Electric Guitars - electric

The legendary Custom Agent was legendary almost as soon as Ibanez premiered it, in 1973. At pains to show the world that Japan could build better guitars than America – not all that difficult at the time, with Gibson and Fender both at the very bottom of their game – the company cheekily “borrowed” from three of Gibson’s most famous designs, added their own, unique twist and a guitar for the ages was born. The Gibson models Ibanez borrowed from were the Les Paul, (body), the F-5 mandolin, (headstock shape), and the company’s famous 1920s era Style-5 Mastertone banjo, (the finger...

Sometimes your babies come home… We sold this guitar to a Melbourne musician several years back and it has remained literally untouched in his collection ever since - never removed from the case. Personal circumstances dictate that he now needs to part with some of his collection, so this incredible instrument is available once more to the Australian musician – again at its original sale price! We have re-printed the original listing text below, as nothing has changed, but we have re-photographed the guitar, showing it in all its minty-fresh glory*. Fender Stratocaster, Eric Cla...

The model 184 bass was produced by Hofner in Germany from 1974 to 1980, and appointments here indicate that this unit was probably built quite early in the production run, most likely during 1974 or early ’75. Clearly basing the looks on Fender’s world-conquering Jazz and Precision basses, the 184 falls stylistically somewhere between the two, while also retaining and updating certain aspects of Hofner’s own 182 and 185 models, both of which had been in production since the early sixties, but were now beginning to look somewhat dated. Although very Fender-like in appearance, ton...

Here’s two pretty cool, brand new guitars we procured this year for a couple of Just Guitars customers. The first is an Ernie Ball/Music Man John Petrucci signature model, in the fabulous ‘Mystic Dream’ finish, which changes from a rich metallic green to a deep purple/black, depending on how the light is hitting the guitar. Click on the headstock shot, (pic # 3), to see the color-change paint in all its transitional glory. The second guitar is a very special PRS model that we got in for one of our regular customers in Western Australia. An exclusive Private Stock Modern Eagle...

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$1830. That’s right - next year this USA Strat will be officially vintage, but it’s yours now for under two grand! This was one of the best sounding Teles we ran across on our last US buying trip, and having it plugged in again over the past couple of days has brought back the sheer delight in finding it that particular day in Portland, Oregon. The guitar has all the standard 1988 specs, with the solid Alder body weighing in at 7lb 14oz / 3.6kg, providing a nice resonance, with around 15 seconds of natural sustain. The body has been refinished in a Black sparkle, and the brid...

Wow! We take great pleasure in offering this incredible vintage guitar for sale: a top of the line, 1961 national ‘Val-Pro 84’, in absolutely stunning condition. Part of National’s so-called “map series”, (from an audience perspective, the body shape loosely resembles the outline of the continental USA), the Val-Pro models were unlike anything ever seen before, with thinline, semi-hollow bodies constructed from the still relatively new wonder material, fibreglass, (or “Res-O-Glas” as National branded it). Comprising two fibreglass body shells, joined around the edge by a flex...

This is the second of the Ron Sargent custom instruments that we picked up on our most recent US buying trip, and this one is an absolute doozy! From early days in the Morays, one of California’s original surf bands, Ron Sargent eventually ended up at the reborn Daneletro company, designing many of the modern Dano effects pedals, including the famous Dan-O-Wah, Sitar Swami and Wasabi, along with such acclaimed guitar models as the Innuendo and Hearsay, plus the Rumor bass. As shown by the picture to the right, Ron Sargent builds some extremely cool guitars! With a list of Sar...

Just Guitars is very pleased to offer this extraordinary and rare instrument to the Australian music community… Stewart Male was a Melbourne musician and guitar builder, whose instruments had acquired legendary status, long before his untimely death in 2004. Stewart Male enjoyed music success from an early age, beginning with his mid-sixties band Strings Unlimited, which featured the young John Farnham on lead vocals. (The group’s ‘I Feel Fine’ can be heard on John Farnham’s Anthology 3 collection) As handy at working on guitars as he was playing them, during the seventies Ma...

VOX. The name that countless artists have relied on, from the company’s world famous amps, introduced in 1957, to their equally famous guitar and bass range, debuting in 1961. Instruments and amps of such high quality that they were the brand of reliance for such ‘British Invasion’ acts as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Kinks, and American acts like James Brown, Willie Nelson and the Box Tops. The incredible worldwide success of those early British Invasion bands resulted in the Vox parent company, Jennings Musical Instruments, being unable to keep up with the sudden w...

We’ve only ever seen one single stray photo of this Teisco model before, so it’s hard to be 100% certain about its place in Teisco / Teisco Del Rey history. It’s most likely from the twelve to eighteen month period when the company had just been taken over by Kawai, during which time there were various short-lived new models and re-jigged current models, while the new owners tried to decide Teisco’s future direction. (At least as an ET-200 it adheres to the company’s standard model numbering system; E for electric, T for tremolo, 2 for two pickups) The almost unique pressed metal p...

Gibson’s Hawk series was introduced in 1993, beginning with the Night Hawk and followed by the Hawk and Blues Hawk in ’96. (Gibson themselves seemed unable to ever decide whether the spelling was Night Hawk, Nighthawk or NightHawk, Blues Hawk, Blueshawk or BluesHawk) There was a bewildering number of Night Hawk variations, (nine in all!), just one of the Hawk, while for a couple of years the Blues Hawk could be ordered with Gibson’s Maestro tremolo system. The public seemed not to care overly much for the Hawk and Night Hawk, with both disappearing by the new millennium. The Blues ...

Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg, Morrissey guitarist Boz Boorer and Robert Cray are just some of the famous names that own Ron Sargent guitars, and right before his death in 2009, Australia’s legendary Rowland S. Howard was in touch with Sargent, praising his work and looking forward to acquiring his own Sargent Kustom guitar. From early days in the Morays, one of California’s original surf bands, Ron Sargent eventually ended up at the reborn Daneletro company, designing many of the modern Dano effects pedals, including the famous Dan-O-Wah, Sitar Swami and Wasabi, along with such acclai...

Here’s an incredibly special PRS offering from Just Guitars – one of only twelve Custom 24s, exactingly recreated to the spec’s of the original 1985 model, right down to the famous Sweet Switch! One night back in 2010, Paul Reed Smith and one of his top Private Stock dealers were having dinner together, when his friend came up with a proposal: It was 25 years since the first Custom 24 model, they should do an exact, limited edition recreation of that 1985 model, using Paul’s private Timber Library woods, vintage parts, limited colors and the top-of-the-line Private Stock paisley...

Here’s the first of two killer “sitar guitars” we picked up in the US on our latest buying trip. This one was purpose-built from scratch, at one of Portland, Oregon’s best known pro shops, utilizing only premium components, with an outstanding result. First up, a hefty, solid Maple body – weighing 9lb 4oz / 4.2kg – was matched to a single-piece, Fender-licensed Maple neck by Allparts. The neck and board is one-piece, vintage tinted, with a rounded C-profile, 21 medium frets and a 7½” radius. Satin-finished, it plays very smoothly indeed. The body has been finished in Sky Blue...