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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.