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If you crave collectable gear, Vintage Vault will feed your jones. Each month Dave Rogers, Laun Braithwaite, and Tim Mullally deliver gorgeous photos of some of the world’s finest vintage guitars and amps, along with the history behind each piece and essential background on its makers.
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Vintage Vault: 1962 Fender Telecaster Fiesta Red
October 10, 2018
A candy-colored and road-worn Tele with a few rare turns, including an ash body.
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Vintage Vault: 1977 Travis Bean TB1000A Artist
August 17, 2018
An aluminum-through-necked beauty that’s enjoying a renaissance in the world of heavy music.
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Vintage Vault: 1960s Kay Swingmaster K763
July 20, 2018
A semi-hollow player’s workhorse ready for a second life.
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Vintage Vault: 1955 Gibson L-5 CES
July 5, 2018
Marvel at this post-World War II hollowbody, worn by play but still intact and all original.
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Vintage Vault: 1979 Rickenbacker 362/12 Doubleneck
May 24, 2018
A rare bird in mapleglo that’s double the 6-string fun!
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Vintage Vault: 1960/’61 Hofner Committee
April 25, 2018
A rare-bird version of the German builder’s top-of-the-line acoustic archtop.
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Vintage Vault: 1965 Danelectro Model 3923 Doubleneck
March 27, 2018
A classic shorthorn that covers the highs and lows.
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Vintage Vault: 1967 Gibson Trini Lopez Standard
February 21, 2018
A vintage signature model benefits from “the Grohl Effect.”
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Vintage Vault: 1965 Guyatone LG-130T
January 17, 2018
A Bakelite-topped Japanese 6-string from a brand that charmed Cooder and Hendrix.
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Vintage Vault: 1950 Gibson ES-300
December 14, 2017
A classic double-P-90 model that helped introduce laminated-wood guitar bodies.
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Vintage Vault: 1955 Gretsch 6131 Jet Firebird
November 22, 2017
An eye-catching, cardinal-colored survivor from the early days of rock ’n’ roll.
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Vintage Vault: Gibson Firebird I Inverness Green
October 27, 2017
A rare custom-finished ’Bird from the Gibson space-age-design playbook.
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Vintage Vault: 1962 Epiphone Crestwood Custom
September 26, 2017
A deeper look at one of Epiphone’s first solidbody production models.
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Vintage Vault: 1966 Rickenbacker 375 Mapleglo
August 20, 2017
A classic Deluxe model, still lookin’ good a half-century later.
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Vintage Vault: 1960 Gretsch Chet Atkins Hollowbody Model 6120
July 27, 2017
Get ready to go ga-ga over a pristine specimen of the signature model that helped create "the Nashville sound."
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Vintage Vault: 1961 Gibson SG Special
May 28, 2017
A first-generation example of the double-P-90 model that Santana played at Woodstock.
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Vintage Vault: 1952 Fender Esquire
May 1, 2017
Spotlighting a pioneering solidbody from Fender’s pre-Strat years.
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Vintage Vault: 1957 Gibson Byrdland Natural
April 5, 2017
Nashville session guitarists helped develop a classy thinline alternative to heavy solidbodies and traditional jazz boxes.
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Vintage Vault: 1964 Gibson Thunderbird Bass
March 5, 2017
How art deco and ’60s marketing meshed in a classic low-ender.
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