Electric Guitars · Models

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Fano Alt de Facto JM6

United States

The Fano Alt de Facto JM6 is a hand-built electric guitar with a contoured alder body and a curvy, vintage-inspired outline. It uses a 25.5-inch scale and is often loaded with hot Lollar P-90 pickups, though pickups, woods, hardware, and finishes are all chosen to order. Like the rest of Fano's Alt de Facto line, each JM6 is built one at a time in the USA.

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Parker Fly Deluxe

Electric guitar · United States

The flagship Parker Fly model, an ultralight electric guitar with a poplar body and neck sheathed in a carbon-glass exoskeleton and stainless steel frets. The Fly Deluxe pairs magnetic humbuckers with a blendable Fishman piezo system and Parker's flat vibrato; a 'refined' Deluxe was announced in 2003 for the line's tenth anniversary.

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Fender David Gilmore Signature Stratocaster

Electric guitar · United States

A signature Stratocaster modeled on the legendary "Black Strat" played by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, finished in black with a black pickguard. It reproduces details from his instrument, including noiseless pickups, a shortened tremolo arm, and a custom switching option for added tonal range.

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Strat Plus

Electric guitar · United States

A premium Stratocaster series Fender offered from 1987 to 1998, fitted with noise-canceling Lace Sensor pickups, locking tuners, and a roller nut to improve tuning stability. It was a flagship of Fender's late-eighties modernization.

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Kiesel Aries

Electric guitar · United States

The Aries is a Kiesel Guitars build-to-order superstrat-style electric guitar with a bolt-on neck and radiused neck heel. It features dual direct-mount passive Kiesel Lithium humbuckers, 24 stainless-steel frets, a 25.5-inch scale on the standard six-string, and a Hipshot fixed bridge, and is offered in 6-, 7-, 8- and 9-string and multiscale configurations.

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Suhr Classic S

Electric guitar · United States

The Suhr Classic S is an S-style solid-body electric guitar built by Suhr in Lake Elsinore, California. It combines an alder body and a bolt-on tinted maple neck with Suhr V60LP single-coil pickups and a two-post vintage-style tremolo, and is offered in both SSS and HSS pickup configurations, the latter adding an SSV bridge humbucker.

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Nash S-63

Electric guitar · United States

The Nash S-63 is an S-style solid-body electric guitar built by Nash Guitars with aged, relic nitrocellulose finishes. It pairs a standard alder body and rosewood-fingerboard neck with three single-coil pickups and a vintage-style tremolo, paying homage to the early-1960s S-body design while updating playability and sound.

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Novo Serus T

Electric guitar · United States

The Serus T is a Novo Guitars retro-modern solid-body electric guitar handbuilt in Nashville. It features a tempered pine body, a tempered maple neck with rosewood or maple fingerboard, a 25.5-inch scale, two single-coil pickups (a Fralin high-output Tele in the bridge and a Fralin P-45 in the neck), and a Telecaster-style bridge plate with compensated brass saddles.

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Parker Fly

Electric guitar · United States

The Parker Fly series, designed by luthier Ken Parker and built from 1993, is a family of ultralight electric guitars whose wooden body and neck are wrapped in a stiff carbon-glass exoskeleton. Flys combine a thin, resonant body with stainless steel frets, a Fishman piezo system blendable with magnetic pickups, and a flat-mount vibrato. The series spans models such as the Fly Deluxe, Fly Classic, Fly Mojo, Fly Supreme and Fly Artist.

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Anderson Drop Top

Electric guitar · United States

The Drop Top is Tom Anderson Guitarworks' signature S-style electric guitar, introduced in 1990. It features a book-matched exotic tonewood top (flame or quilted maple, walnut, or koa) 'dropped' over a tonewood back of alder, mahogany, swamp ash, or basswood to create a contoured forearm bevel, paired with a bolt-on Anderson neck.

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Knaggs Severn

Electric guitar · United States

The Severn is the flagship of Knaggs Guitars' Chesapeake Series, a double-cutaway solid-body electric guitar with a flat body, a set rock-maple neck, a 25.5-inch scale, and 22 frets. It is offered in a wide range of pickup layouts (including SSS, T-style, HSH, HH, P90 and Firebird) with Knaggs Chesapeake hardtail or tremolo bridges.

