Electric Guitars · Models

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Epiphone Casino

Electric guitar

A fully hollow thinline electric with twin P-90 pickups, the Casino is best known for its use by all three guitarists in the Beatles. Its bright, raw, slightly raucous tone made it a favorite for both clean and overdriven playing.

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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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Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 2

Mexico

Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 2 is cataloged within the Charvel San Dimas electric guitar family.

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Epiphone Sheraton

Electric guitar

Epiphone's upscale semi-hollow electric, the Sheraton dresses the 335-style body with fancier binding, block inlays, and a decorative tailpiece. Associated with players like John Lee Hooker and Noel Gallagher, it offers a refined, warm semi-hollow tone.

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Gretsch White Falcon

Electric guitar · Japan

Introduced in 1955 as Gretsch's luxury flagship, the White Falcon (G6136) is a large 17-inch single-cutaway hollow body finished in white with gold sparkle binding and gold hardware. It carries twin Filter'Tron humbucking pickups and a Bigsby vibrato, and remains one of the most recognizable and prestigious electric guitars ever made.

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Squier Cyclone

Electric guitar

Squier's affordable version of the offset Cyclone, built on the compact, short-scaled body of the Fender original. It brought the model's punchy, modern voice to a budget-friendly price.

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Gretsch Country Gentleman

Electric guitar · Japan

Developed with Chet Atkins and introduced in 1957, the Country Gentleman (G6122) is a refined hollow-body electric, later offered as a 17-inch double-cutaway. It features twin Filter'Tron pickups, an Adjusto-Matic bridge, and a Bigsby vibrato, delivering the warm, articulate Gretsch voice favored in country, rockabilly, and pop.

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Epiphone Dot

Electric guitar

Epiphone's affordable take on the semi-hollow ES-335 format, named for its simple dot fingerboard inlays. It pairs a center-block semi-hollow body with humbucking pickups for a versatile, warm voice at a budget price.

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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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PRS Hollowbody II

Electric guitar · United States

A fully hollow, double-cutaway electric introduced in the late 1990s, the Hollowbody II uses a carved maple top and back with a mahogany center block-free hollow construction for an airy, acoustic-tinged voice. It carries two PRS humbuckers and is offered with an optional LR Baggs/PRS piezo system that adds amplified acoustic tones alongside the magnetic pickups.

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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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Dean V 79

Electric guitar

The Dean V 79 is a reissue built to the original 1979 Dean V specs, with a mahogany body and maple top, a set mahogany neck, an Indian rosewood fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets and a 12-inch radius, a 24.75-inch scale, Grover tuners, a Tune-o-matic bridge, and a pair of Dean zebra humbuckers.

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Squier Contemporary Stratocaster Special

Electric guitar

The Squier Contemporary Stratocaster Special is a modernized Stratocaster aimed at rock and metal players. It has a poplar body, a roasted maple C-shaped neck with 22 jumbo frets and a flatter 12-inch fingerboard radius, a 25.5-inch scale, an HSS pickup layout pairing ceramic single-coils with a hot ceramic humbucking bridge pickup, and a two-point tremolo.

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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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Gretsch G5422 Electromatic

Electric guitar

A double-cutaway hollow-body in Gretsch's mid-priced Electromatic Collection, the G5422 pairs a laminated maple body with vintage-style trestle bracing, twin Black Top Filter'Tron pickups, an Adjusto-Matic bridge, and a Bigsby vibrato. It delivers classic Gretsch jangle and twang at an accessible price.

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Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HH

Electric guitar · Mexico

The Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HH is a Southern-California superstrat with an alder body, a bolt-on maple speed neck with graphite reinforcement, a 12-to-16-inch compound-radius maple fingerboard with 22 frets, a 25.5-inch scale, two direct-mounted humbucking pickups, and a Floyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking tremolo.

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Gretsch G2622 Streamliner

Electric guitar · Indonesia

A double-cutaway semi-hollow in Gretsch's entry-level Streamliner Collection, the G2622 uses a laminated maple body with a spruce center block to control feedback. It carries dual Broad'Tron humbucking pickups for a fuller, higher-output voice, an Adjusto-Matic bridge, and a V-Stoptail.

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PRS McCarty 594

Electric guitar · United States

Named for its 24.594-inch scale length, the McCarty 594 is a Core vintage-leaning model designed with Ted McCarty-era Gibson voicing in mind. It pairs a mahogany body and figured maple top with two PRS 58/15 LT (McCarty III) humbuckers, a two-piece bridge with brass saddles, and dual volume and push/pull tone controls for a warm, classic humbucker sound.

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Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1

Mexico

Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 is cataloged within the Charvel San Dimas electric guitar family.

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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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Epiphone ES-335

Electric guitar

The Epiphone ES-335 recreates Gibson's original thinline semi-hollow design, built with a layered maple body and a solid maple center block for sustain and feedback resistance. It has a mahogany Rounded C neck, an Indian laurel fretboard with 22 frets, a 24.75-inch scale, a LockTone Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar, and Alnico Classic PRO humbuckers.

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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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Dean ML 79

Electric guitar

The Dean ML 79 is a reissue of the original 1979 Dean ML, with a mahogany body and maple top, a set mahogany neck, a rosewood fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets, a 24.75-inch scale, the distinctive split V-shaped tailpiece with a Tune-o-matic bridge, and dual humbucking pickups.

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PRS Custom 22

Electric guitar · United States

Introduced in 1993, the Custom 22 is the 22-fret counterpart to the Custom 24, trading two frets for a neck-pickup position closer to vintage humbucker placement. It shares the Core platform's figured maple top, mahogany body and neck, bird inlays, and PRS tremolo, delivering a warmer, more vocal voice prized for blues and rock.