Models
5 models
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Silvertone 1448
Student-model electric guitar family
Electric guitar · United States
An entry-level electric sold by Sears under the Silvertone name and built by Danelectro, famous for shipping in a carrying case with a built-in tube amplifier and speaker. It introduced countless American teenagers to electric guitar in the early 1960s.
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Supro Belmont
Single-pickup Res-O-Glas solid-body electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
A single-pickup solid-body electric guitar from the American Valco-era brand Supro. Later examples used Valco's distinctive moulded 'Res-O-Glas' fibreglass body, giving the Belmont a light, resonant character and the mid-focused Supro tone prized by slide and blues players.
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Supro Ozark
Early single-pickup solid-body electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
One of the first solid-body electric guitars from the American Valco-era brand Supro, dating to the early 1950s. A compact single-cutaway solidbody with a single pickup, the Ozark is famous as the model on which a teenage Jimi Hendrix is said to have started, and its midrange-forward voice suited slide playing.
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Harmony Stratotone
Early neck-through solid-body electric guitar
Electric guitar
An early American solid-body electric guitar from the Chicago maker Harmony, launched in 1952 - only two years after the Fender Broadcaster. The H44 Stratotone used a clever neck-through body with glued-on wings and a single pickup to keep costs down, and was played by Ritchie Valens and Carl Perkins.
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Danelectro Convertible
Thinline hollow-body acoustic/electric guitar
Electric guitar
A thinline hollow-body guitar made by the American brand Danelectro, sold inexpensively as an acoustic that could be 'converted' to electric by adding a lipstick pickup kit. It pairs a floating bridge and separate tailpiece with the brand's light Masonite construction.