Fender Stratocaster (1979, Natural Wood)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 20/12/2018
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Here a Fender USA guitar, a Natural Wood Fender Stratocaster Hardtail electric guitar. Great 1979 vintage guitar and a looker too. The electrics work flawlessly. Here we have a guitar with only minor play wear and patina. You won’t find many like this in such a great nick. Great looker and a killer player, as you would expect from a classic guitar. The wood finish has beautifully aged to a rich colour and the neck has a lovely satin finish So here we have a very playable and functional guitar with ounces of mojo and a great vintage feel to it.

Fender Stratocaster (1979, Tobacco Sunburst)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 20/12/2018
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Here a Fender USA guitar, a Tobacco burst Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. Great 1979 vintage guitar and a classy looker too. The electrics work well. Here we have an SRV Model with some minor genuine play wear and patina. You won’t find many like this in such a great nick. Great looker and a killer player, as you would expect from a classic guitar. The finish has beautifully aged and the neck has a lovely finish, the paint of the neck has aged and checked worn off in some of the played areas. So here we have a very collectible rock machine with ounces of mojo and a great vintage feel to it.

WAL Mk 1 Bass (1984, American Walnut)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 09/12/2018
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Here another great WAL Mk 1 Bass Guitar Model built in 1984, a handmade guitar from electric woods company put together from a great mixture of exotic woods including Indian mahogany core and American Walnut facings. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with dot markers. This is a cool looking bass and like most other WAL Basses it is a great player too. WAL Basses were once commonplace thoughout the 1980s with a number of bands and music styles.

Gibson ES-335 Nashville (2017, Walnut)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 04/12/2018
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Here we have an edition of Gibson’s flagship semi-solid guitar features a gorgeous 1970’s reissue ES -335 Nashville Model. This reissue is issued with walnut stain finish in nitro cellulose paint, Kluson style tuners and Witch Hat” knobs, with rounded “C” neck shape, 57 Classic hum-bucker PAF pickups and ABR -1 bridge with titanium saddles. Plays superbly and has killer looks too. Guitar lives in its case.

Guild Brian May Signature Pro (1993, Green)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 30/11/2018
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Fans of Queen or Brian May will know the famous Guild replicas of the red special. Here is a Signature Pro Model made in 1993, in the rarer green finish. Below a bit about how it all started.

Spring of 1964, Brian May, then a student at Hampton, Middlesex, and his father, an electronics engineer, worked on a project to make an electric guitar. After two years the “Red Special” . This guitar, Brian’s main instrument, would become “Queen’s” sound. In 1994, the USA based Guild Guitar Co. and Brian worked closely together to produce 316 close replicas of the “Red Special”, most of which were red and a very small number were issued in racing green. The guitar had to match the special features of the custom-made original Brian May guitar. Mahogany body, Ebony fingerboard; neck is wider than most electrics (1-13/16 at the nut) aiding string bending and kitted out with 24th frets. The head of the guitar is arrow-shaped and flat in line with the neck. The guild series comprised the early 1984/5 models with a Kahler like trem. The more sought after models were the 1993/4 BHM-01 and 02 series.

Yamaha SF-600 (1979, Translucent Green)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 19/11/2018
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Here an unusual active Super Flighter SF-600, through neck series made in Japan by Yamaha from 1978 to 1979, these guitars are related to the earliest superflighters SF-500, 700 and 1000 and are well sought after.

The guitar has a 22-fret laminated through neck and a solid maple/mahogany body. It has two humbucker pickups with independent volume and tone controls, and features an active circuit with coil-tap option like the SF-1000, albeit via a 2 microswitch and has a wide tonal range. Good quality chrome hardware and tuners, versatile and solid, and accurate. Rosewood fret board with mother of pearl dot markers. Guitar currently on tour with Bill McGonagle at SinDogs

Yamaha SG-1000N (1985, Blue-burst)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 05/11/2018
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Here  a rare Yamaha SG-1000N in Blue Burst finish. The SG-1000N is a narrow neck version of the SG-1000, which was issued as the more rocky little brother of the acclaimed Yamaha SG-2000. This guitar is a top quality axe and handles and balances well; the tapered narrow neck, reminiscent of the Gibson 60s models plays superbly easy and coupled with the fact that the guitar has been set up with low action, it plays light and fluid. The guitar is a real beauty with the black and blue fading in. It’s a quality built guitar with a set neck and high grade ebony fret-board with mother of pearl, split wing position markers. The guitar is in very good condition with only minor marks. The weight of guitar is approx. 4 Kgs, which is .3 kg lighter than the SG-1000, the neck is a bit slimmer and tapered with the neck width at nut approx. 4.1 cm.

