Category: Sold Gallery

1968 Fender Tele, Rare Maple Cap Neck, Player’s Guitar

This is a 1968 Fender Tele with a rare maple cap neck. All of the late 60s(1967-1969) left handed Teles I’ve sold have had a rosewood fingerboard. Even most right handed late 60s Teles have the rosewood fingerboard. I was able to find a pristine right handed 1966 Tele with a maple cap neck that I sold to Joe Bonamassa earlier in the year: http://www.leftyvintageguitars.com/1966FenderTeleMapleCap.html

This is a player’s guitar, with many non-original parts. But it’s priced at about 1/3 of an all original late 60s left handed Tele with a rosewood fingerboard. The prize is clearly the factory left handed maple cap neck, dated 3SEP68, so the rest of the guitar is just icing on the cake.

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1962 VOX AC-4, 100% Original, EXC Condition, Rare Amp!

Up for sale, a 1962 Vox AC-4 in exceptional, collector-grade condition and in perfect working order. This early JMI tube amplifier is 100% original and complete, with original fawn tolex, brass vents, stock transformers, and even the stock “woodie” footswitch! Powered by a single EL84, this amp delivers classic Class A Vox tube tone at bedroom volumes, with a tone that actually stays quite clean. With simple Volume and Tone controls, the circuit is a pure platform for highlighting the guitar plugged into it, with a dynamic sound that can vary notably based on the pickups that are pushing the original 8″ speaker. The tremolo is particularly fantastic on this amp, with a thick, warbling three-dimensional quality that belies the amp’s small stature. Still wired for the original 240V power, this Vox comes equipped with a step-up transformer to convert the voltage from US to UK power while maintaining the amp’s originality.

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1967 Fender Tele, Twin Brother of a Killer Tele!

I had a really great 1967 Fender Tele last year. It played and sounded as good as any Tele I’ve had. I always wished I had another one like it. Well, it’s here!

This is a 1967 Fender Tele which is the twin brother of the earlier Tele: it has the same neck stamp/date( 3APR67B), pot codes within 2 weeks(137 6636), and identical neck depth – .87/1st, .92/12th. Body is stamped “ES,” which was Fender code for a special-order guitar.

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