD  
An all solid, flame maple back and sides, guitar! Has a really nice warm and bright sound. The neck is really straight and a bit on the chunky side, if one wanted a thin neck, that could easily be done. Judging by the filled holes, there was a different bridge and tailpiece at some point. SOLD

GIBSON ES135 $995, mint! SOLD 
 
HARMONY MONTERREY soldcirca 1940 $425 SOLD    In very good condition, A large archtop, and lightweight, with a very nice neck!

JOHNSON TRICONE JM-991 $499 ($824 list)  SOLD

• 9.5"Aluminum resonator MORE INFO »HERE
  • Nickel-Plated Bell Brass • Honduran Mahogany Neck
  • Sealed Die-Cast Tuners • Rosewood Fretboard
  • T-Bridge with Maple Saddle • 3 x 6" Hand Spun Continental Cones  

KUSTOMCRAFT BY KAY $425  » SOLD GUITAR PICS
A very nice lightweight medium sized arch top with a really good sound! SOLD  

DOBRO MODEL 66, 1981 $799 SOLD  » SOLD GUITAR PICS

 Dobro "Original Hound Dog" $550, Fishman passive pickup inside, case extra, used but mint shape.  Made in USA at an Affordable Price

Godin Multiac Jazz, whc, shaped archtop. SOLD     
» CLICK HERE TO GO TO GODIN, and see pics and specs !
Here's an interesting quote from Godin "At first glance the 'Jazz' has a familiar look with its single cutaway chambered body adorned with traditional F-holes and the Godin GJN1 mini humbucker at the top of the fingerboard. However the slotted headstock and the preamp controls on the upper bout may be the first clues towards discovering that this isn't your grandfather's jazz guitar." Our guitar teacher played it and really likes the neck and the sound! (not to mention all the extra goodies).

GUILD SAVOY X150 $1195, MINT! SOLD  » pic here!
LIKE NEW! ABOUT 6 YEARS OLD, WITH ORIGINAL MANUAL. CASE $50 EXTRA

NATIONAL DUOLIAN 1937, 12 FRET SQUARE NECK, vgc+ or 90%, $1495, FROSTED PAINT FINISH, BROWN » pic here! SOLD SQUARE NECK HAWAIIAN, PROBABLY REFINISHED, GREAT TONE! VERY GOOD OVERALL CONDITION, we rarely get any like this one!

NATIONAL COLLEGIAN, 1942, METAL BODY BISCUIT BRIDGE, $1500  SOLD 
HAS BEEN REFINISHED, ACTION IS SLIGHTLY HIGH, BUT GOOD FOR BOTTLENECK PLAYING,
THE SOUND IS BIG AND AWESOME! THERE IS A SMALL FRACTURE OF THE SEAM AT LOWER WAIST, WILL BE FIXED SOON.

Orpheum Deluxe  SOLD $450 Circa 1930's, by Rettburg & Lange, VGC » pic here!
2 SMALL REPAIRED CRACKS, 1 ON FRONT (FROM F-HOLE TO LOWER END), AND 1 ON BACK (VISIBLE IN PIC), OTHERWISE IN VERY GOOD SHAPE! THE NECK IS NICE AND STRAIGHT AND NECK ANGLE GOOD AS WELL! NUT WIDTH=1 3/4"  LOWER BOUT=16"
A VERY NICE SOUNDING GUITAR!

SILVERTONE 335 TYPE $279» pic here! SOLD 
VG+ CONDITION. NEW DANELECTRO PICKUPS, AND NEW DIECAST TUNING MACHINES

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