Gibson Les Paul Classic, MIII, (1992, Cherry Sunburst)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 28/10/2018
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Here we have an unusual Gibson Les Paul Classic, MIII, Electric Guitar made in USA 1992. A fairly heavy guitar in translucent Cherry Sunburst finish. The guitar is factory kitted out with 2 hum-buckers, and a single coil between. What’s odd about this one, is a 5-way switch like a Stratocaster activating the 3 Pickups in a similar manner. This gives you a wide variety of tone and output. Therefore we have here a gorgeous vintage Gibson Les Paul with a great playability and variety of output. The guitar has a good feel to it, and sound wise it is awesome too. The fret board is rosewood and the guitar plays light and fluid. A great player all round. Lives in its hard case

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Fender Stratocaster (1977, 3-tone Tobacco Sunburst)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 26/10/2018
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Here another iconic Fender USA guitar in the collection, a faded/aged Three-tone Tobacco burst Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. Great 1977 vintage guitar and a classy looker too. All electrics work well. Here we have an SRV Model with genuine play wear and patina without all the modern day relicing. You won’t find many like this in such a great nick. Great looker and a killer player, as you would expect from a classic guitar. The finish has beautifully aged to a and the neck has a lovely satin finish, the paint of the neck has aged and worn off in some of the played areas making it a fast player too. So here we have a very collectible rock machine with ounces of mojo and a great vintage feel to it. Lives in a 1980s fender case.

Gibson “The Ripper” Bass (1977, Natural Wood)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 19/10/2018
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Here a genuine vintage Gibson Ripper Bass. This is a 1970s designed bass along the “Grabber” Bass and Guitar models Marauder and S1, and the Gibson L6s models. This is a large body shape flat body bass guitar, and the result of cooperation between Bill Lawrence and Gibson. It was initially designed in 1973 and first released in 1975. The idea was to make a “multi-sound Bass system” for a low price. The Ripper Bass was issue with the model code name L-9s, linking it with the other L-s models. Like the L6-S guitar models the Ripper and Grabber remained in production for a few years but was phased out gradually, although these Basses remained in the catalogue into1980s and were still being made in the Nashville plant. The L9-s is now considered to be a collector item and one of the underrated Gibson solid bodied guitars of the era. Guitar lives in its plush hard-case.

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Gibson L5-s (1973, Cherry Sunburst)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 16/10/2018
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Here a unusual Gibson L5-s, basically a solid body version of the Gibson L5 semiacoustic Guitar. Flattish body, kinda Les Paulish, slightly arched maple top with ebony. Fairly flat guitar, and apart from the double sided binding and the Ebony fretboard with real abalone, it’s quite similar to the Gibson L6-s, but less flat and contoured. Even the cavity backplate is made out of the wood. Originally designed as jazz/fusion guitar and kitted out with low impedance pick ups, laterally it came with standard humbuckers. This guitar packs a punch and is cool to look at also. Guitar lives in its In it’s Case. The dimensions are similar to the Gibson Les Paul Recording.

 

Yamaha SG-1000XU (1984, Red/White)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 07/09/2018
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Here a rarity, a Yamaha SG-1000XU, a factory issued modified Yamaha SG-1000 from 1984. One of a very few with a arrow-shaped headstock instead of the open book shaped. Apparently this was a limited release issue and seems to be associated with a tv series for youngsters in Japan in the 1980s. The guitar plays very much like the Yamaha SG-1300T and is equipped with pretty much the same Rocking Magic tremolo system. Coil tapping options are part of the spec and unlike the 1300T, it has 2 vol /2 tone control systems common on a standard SG-1000. The neck however, is set flush with the body almost resembling an SG-1300 T with a arrow shaped head stock. Guitar lives in its shaped lined hard case.