Maker
Friedman Guitars
Boutique guitar and amplifier builder
Friedman is a United States boutique builder founded by Dave Friedman (Rack Systems). The company is best known for Friedman Amplification's hand-wired EL34 guitar amplifiers such as the BE-100 (Brown Eye) and Small Box, and also produces boutique electric guitars.
Models
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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 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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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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Friedman BE-100
Amplifier · United States
The Friedman BE-100 'Brown Eye' is a 100-watt all-tube guitar amplifier head powered by four EL34 tubes, hand-wired in the USA. It pairs Friedman's BE and HBE high-gain drive channels with vintage-plexi cleans; the current BE-100 Deluxe expands it to three channels, adding a dedicated plexi clean borrowed from the Small Box.
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Friedman Small Box
Amplifier · United States
The Friedman Small Box is a 50-watt, two-channel all-tube guitar amplifier powered by two EL34 tubes and hand-wired in the USA. Channel one delivers vintage plexi clean-to-crunch tones while channel two provides Friedman's modern high gain; it is offered as a head and as a 1x12 combo.
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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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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.
Sources
Categories
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Electric Guitars
Solid-body, semi-hollow, and hollow electric guitars.
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Guitar amplifiers
Amplifiers designed for electric guitar.
Representative model
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Friedman BE-100
Amplifier · United States
The Friedman BE-100 'Brown Eye' is a 100-watt all-tube guitar amplifier head powered by four EL34 tubes, hand-wired in the USA. It pairs Friedman's BE and HBE high-gain drive channels with vintage-plexi cleans; the current BE-100 Deluxe expands it to three channels, adding a dedicated plexi clean borrowed from the Small Box.