Models
Every model, most significant first.
21 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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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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Harmony Rocket
Hollow-body electric guitar family
Electric guitar
A hollow-body electric from the American budget maker Harmony, popular in the 1960s. With its thin archtop body and gold-foil-style pickups, the Rocket offered an affordable, characterful tone that has been rediscovered by modern players.
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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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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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Epiphone G-400
Solid body electric guitar model
Electric guitar
Epiphone's version of the Gibson SG, the G-400 reproduces the thin double-cutaway mahogany body and twin humbuckers of the original at an accessible price. It is a popular gateway into the SG's lightweight, aggressive feel.
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Epiphone Les Paul 100
Electric guitar model
Electric guitar
An entry-level Epiphone Les Paul aimed at beginners, offering the familiar single-cutaway body and dual-humbucker layout of the Les Paul at a low price. It is a common first electric guitar.
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Teisco Spectrum
Offset electric guitar family
Electric guitar · Japan
A striking offset electric from the Japanese maker Teisco in the 1960s, the Spectrum is a cult favorite among collectors of vintage Japanese guitars. It is known for its bold styling and unconventional multi-pickup design.
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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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Silvertone 1457
Two-pickup 'amp-in-case' student electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
A two-pickup version of Sears' famous 'amp-in-case' electric guitar set, sold under the Silvertone house brand and built by Danelectro. Introduced in 1964 to succeed the single-pickup 1448, it pairs a short-scale 18-fret slab body and twin lipstick pickups with a carrying case containing a built-in tube amplifier and speaker.
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Silvertone 1478
Harmony-built 'Silhouette' double-cutaway electric guitar
Electric guitar · United States
A double-cutaway solid-body electric guitar sold under Sears' Silvertone house brand and built by Harmony. Its 'Silhouette' body - also sold by Harmony as the Bobkat - and twin pickups made it a popular 1960s student and garage-rock guitar.
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Parker Nitefly
Bolt-on Parker electric guitar with Fishman piezo
Electric guitar
A more affordable Parker electric guitar with a conventional bolt-on neck, offered with single-coil or humbucking pickups plus Parker's signature blendable Fishman piezo system. The Nitefly carries the brand's slim, ergonomic feel in a more traditional double-cutaway form.
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Parker MaxxFly
Revised Fly-derived electric guitar (2010)
Electric guitar
Introduced in 2010, the MaxxFly is a Fly-derived Parker electric guitar with a revised, more conventional headstock and upper horn, standardized pickup cavities, a slightly thicker body and 22 frets. It was Parker's updated take on the carbon-reinforced Fly concept under U.S. Music Corp ownership.
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Höfner Club 40
Thin hollow-body electric guitar without soundholes
Electric guitar
A small, thin hollow-body electric guitar made by the German maker Höfner from the mid-1950s, built without soundholes. The Club series (Club 40, 50 and 60) was popular with British players in the early 1960s; John Lennon's first electric guitar was a Höfner Club 40 he bought in Liverpool in 1959.
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Höfner President
Single-cutaway hollow-body archtop electric guitar
Electric guitar
A hollow-body archtop electric guitar made by the German maker Höfner, produced from the mid-1950s into the early 1970s. One of Höfner's best-known vintage electrics, it was offered in full-depth and thinline bodies and in non-cutaway and Florentine-cutaway forms, with pickups that evolved across the production run. George Harrison played a Höfner President early in his time with The Beatles.
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Jackson Pro Series KE3 Kelly
Explorer-style electric guitar model
Electric guitar · Indonesia
The Jackson Pro Series KE3 Kelly is an angular, Explorer-derived guitar with an alder body, a maple neck, a rosewood fingerboard, a 25.5-inch scale, two humbucking pickups, and a Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo, produced in Jackson's Pro Series during the 2000s.
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Höfner Galaxie
1960s solid-body electric guitar
Electric guitar
A solid-body electric guitar made by the German maker Höfner in the 1960s. Following Höfner's earlier V-series and Colorama solidbodies, the Galaxie sold well to aspiring electric players of the decade and is now a sought-after vintage piece.
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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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Harmony Bobkat
1960s double-cutaway solid-body electric guitar
Electric guitar
A 1960s double-cutaway solid-body electric guitar from the American maker Harmony, sold as an affordable beginner instrument as the Stratotone line was phased out. The Bobkat typically carried one or two single-coil pickups and shared its 'Silhouette' body with Sears Silvertone equivalents.
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Harmony Meteor
Single-cutaway thinline hollow-body electric guitar
Electric guitar
A single-cutaway thinline hollow-body electric guitar from the American maker Harmony, introduced in the late 1950s. A sibling to the larger Rocket, the H70-series Meteor became a sought-after vintage instrument prized for its warm, jangly hollow tone.