Models

Danelectro 59

Double-cut electric guitar model family

Electric guitar

A reissue of Danelectro's classic late-1950s design, built with a Masonite-and-plywood body, a bolt-on neck, and bright-sounding lipstick-tube pickups. Inexpensive yet distinctive, it delivers a jangly, slightly lo-fi tone that has charmed players for decades.

Supro Dual Tone

Solid-body electric guitar model family

Electric guitar · United States

A 1950s and 1960s electric from Valco's Supro brand, fitted with two pickups and known for its raw, gritty tone. Associated with players from Link Wray to Jimmy Page, it has become a sought-after vintage instrument.

Friedman Vintage-T

USA-built T-style electric guitar with P-90 pickups

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.

Danelectro '56

Single-cutaway Masonite-body electric guitar

Electric guitar

A single-cutaway electric guitar made by the American brand Danelectro, a reissue of Nathan Daniel's original 1956 U2 design. Like all classic Danos it uses a lightweight Masonite-and-poplar semi-hollow body, lipstick-tube pickups and a Coke-bottle/dolphin-nose headstock, delivering the bright, hollow Danelectro voice.

Macmull T-Classic

T-style electric guitar

The T-Classic is Macmull Custom Guitars' T-style model, hand-built in Israel using the brand's high-quality components and hand-wound pickups. It uses Macmull's T-Classic hardtail bridge with the option of top-loading or string-through stringing.

Macmull Heartbreaker

Single-cutaway electric guitar

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.

Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster

Telecaster-style solid-body electric guitar model

Electric guitar

The Squier Classic Vibe '50s Telecaster recreates the look and tone of a 1950s Telecaster, with a pine body, a maple neck and fingerboard, a 25.5-inch scale, 21 narrow-tall frets, two Fender-Designed alnico single-coil pickups in an SS layout, and a vintage-style string-through-body Telecaster bridge with barrel saddles.

Squier Affinity Series Telecaster

Telecaster-style solid-body electric guitar model

Electric guitar

The Squier Affinity Series Telecaster is an affordable, lightweight Telecaster, with a thin poplar body, a slim C-shaped maple neck, a 25.5-inch scale, 21 frets, two Squier single-coil Telecaster pickups in an SS layout with three-way switching, and a string-through-body bridge.

Nash T-63

Aged T-style solid-body electric guitar model

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.