With its Graffiti Yellow nitrocellulose finish, slab Madagascar rosewood fretboard, 1960 Strat pickups wired to its original three-way switch and collector-condition presentation, this Custom Shop 1960 NOS Strat is a spectacular Fender. It’s in near-mint condition with barely a breath of playwear to the frets and finish, and has been set-up in our shop, too. <br/><br/>
Alder body with semi-transparent finish, three ply white guard with aluminum pickguard shield, and staggered-pole custom shop pickups. Flat-sawn maple neck with AAA-dark rosewood fretboard, 7.25 radius and vintage-sized wire. <br/><br/>
Oval C neck carve, 1-5/8” nut, .788” 1st fret neck depth, .941” 12th fret neck depth, 7.6lbs. The pickups measure 5.8k, 5.8k, and 5.7k.<br/><br/>
With all original case-candy, COA and original brown G+G hardshell case.
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With its Dakota Red lacquer finish, cool pearloid pickguard, and pre-CBS clay dot rosewood fretboard, this 1964 Fender Musicmaster II checks off a lot of boxes. It’s a great looking guitar, and one that’s a lot of fun to play. The Jaguar-scale neck is small and fast, the solid bridge offers way better tuning stability than the trem version, it’s super-light weight, and the pickup sounds great.
This Fender Musicmaster II is a completely original guitar with an L-prefix serial number. The pots date to the 22nd week of 1964, and the neck is dated August of 1964. The neck has an A-width of 1.5” and a 1st fret depth of .785”. The scale is 24” and neck depth tapers up to .960 at the 12th fret. The pickup DC resistance measures 5.8k, which happens to also be what the guitar weighs at, in lbs.
In great shape, this Fender Musicmaster II shows a bit of playwear to its frets and finish, but nothing extreme. It’s been set-up in-shop and plays easily and cleanly.
With 1970s hardshell case
Folkway Music is a different kind of guitar store. Owing largely to the fact that its owner, Mark Stutman, has a relentless obsession for quality in every aspect of the store. Consequently, Folkway Music is wholeheartedly committed to offering our clients the absolute best. Our instrument quality and genuine care for our customer’s experience are unrivalled. Have a look at our client testimonials, they say it better than we can, without a doubt!
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A modern and creative take on Fender’s iconic design, this limited run 2019 Rarities Series Telecaster features a chambered body made of premium tonewoods, vintage voiced pickups, and a 22 fret neck with a 9.5″ fingerboard radius. All together these specs make for an incredibly lightweight and resonant guitar that offers classic Fender tone and modern playability. The guitar is in excellent condition with almost no playwear to speak of and has just been set-up in our shop.
Outfitted with a flat pole Hot Vintage-Style Telecaster pickup (7.67K) in the bridge position, the guitar offers a wonderfully full-bodied and warm classic Tele voice that is complemented beautifully by the rich and dynamic tones of the Shawbucker 1T wide-range humbucker (6.88K) in the neck position. The overwound bridge pickup balances perfectly with the neck position humbucker, in a configuration that corrects the output mismatch that was an issue on vintage Telecasters.
With a modern C neck profile, narrow-tell frets and modern fretboard radius, the guitar delivers the impeccable performance that players have come to expect from high-end electric guitars. The nut measures 1-11/16”, the neck depth at the 1st fret is .815” and thickens slightly to 0.867” at the 12th fret. 25.5″ Scale length. 6lbs 9oz.
with original hardshell case.
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About this 1924 Gibson TL-1 Conversion
The Tenor Lute, made by Gibson in 1924, has the distinction of being the company’s only A-style instrument bearing a Master Model label. It’s anybody’s guess as to why an off-script long-necked four-string tenor instrument would be granted entry to the high court of Gibson’s Master Model Pantheon. It wouldn’t take much longer than a minute or two of time with an original unconverted Gibson TL-1 to realize its lack lustre sonic performance, but have a modern master-builder craft a replacement 8 string mandola-scale neck for the TL body, and the resulting tone is instantly magical.<br/><br/>
This 1924 Gibson Tenor Lute was brilliantly converted into a Snakehead Mandola by Canadian west-coast builder, Jamie Weins. Jamie is famous for his next level craftsmanship, Loar-period F-5 Reproductions, and his exquisite finish work. He is among the most lauded mandolin builders of this generation. This conversion was completed about a decade back, we’ve been told. The new neck is built with a Loar-period Snakehead design, and the transition from the original body to the new neck is seamless. If you didn’t know what you were looking at it might be possible to think that this was an original 1920’s Gibson-made instrument that happens to still be in incredible condition. You’d not be wrong, except that the neck is new.<br/><br/>
The neck is cut from beautifully figure maple and features and ivoroid-bound ebony fingerboard with vintage-style small frets and no radius. The bound headstock sports an abalone Fleur-de-Lys and pearl logo, arrowhead tuners, and a very mid-20’s looking truss rod cover. The fretwork is top-notch, and Jamie didn’t miss any details in the neck’s carve, alignment, finish, and looks.<br/><br/>
The instrument’s scale is 16.5” and tuning is CGDA. The nut measures 1-1/4”, and string spacing at the bridge is 1-3/8”. The neck has a soft V/U carve with a 1st fret depth of .840”.<br/><br/>
A wonderfully rich and resonant Mandola, expect a strong fundamental with sweet and expressive mids, articulate lows, and rounded trebles. There’s enough jangle to appeal to a Celtic-style player, and enough cut for Appalachian tinged fiddle tunes.<br/><br/>
The instrument is in excellent condition with very few flaws. The body’s original finish is beautifully preserved, and the neck’s modern finish has a patina that matches the body remarkably perfectly. It has been set up in-shop with EJ-72 D’Addario strings and an action of 3.5-5 64ths.<br/><br/>
With modern hardshell case.
