Electric Guitars · Models

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Silvertone 1448

Electric guitar · United States

An entry-level electric sold by Sears under the Silvertone name and built by Danelectro, famous for shipping in a carrying case with a built-in tube amplifier and speaker. It introduced countless American teenagers to electric guitar in the early 1960s.

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ESP Eclipse

Electric guitar

ESP's flagship single-cutaway electric, the Eclipse takes the classic set-neck, carved-top format and builds it for modern hard rock and metal. Typically loaded with active humbuckers and finished in bold solid colors, it pairs a familiar single-cut shape with a high-output, aggressive voice.

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D'Angelico Excel EXL-1

South Korea

The Excel EXL-1 is a 17-inch single-cutaway hollow-body archtop electric guitar inspired by John D'Angelico's original Excel introduced in 1947. It pairs a laminated spruce top with laminated flame maple back and sides, a set three-piece neck with a C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard, and a 25.5-inch scale. A single floating Seymour Duncan Johnny Smith mini-humbucker, a floating ebony bridge, and the brand's stairstep tailpiece give it a woody, articulate tone for jazz rhythm and lead.

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Dean Cadillac

Electric guitar

A single-cutaway electric from Dean Guitars built in the carved-top, set-neck tradition. It pairs a mahogany body with a maple top and humbucking pickups for a thick, sustaining rock voice.

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PJD Carey

United Kingdom

The Carey is a core PJD Guitars model, a single-cutaway electric hand-built in York, England by luthier Leigh Dovey. It has a flat-top single-cut body and is often fitted with a humbucker/P-90 pairing, offered in Standard, Elite and Limited editions.

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Gordon-Smith GS1

The GS1 is a foundational Gordon-Smith model, hand-built in England from a single-piece mahogany body and set neck featuring the brand's signature 'tone pocket.' It carries a rosewood fingerboard and Gordon-Smith's home-wound humbuckers, made to the same specification as the company's 1974 originals.

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C.R. Alsip SC-Singlecut

The SC-Singlecut is a C.R. Alsip Guitars single-cutaway solid-body, hand-built in Georgia by luthier Jake Willoughby. Like the shop's other solid-bodies it features neck-through construction, copper-shielded electronics cavities, and Alsip's proprietary Sustain Enhancement System, with an optional inlaid exotic-wood Drop-Top.

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Fano Alt de Facto TC6

United States

The Fano Alt de Facto TC6 is a hand-built electric guitar with a single-cutaway shape that echoes a classic string-through solid body. It is typically fitted with a pair of hot TV Jones Supertron Filter'Tron-style humbucking pickups, uses a 25.5-inch scale, and has an early-'60s 'C'-shaped neck. Each TC6 is made one at a time in the USA and offered with custom woods, hardware, and aged nitrocellulose finishes.

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Epiphone Les Paul

Electric guitar

The Epiphone Les Paul series covers Epiphone's single-cutaway solid-body electric guitars built on the Gibson Les Paul design, from affordable entry models to the Inspired by Gibson Standard and Custom. Models typically pair a mahogany body with a maple cap, a set mahogany neck, a 24.75-inch scale, and dual humbucking pickups.

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Gibson Les Paul Standard

Electric guitar · United States

The benchmark Les Paul, with a carved maple top, two humbuckers, and a sunburst finish. Original 1958–1960 "Bursts" are among the most coveted electric guitars ever made, and the model defines the classic Les Paul sound.

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Gretsch Duo Jet

Electric guitar · Japan

Introduced in 1953, the Duo Jet (G6128) is Gretsch's single-cutaway, chambered solid-body electric, built with a mahogany back and an arched laminated maple top that retains some hollow-body resonance. It carries twin Filter'Tron pickups and a Bigsby vibrato and was famously played by George Harrison.

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Epiphone Les Paul 100

Electric guitar

An entry-level Epiphone Les Paul aimed at beginners, offering the familiar single-cutaway body and dual-humbucker layout of the Les Paul at a low price. It is a common first electric guitar.

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Collings 290

Electric guitar · United States

The Collings 290 is a single-cutaway mahogany solid-body electric guitar inspired by the Les Paul Junior, with a solid mahogany body and neck, an East Indian rosewood fingerboard, a hand-set mortise-and-tenon neck joint, and P-90 pickups. It is hand-built in Austin, Texas.

