Models

7 models

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Technical line drawing of F Bass AC Signature

    F Bass AC Signature

    Alain Caron signature semi-chambered fretless bass model

    Canada

    The AC Signature is a semi-chambered fretless bass developed with Canadian jazz bassist Alain Caron since the mid-1980s. It has a chambered figured-maple body with a Canadian spruce top and sound hole, a three-piece maple neck, and a Gabon ebony fingerboard, voiced by an F Bass stacked single-coil bridge pickup combined with an RMC piezo bridge system and the F Bass 9V three-band preamp. It is offered fretless as standard, with a fretted option, in four-, five-, and six-string versions.

  • Technical line drawing of F Bass AC Classic

    F Bass AC Classic

    Alain Caron 'upright reinvented' fretless bass model

    Canada

    The AC Classic is a fretless bass developed with Alain Caron and billed as 'the upright reinvented,' built in Canada to deliver an acoustic, upright-style voice. It pairs a chambered figured-maple body with a redwood top and extra chambering under the bridge, a three-piece maple neck, a Gabon ebony fingerboard, and LaBella black-nylon tapewound strings, voiced by an F Bass stacked single-coil bridge pickup and a Fishman piezo system in a handmade ebony bridge. It is offered fretless in four-, five-, and six-string versions.