Models
14 models
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Fano Alt de Facto JM6
Hand-built vintage-inspired electric guitar
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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D'Angelico Excel EXL-1
Hollow-body archtop guitar model
South Korea
The Excel EXL-1 is a 17-inch single-cutaway hollow-body archtop electric guitar inspired by John D'Angelico's original Excel introduced in 1947. It pairs a laminated spruce top with laminated flame maple back and sides, a set three-piece neck with a C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard, and a 25.5-inch scale. A single floating Seymour Duncan Johnny Smith mini-humbucker, a floating ebony bridge, and the brand's stairstep tailpiece give it a woody, articulate tone for jazz rhythm and lead.
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Fano Alt de Facto GF6
Offset semi-hollow hand-built electric guitar
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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Friedman Cali
USA-built S-style electric guitar with humbuckers and a Floyd Rose
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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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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Ovation Elite 2078AX
Multi-soundhole deep-contour roundback acoustic-electric
Acoustic guitar, Steel-string guitar · United States
The Ovation Elite 2078AX is a deep-contour cutaway roundback acoustic-electric featuring a deluxe AA solid spruce top with LX scalloped bracing, Ovation's signature multiple upper-bout soundholes inlaid with exotic hardwoods, a five-piece mahogany and maple neck, and the OP-Pro Studio preamp with onboard compressor.
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Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 2
San Dimas Style 2 electric guitar model
Mexico
Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 2 is cataloged within the Charvel San Dimas electric guitar family.
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Gretsch White Falcon
Hollow-body electric guitar model family
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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Gretsch Country Gentleman
Hollow-body electric guitar model family
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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Squier Contemporary Stratocaster Special
Modern Stratocaster-style solid-body electric guitar model
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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Friedman Metro-D
USA-built set-neck single-cutaway electric guitar with humbuckers
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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Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HH
Superstrat electric guitar model
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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Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1
San Dimas Style 1 electric guitar model
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
USA-built S-style electric guitar with HSS pickups
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.