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Supro Belmont

Electric guitar · United States

A single-pickup solid-body electric guitar from the American Valco-era brand Supro. Later examples used Valco's distinctive moulded 'Res-O-Glas' fibreglass body, giving the Belmont a light, resonant character and the mid-focused Supro tone prized by slide and blues players.

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Supro Ozark

Electric guitar · United States

One of the first solid-body electric guitars from the American Valco-era brand Supro, dating to the early 1950s. A compact single-cutaway solidbody with a single pickup, the Ozark is famous as the model on which a teenage Jimi Hendrix is said to have started, and its midrange-forward voice suited slide playing.

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Silvertone 1457

Electric guitar · United States

A two-pickup version of Sears' famous 'amp-in-case' electric guitar set, sold under the Silvertone house brand and built by Danelectro. Introduced in 1964 to succeed the single-pickup 1448, it pairs a short-scale 18-fret slab body and twin lipstick pickups with a carrying case containing a built-in tube amplifier and speaker.

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Silvertone 1303

Electric guitar · United States

A Danelectro-built electric guitar sold under Sears' Silvertone house brand, based on Danelectro's 'U2' design with a Masonite body and a pair of lipstick pickups. The 1303/U2 was reissued in 2013 as part of the Silvertone Classic series.

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Reverend Six Gun

Electric guitar · South Korea

A sleek single-cutaway electric guitar from the American maker Reverend. The Six Gun III carries three Reverend Salnico single-coils with alnico-5 rod magnets for a traditional, articulate tone, on a korina body with a bolt-on neck, 25.5-inch scale and Bass Contour Control.

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Reverend Buckshot

Electric guitar · South Korea

A single-cutaway electric guitar from the American maker Reverend, with a roasted-maple bolt-on neck, 25.5-inch scale and the brand's Bass Contour Control. A Tele-style single-coil at the bridge and a Revtron mini-humbucker at the neck give it both twang and warmer, fuller tones.

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Reverend Charger

Electric guitar · South Korea

A retro-styled single-cutaway electric guitar from the American maker Reverend, offered as the humbucker-equipped Charger HB or the twin-P90 Charger 290. It uses a korina body, bolt-on neck, 25.5-inch scale and Reverend's Bass Contour Control.

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Epiphone Les Paul Custom

Electric guitar

The Epiphone Les Paul Custom is the dressed-up version of the Les Paul, with multi-ply binding, gold hardware, a bound ebony fretboard with mother-of-pearl block inlays, and a split-diamond headstock inlay. It has a mahogany body with a maple cap, a one-piece mahogany neck, a 24.75-inch scale, 22 medium jumbo frets, a LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge and stop bar, and ProBucker Custom humbuckers based on Gibson's Custombucker pickups.

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Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s

Electric guitar

The Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s, part of the Inspired by Gibson Collection, recreates the look and feel of an early-1960s Les Paul Standard. It pairs a mahogany body with an AA flame maple top, a mahogany SlimTaper 60s neck with an Indian laurel fretboard and 22 frets, a 24.75-inch scale, a LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece, and ProBucker-2 and ProBucker-3 humbuckers with CTS electronics.

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D'Angelico Excel SS

South Korea

The Excel SS is a single-cutaway semi-hollow electric guitar with a 15-inch laminated spruce top, maple back and sides, and a solid center block for sustain and feedback control. It uses a set three-piece neck with a C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard with split-block inlays, and a 25-inch scale. Two USA Seymour Duncan humbuckers with coil-splitting feed a gold tune-o-matic bridge and the brand's stairstep tailpiece, suiting jazz and roots playing.

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D'Angelico Premier SS

Indonesia

The Premier SS is a single-cutaway semi-hollow electric guitar with a 15-inch laminated maple body and a solid center block, a set maple neck with a C-shaped profile, a walnut fingerboard, and a 25-inch scale. Two D'Angelico humbuckers feed a nickel tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece. As the brand's most accessible single-cutaway semi-hollow, it brings the SS shape to the Premier series price point.