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Steinberger Spirit GT-PRO

Electric guitar · United States

The Spirit GT-PRO is Steinberger's headless, ultra-compact 6-string electric guitar on a 25.5 in scale, with a basswood body, three-piece maple neck, and an HSH pickup configuration. It features the R-Trem locking tremolo, 40:1 Direct-Pull tuners, and a zero fret.

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Fano Alt de Facto GF6

United States

The Fano Alt de Facto GF6 is a hand-built, offset semi-hollow electric guitar with a carved top, a center block, and F-holes. It uses a 25.5-inch scale and an early-'60s 'C'-shaped neck, and can be ordered with a range of woods, pickups, and bridge or vibrato hardware. Each one is built individually in the USA and finished in aged nitrocellulose lacquer.

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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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Friedman Cali

United States

The Friedman Cali is a hot-rodded S-style electric guitar designed by Dave Friedman with luthier Grover Jackson and built in Southern California. It pairs an alder body and bolt-on maple neck with two Friedman humbuckers and an Original Floyd Rose tremolo, finished in thin aged nitrocellulose lacquer. A 10-to-14-inch compound-radius fingerboard and Plek-finished frets give it the fast, modern feel of the classic San Dimas performance guitars.

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Fender American Professional II Stratocaster

Electric guitar · United States

A modern Fender Stratocaster variant with V-Mod II single-coil pickups, a Deep C neck, narrow-tall frets, and a two-point synchronized tremolo.

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1954 Fender Stratocaster

United States

A year-specific Stratocaster variant representing the model's first production year.

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Parker Fly Mojo

Electric guitar · United States

A Parker Fly model with a solid mahogany body and neck and Seymour Duncan humbuckers, giving more low-end weight and warmth than the standard Fly while keeping the carbon-glass exoskeleton, Fishman piezo and Parker vibrato.

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Fender Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster

Electric guitar · United States

A signature Stratocaster developed with guitarist Eric Johnson, built to vintage sensibilities with a thin nitrocellulose finish, a quartersawn maple neck, special-wound single-coils, and countersunk tremolo springs. Detail touches such as a single string tree and a 12-degree neck-pocket fit reflect Johnson's preference for clear, dynamic tone.

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Friedman Vintage-T

United States

The Friedman Vintage-T is a single-cutaway, T-style solidbody electric guitar built in the USA by Dave Friedman with luthier Grover Jackson. The reviewed model pairs a mahogany body and a bolt-on maple neck with a pau ferro fingerboard and a set of Friedman Classic 90 (P-90 style) pickups over a fixed hardtail bridge. Thin aged nitrocellulose lacquer, a 10-to-14-inch compound-radius board, and Plek-finished fretwork give it vintage looks with modern playability.

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Eric Clapton Stratocaster

Electric guitar · United States

Fender's first artist signature model, introduced in 1988 and shaped around the feel of Eric Clapton's favorite Stratocasters. It pairs a soft V-shaped maple neck with noiseless single-coil pickups and an active mid-boost circuit, and the vibrato is typically blocked for a fixed-bridge response. Offered in finishes such as Torino Red, Olympic White, and Pewter, it remains one of Fender's longest-running signature guitars.

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Music Man Axis

Electric guitar · United States

A high-performance solid-body that grew out of Ernie Ball Music Man's Eddie Van Halen signature guitar. It features a basswood body with a figured maple top, two humbuckers, and a locking tremolo, delivering a fast, hot-rodded rock instrument.

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Friedman NoHo 24

United States

The Friedman NoHo 24 is a double-cutaway solidbody electric guitar built in the USA. It combines a resonant alder body and a quilted maple top with a 24-fret hard-maple neck and an ebony fingerboard, and is loaded with two Friedman Triple D humbuckers for a clear, high-output voice. A 24.75-inch scale, stainless Jescar frets, and a full Plek setup support fast, stable playability.

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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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Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster

Electric guitar · United States

A signature Stratocaster modeled on Stevie Ray Vaughan's famous "Number One," featuring a left-handed vibrato unit mounted on a right-handed body, gold hardware, a pao ferro fingerboard, and the engraved "SRV" pickguard. It is built to capture the thick, expressive blues tone he was known for.

