Models
88 models
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Martin D-28
Dreadnought acoustic guitar
Acoustic guitar, Steel-string guitar · United States
A C. F. Martin Standard Series D-14 fret dreadnought acoustic guitar with spruce top, East Indian rosewood back and sides, and a 25.4-inch scale length.
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Gibson Les Paul
Solid body electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1952 as Gibson's first solid-body electric, the Les Paul pairs a mahogany body with a carved maple top and a glued-in neck. With its twin humbucking pickups, rich sustain, and thick tone, it stands alongside the Stratocaster as one of the two defining electric guitars of rock and blues.
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PRS Custom 24
Carved-top solid-body electric guitar model family
Electric guitar · United States
The guitar that launched Paul Reed Smith in 1985 and remains the company's flagship, the Custom 24 features a carved figured-maple top on a mahogany body, 24 frets, and a versatile pickup-switching system. Its blend of Fender- and Gibson-like qualities, fine craftsmanship, and bird inlays define the PRS identity.
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Parker Fly Deluxe
Flagship carbon-exoskeleton electric guitar
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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Rickenbacker 360
Semi-acoustic guitar made by Rickenbacker
Electric guitar · United States
A deluxe semi-hollow with rounded, bound body edges, the 360 is one of Rickenbacker's best-known guitars and is especially famous in its twelve-string form. Its shimmering tone helped shape the sound of the Beatles and the Byrds.
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Guild D-55
Guild's flagship rosewood dreadnought
Steel-string guitar, Acoustic guitar · United States
The Guild D-55 is the company's flagship dreadnought, an all-solid-wood guitar with a Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, scalloped Adirondack bracing, and a mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard. It is built in Oxnard, California and prized for its big, projecting voice.
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Bishline Cimarron
Resonator bluegrass banjo model
Banjo · United States
The Bishline Cimarron is one of Bishline Banjos' most popular resonator banjos, described by the maker as a bluegrass workhorse. It features a burl walnut resonator, a three-ply maple rim, a Bishline tone ring, an ebony fingerboard, and nickel-plated hardware. Bishline Banjos are handbuilt in Oklahoma.
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Deering Goodtime Banjo
Open-back five-string banjo
Banjo · United States
Deering's Goodtime open-back five-string banjo, a lightweight American-made student and general-purpose model.
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Gibson Lucille
Electric guitar model
United States
B.B. King's signature guitar, based on the ES-355 but built without f-holes to cut down on feedback at high volume. Named after King's own guitar, it features stereo wiring and a Varitone tone selector for a refined, smooth voice.
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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.
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Gold Tone OB-3 Twanger
Pre-war style resonator banjo
Banjo · United States
A Gold Tone Orange Blossom Twanger resonator banjo built around a maple rim.
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Strat Plus
Electric guitar model
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
Superstrat-style solid-body electric guitar model
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
S-style solid-body electric guitar model
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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Vega Old Tyme Wonder
Old-time open-back 5-string banjo
Banjo · United States
The Vega Old Tyme Wonder, built by Deering, is a lightweight old-time open-back five-string banjo with a steamed violin-grade maple rim, a frailing scoop, a fiberskyn head, and a no-knot tailpiece for a warm, woody string-band tone.
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Nash S-63
Aged S-style solid-body electric guitar model
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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Stelling Golden Cross
Curly maple bluegrass resonator banjo
Banjo · United States
The Stelling Golden Cross was the first Stelling model to carry the trademarked Stelling peghead shape; the current version features fancy curly maple with a golden sunburst stain and purfling inlaid along the neck and resonator binding.
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Parker Fly
Carbon-and-glass Fly series of electric guitars
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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Ome Juniper
Open-back five-string banjo model
United States
The Ome Juniper is an open-back five-string banjo handmade in Boulder, Colorado. It features a curly maple neck, a two-ply maple rim fitted with Ome's heavy rolled brass tone ring, an ebony fingerboard with a scoop, and aged brass hardware, producing a warm, responsive tone suited to clawhammer and old-time playing.
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Knaggs Severn
Double-cutaway solid-body electric guitar model
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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Nechville Galaxy Phantom
Heli-Mount resonator banjo model
United States
The Nechville Galaxy Phantom is a five-string bluegrass banjo built around Nechville's patented one-piece cast Heli-Mount frame, which replaces conventional hook-and-nut hardware. It combines a three-ply maple rim and nickel-plated bronze-alloy tone ring with a radiused fingerboard, a tunneled fifth string, and a quick-change neck connection.
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Huber VRB-3 Truetone
Pre-war style-3 bluegrass resonator banjo
Banjo · United States
The Huber VRB-3 Truetone recreates the pre-war style-3 flathead banjo, with a mahogany neck and resonator, the 1930s-style Huber HR-30 tone ring on a Huber engineered rim, and a vintage style-3 inlay pattern for a warm, classic bluegrass sound.
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Steinberger Spirit GT-PRO
Headless electric guitar model
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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Bishline Heirloom
Custom resonator banjo model
Banjo · United States
The Bishline Heirloom is a fully customizable resonator banjo from Bishline Banjos, offered in maple, mahogany, or walnut. It is one of the maker's standard hand-built bluegrass models from their Oklahoma workshop.