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D'Angelico Deluxe Atlantic

South Korea

The Deluxe Atlantic is a single-cutaway solid-body electric guitar with an alder body, a set three-piece neck with a satin C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard, and a 24.75-inch scale. Two Seymour Duncan Seth Lover humbuckers with coil-splitting feed a nickel tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece. Part of D'Angelico's premium Deluxe series, it offers a warm, vintage-voiced solid-body alternative to the brand's archtops.

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Friedman Metro-D

United States

The Friedman Metro-D is Friedman's set-neck, single-cutaway solidbody electric guitar, designed by Dave Friedman with luthier Grover Jackson and built in the USA. It uses a mahogany body with a figured maple top and a long-tenon mahogany neck, carrying two Friedman humbuckers (a Classic in the neck and a hotter Classic+ in the bridge) with coil-splitting, routed to a TonePros tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar. A compound-radius fingerboard, 25.5-inch scale, and full Plek setup make it a modern take on the classic set-neck single-cut.

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Duesenberg 49er

Electric guitar · Germany

A single-cutaway electric guitar from the German maker Duesenberg, with a maple cap on a mahogany body and a string-through fixed bridge rather than a tremolo. Like other Duesenbergs it uses a slightly longer scale than a typical single-cut and the brand's vintage-flavoured styling.

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Duesenberg Caribou

Electric guitar · Germany

A single-cutaway electric guitar from the German maker Duesenberg, built from solid alder with large internal sound chambers for a direct yet open voice. It pairs a creamy Domino P90 in the neck with a GrandVintage humbucker at the bridge and Duesenberg's signature tremolo and art-deco styling.

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Danelectro '56

Electric guitar

A single-cutaway electric guitar made by the American brand Danelectro, a reissue of Nathan Daniel's original 1956 U2 design. Like all classic Danos it uses a lightweight Masonite-and-poplar semi-hollow body, lipstick-tube pickups and a Coke-bottle/dolphin-nose headstock, delivering the bright, hollow Danelectro voice.

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Strandberg Salen Classic NX

Electric guitar · Indonesia

The Salen Classic NX is a single-cut-styled headless Strandberg guitar with a solid okoume body, dual-humbucker layout, and an EGS Rev7 tremolo. It uses the trapezoidal EndurNeck profile and multiscale fanned frets in a 6-string format.

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Nik Huber Orca

Electric guitar · Germany

The Orca is a Nik Huber Guitars single-cutaway carved-top electric guitar built in Rodgau, Germany. It pairs a curly maple carved top over a mahogany body with a set mahogany neck and East Indian rosewood fingerboard, a 25-inch scale, two Häussel 1959 humbuckers, and an ABM AVR-2 bridge with aluminium tailpiece.

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Macmull Heartbreaker

The Heartbreaker is a Macmull Custom Guitars single-cutaway electric with a bound one-piece alder body, bolt-on hard maple neck and Madagascar rosewood 9.5-inch radius fingerboard with 21 Dunlop 6105 frets. The Heartbreaker Custom variant is fitted with two of Macmull's matched RVT P-90 pickups.

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Knaggs Kenai

Electric guitar · United States

The Kenai is a Knaggs Guitars Influence Series single-cutaway electric guitar with a carved top and back, a set mahogany neck, a 24.75-inch scale, and 22 frets. It is offered in HH, HSS, H/P90 and single-humbucker layouts with the Knaggs Influence 2-in-1 bridge and string holder.

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Iconic Tamarack

The Tamarack is Iconic Guitars' take on the classic solid-body single-cutaway design. It is hand-built in Carlsbad, California with Iconic's vintage-inspired construction and proprietary pickups.

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Gordon-Smith Graduate

The Graduate is a Gordon-Smith electric guitar known for a raw, honest British tone, part of the company's long-running range built in Higham Ferrers, England.

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Gordon-Smith GS2

The GS2 is Gordon-Smith's twin-pickup single-cutaway, hand-built in the UK with a hand-carved mahogany body, a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, an adjustable brass nut and a fixed bridge for sustain and tuning stability. It is offered in Heritage and Deluxe specifications.

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Chapman ML2

The ML2 is Chapman Guitars' take on the classic single-cut, with a modified body shape and the brand's angled pennant headstock. The ML2 Pro pairs a flamed maple top on a mahogany body with a roasted maple neck and Seymour Duncan Sentient and Pegasus humbuckers.