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The early 1950s saw the popularization of the solid-body electric guitar with the release of the Fender’s Telecaster (née Broadcaster) in 1950, and the Gibson’s Les Paul Model in 1952. Seeing the success of these new electric models, Gretsch responded by unveiling the 6128 Duo Jet in mid 1953. While the Duo Jet presents as a single-cutaway solid body guitar much like Gibson’s Les Paul Model, the Gretsch featured a chambered mahogany body with an arched plywood top. It’s a much lighter guitar than a Les Paul, with a semi-hollow response and sustain.
Gretsch’s black Duo Jet has become one of the most iconic electric guitar designs birthed in the 1950s. It’s found its way into the hands of countless guitarists in just about every genre imaginable. An excellent example of a Duo Jet from early in the Filter’tron period, this 1959 model features late 1958 specs including a standard nut rather than the zero fret that was introduced for 1959. The guitar remains in largely original condition. It has a fresh set of frets installed by our repair shop and reproduction Waverly tuners which replaced non-original Schallers that were previously installed on the headstock. The electronics, tailpiece, bridge, pickguard and finish are all original.
Sporting a pair of original Patent Applied For Filter’Trons (3.93K in the neck and 3.96k in the bridge) this guitar sounds absolutely spectacular, offering a sweet midrange and note clarity that give the suggestion of a single coil, while delivering the power and rich dynamics of a humbucker. Refretted with 0.080″/0.040″ wire, the guitar plays effortlessly. The neck has a rounded, fast and comfortable carve that measures 0.802″ deep at the first fret and 0.938″. The nut width measures 1-11/16”.
Added up, this guitar’s flaws are few and fairly insignificant. Small screwholes from non-original tuners have been plugged but are visible. There is a section of separated binding at the bass-side waist that’s too tight to glue back flush, and there is a repaired chip in the headstock face behind the nut.
It’s a great sounding, playing, and looking vintage Gretsch.
With modern Gretsch hardshell case.
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One of ten Sarah Ryan custom painted 2022 Iris limited release guitars, this Iris AB Sarah Ryan features handpainted artwork overtop a black-finished AB model with white bindings and pickguard. Sarah Ryan is a Burlington, Vermont based visual artist who has gained renown in the guitar world for her work with Creston Guitars, also of Burlington. Sarah Ryan’s painted Crestons have something of a cult-like following and are gracing stages all over the world with high-level guitarists of all kinds. Her work with Iris Guitars is limited to 10 unique painted flat-tops a year; and we ordered this custom AB, complete with white accents as one of these 10. (If you’re wondering, Iris Guitars founder Adam Buchwald shared shop space with Creston Lee for a number of years before moving to a larger facility in 2020).
A beautiful guitar with the AB’s incredible warmth and string balance, super-light built, and excellent playability. Mahogany and spruce with scalloped/tapered X bracing, 25” scale, 1-11/16” nut and 2.2” string spread at the saddle.
With TKL Deluxe hardshell case
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Hand built in a small-shop setting in Burlington, Vermont, Iris Guitars offer exceptional tone and playability, vintage-tinged designs and unique detailing, solid tonewoods, and nitrocellulose lacquer finish. <br/><br/>
The DF model is a slope-shouldered dreadnought with a body shape and tonality that’s not unlike a late 40’s J-45, but with the added power and note separation that rosewood adds to a guitar. Built with a new old-stock Sitka spruce top from Guild’s Westerly, RI factory that’s been aging naturally since the last millennium, the guitar has an unequivocally ‘aged’ voice already. It features a gorgeous Indian rosewood back and side set, a small rectangle bridge, and scalloped tonebars with a tapered X brace. With a medium length scale and light build, the DF offers huge volume and headroom, plenty of warmth and openness, a little bit of thump, and well-balanced trebles. The aged Sitka top gives the guitar a whole lot of dry, vintage snap, and helps bring out a beautiful overtone pallet. <br/><br/>
Dressed up with a deco firestripe pickguard, ivoroid bindings and sunburst top finish, three-on-a-plate Golden Age open geared tuners, and simplified Iris headstock logo, the DF model is simultaneously both familiar and strikingly different. <br/><br/>
Round neck with a distinctly 1950s Gibson C carve, .885” first fret depth, 1-11/16” nut width, 16” fingerboard radius, and a 1-11/16” nut width. Bone nut and saddle, 25” scale, 2-1/4” string spread at the bridge. Rosewood fingerboard and bridge. <br/><br/>