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Gibson Les Paul Standard
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar · United States
The benchmark Les Paul, with a carved maple top, two humbuckers, and a sunburst finish. Original 1958–1960 "Bursts" are among the most coveted electric guitars ever made, and the model defines the classic Les Paul sound.
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Collings 290
Mahogany solid-body electric guitar with P-90 pickups
Electric guitar · United States
The Collings 290 is a single-cutaway mahogany solid-body electric guitar inspired by the Les Paul Junior, with a solid mahogany body and neck, an East Indian rosewood fingerboard, a hand-set mortise-and-tenon neck joint, and P-90 pickups. It is hand-built in Austin, Texas.
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Rickenbacker 330
Semi-hollow electric guitar model family
Electric guitar · United States
A thinline semi-hollow electric and one of Rickenbacker's signature models, the 330 is known for its chiming, jangly tone and distinctive looks. It has been a defining instrument of jangle pop and folk rock.
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Fender American Professional II Stratocaster
Current Stratocaster production variant
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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Guild F-55
Rosewood jumbo flat-top acoustic guitar
Acoustic guitar, Steel-string guitar · United States
The Guild F-55 is an all-solid-wood jumbo with a Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, a comfortable C-shaped mahogany neck, and an ebony fingerboard. Built in Oxnard, California, it delivers the powerful low-end thump characteristic of a Guild jumbo.
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1954 Fender Stratocaster
First-year Stratocaster configuration
United States
A year-specific Stratocaster variant representing the model's first production year.
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Gibson ES-355
Semi hollow body electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
The deluxe member of the ES-335 family, the ES-355 adds multi-ply binding, an ebony fingerboard, gold hardware, and often stereo wiring with a Varitone tone selector. It is the upscale, fully appointed version of Gibson's classic semi-hollow design.
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Gibson SG Standard
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar · United States
The core version of the SG, with a slim mahogany double-cutaway body and two humbucking pickups. Light and aggressive, it is the model most players picture when they think of the SG.
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Gibson ES-335
Semi-acoustic guitar model
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1958, the ES-335 was the first commercially successful semi-hollow electric, pairing hollow wings with a solid maple center block. That design blends the warmth and resonance of a hollow body with the sustain and feedback resistance of a solid, making it one of the most versatile electrics ever built.
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Parker Fly Mojo
All-mahogany Parker Fly model
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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Guild F-512
Iconic rosewood jumbo 12-string acoustic guitar
Acoustic guitar, Steel-string guitar · United States
The Guild F-512 is the company's legendary jumbo 12-string, an all-solid-wood guitar with a Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, scalloped Adirondack bracing, a mahogany neck, and an ebony fingerboard. Built in Oxnard, California, it is renowned for its lush, shimmering 12-string voice.
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Gibson SG
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1961 as a radical redesign of the Les Paul, the SG has a thin, all-mahogany double-cutaway body with sharply pointed horns. Lightweight, fast-playing, and biting in tone, it became a rock mainstay in the hands of players like Angus Young and Tony Iommi.
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PRS Hollowbody II
Hollow-body electric guitar model family
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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Fender Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster
Electric guitar model
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
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.
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Deering Artisan Goodtime Six-R
Six-string resonator banjo
Banjo · United States
A six-string Deering Goodtime-family resonator banjo for guitar-style tuning and technique.
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Gibson Les Paul Classic Custom
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar · United States
A Les Paul that blends the slim-neck Classic platform with the upscale cosmetic appointments of a Custom, including extra body binding and fancier hardware. It offers Custom-style flash on a Classic-style instrument.
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Gibson Les Paul Studio
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar · United States
Introduced in 1983, the Les Paul Studio strips away cosmetic binding and luxury appointments to lower the price while keeping the mahogany-and-maple body and humbucking pickups that give the Les Paul its core tone. It was conceived as a no-frills working musician's instrument.
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Gold Tone Orange Blossom
Pre-war-style bluegrass banjos
United States
Gold Tone's Orange Blossom (OB) series of pre-war-style bluegrass banjos, featuring three-ply maple rims, one-piece flanges, and flathead tone rings that evoke the classic Mastertone-style instruments.
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Eric Clapton Stratocaster
Signature electric guitar model of Eric Clapton
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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Gibson Les Paul Faded DC
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar · United States
A double-cutaway Les Paul finished in a satin, worn-looking "faded" nitrocellulose finish. The stripped-back cosmetics keep the price down while the twin-cutaway body improves access to the upper frets.
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Gibson Les Paul Junior
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar · United States
A no-frills Les Paul introduced in 1954 as an affordable student model, built from a slab mahogany body with a single P-90 pickup. Its simple, raw, and powerful tone has made it a long-standing favorite of punk and rock players.
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Music Man Axis
Double-cut solid-body electric guitar family
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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Gibson Les Paul Classic
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar · United States
A Les Paul that combines a vintage-styled look with a slim 1960s-profile neck and higher-output pickups, originally marketed with a "1960" theme. It was designed to deliver classic Les Paul character with a faster-playing feel.
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Martin D-18
Spruce-and-mahogany dreadnought acoustic guitar
Acoustic guitar, Steel-string guitar · United States
The Martin D-18 is a 14-fret dreadnought with a solid spruce top and solid mahogany back and sides, prized for its dry, punchy, woody voice. A cornerstone of the Standard Series, it is handmade in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
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Friedman NoHo 24
USA-built double-cutaway electric guitar with Triple D humbuckers
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.