Electric Guitars · Models

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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.

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Paoletti Nancy

Italy

The Nancy is a single-cutaway Paoletti electric guitar with a solid aged-chestnut body reclaimed from old wine barrels, handcrafted in Italy. Known for a warm, clear voice, it is built in several pickup layouts and the natural Wine Series finishes that define the Paoletti range.

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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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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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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 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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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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Squier Telecaster

Electric guitar

Squier's affordable version of the Fender Telecaster, reproducing the single-cutaway body and twin single-coil layout of the original at an entry-level price. It is a popular first guitar for players drawn to the Telecaster's bright twang.

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Ernie Ball Music Man Armada

Electric guitar · United States

A more traditional rock electric from Ernie Ball Music Man introduced in 2014, built with a mahogany body, a carved figured-maple top, a set neck, and humbucking pickups. It paired the company's modern build quality with a classic single-cutaway-style voice.