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Fender Stratocaster American Standard

Electric guitar · United States

The U.S. production-standard Stratocaster offered from 1987 to 2016, updating the classic with a 22-fret neck, a two-point synchronized tremolo, and modernized hardware. For nearly three decades it was the benchmark American-made Strat.

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Friedman Vintage-S

United States

The Friedman Vintage-S is a double-cutaway, S-style solidbody electric guitar built in the USA by Dave Friedman with luthier Grover Jackson. It pairs an alder body and a bolt-on maple neck with an HSS pickup set: a Friedman Classic+ humbucker at the bridge plus reverse-wound middle and neck single-coils that give hum-cancelling in-between positions, all routed through a two-point vibrato bridge. A 10-to-14-inch compound-radius maple fingerboard, 22 frets, and thin aged nitrocellulose lacquer round out the specification.

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Fender American Vintage '52 Telecaster

Electric guitar · United States

A faithful reissue recreating the specifications of the 1952 Telecaster, with an ash body, one-piece maple neck, and a pair of vintage-voiced single-coil pickups through a traditional three-way circuit. It is built for players who want the bright, twangy character and feel of an early-fifties Tele.

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PRS Silver Sky

Electric guitar · United States

Designed with John Mayer and released in 2018, the Silver Sky is PRS's vintage-inspired, Stratocaster-influenced bolt-on model. It pairs an alder body and bolt-on maple neck with three 635JM single-coil pickups, a 25.5-inch scale, a 2-point steel tremolo, and a reverse PRS headstock, delivering classic single-coil tones with PRS fit and finish.

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Fender American Professional II Jazzmaster

United States

A U.S.-built Jazzmaster from Fender's American Professional II series, introduced in 2020. It retains the large offset body, floating tremolo, and rhythm/lead switching of the original while adding a refined neck, rolled fingerboard edges, and V-Mod II single-coil pickups for a more focused modern voice.

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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.

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Music Man Cutlass

Electric guitar · United States

Ernie Ball Music Man's take on the classic double-cutaway bolt-on, the Cutlass pairs a lightweight alder body with three mid-60s-style Music Man single-coil pickups in an SSS layout, an asymmetric roasted-maple neck, and a smooth modern tremolo. It offers familiar vintage single-coil tones with Music Man playability.

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Anderson Guardian Angel

Electric guitar · United States

The Guardian Angel is a Tom Anderson Guitarworks electric guitar built on the Angel body silhouette with a pickguard and an exotic wood drop top. It offers a 24-fret, two-octave fingerboard with deep cutaways and extended horns for upper-fret access, and accepts the full range of Anderson pickups and switching layouts.

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Kiesel Vader

Electric guitar · United States

The Vader is Kiesel Guitars' headless build-to-order electric guitar. It features dual direct-mount passive Kiesel Lithium humbuckers, 24 stainless-steel frets, a 25.5-inch scale on the standard six-string, and a Hipshot fixed headless bridge, and is offered in 6-, 7- and 8-string and multiscale configurations.

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Music Man Majesty

Electric guitar · United States

John Petrucci's signature Ernie Ball Music Man guitar, the Majesty is a modern high-performance instrument with a sculpted, shield-shaped double-cutaway body, two DiMarzio humbuckers, piezo-equipped saddles for acoustic tones, a floating Petrucci tremolo, and 24 stainless-steel frets on a 25.5-inch scale. It is built for technical, high-gain progressive playing.

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Novo Miris J

Electric guitar · United States

The Miris J is a Novo Guitars retro-modern solid-body electric guitar handbuilt in Nashville. It features a swamp ash body with white binding, a tempered maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, a 25.5-inch scale, two Lollar P-90 pickups, and a Mastery M1 bridge with an NV vibrato tailpiece.

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Suhr Modern

Electric guitar · United States

The Suhr Modern is a superstrat-style solid-body electric guitar from Suhr. The model features a contoured double-cutaway body, a bolt-on maple neck with a compound-radius fingerboard and stainless-steel frets, an HSH pickup configuration, and a Suhr two-post tremolo bridge.

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Nash T-63

Electric guitar · United States

The Nash T-63 is a T-style solid-body electric guitar built by Nash Guitars with aged, relic nitrocellulose finishes. It features an ash or alder body with a rosewood fingerboard, two single-coil pickups, a hardtail bridge, and a three-ply pickguard, following the classic American single-coil solid-body design.