Most Expensive Electric Guitars

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Most expensive electric guitars.

Most offer between 30 45 days to return an item as long as it s in. To some choosing the best electric guitars in the world might mean a quest to find the most expensive most tricked out model available. There s not all that many of them still in existence and even for one not owned by anybody particularly famous you re going to pay six figures for one. Keith richards 1959 les paul standard the 1959 les paul standard is on its own known as the holy grail of electric guitars.

The 1951 fender nocaster is an electric guitar with an interesting history. Vintage guitar is marking 25 years of publication with a year full of cool giveaways and features. Everybody has a different opinion on what makes the best electric guitar for them. The guitar has been classed as a national treasure by the jamaican government.

Online music instrument retailers like thomann guitar center musician s friend and sweetwater offer hassle free returns as standard so you can purchase a guitar play it in the privacy of your home and send it back if it s not right. At number nine on the list of most expensive guitars in the world is bob dylan s 1964 sunburst fender stratocaster. Paul bigsby made approximately 23 electric guitars and most are accounted. Marking his shift from acoustic to electric this guitar was played by bob dylan at 1965 newport folk festival.

This month we continue the celebration with a list of the 25 guitars that thanks to certain players songs and the laws of supply and demand have become exceedingly valuable. Purchased by john lennon and george harrison in london in 1962. The nocaster is the precursor to fender s telecaster the most popular solid body electric guitar in history. See vg s 30 most valuable guitars.

Or it might mean the guitar that helps you learn or comes with you to your first band rehearsal. Formerly the most expensive guitar was the reach out to asia guitar sold at a charity auction on 16 november 2005. Supposedly one of the first electric washburn guitars ever made marley rarely played the washburn and gave it to his guitar tech gary carlsen. So it s no surprise that we ve got two of these beauties in the top 5 of.

It s expensive but as an investment this is one of the best electric guitars on the market. The only acoustic guitar to make it on our list of the most expensive guitars in the world had to be something special and boy is it special. Read the full review. Image 1 of 5.

It was sold for record breaking 965 000 at christie s auction house in 2013. Data compiled by alan greenwood and gil hembree. These rare electric guitars were initially called broadcaster during the initial run in 1950. There s a more solidbody response here as you d expect and it really pushes out the sound.

Image 2 of 5 image credit. John lennon s 1962 gibson j 160 e electric acoustic was one of a pair of almost identical acoustic guitars. Gibson es 335 premiere figured.