Most Expensive Electric Guitars

Or it might mean the guitar that helps you learn or comes with you to your first band rehearsal.

Most expensive electric guitars.

See vg s 30 most valuable guitars. Read the full review. Top 10 most expensive guitars. Keith richards 1959 les paul standard the 1959 les paul standard is on its own known as the holy grail of electric guitars.

Data compiled by alan greenwood and gil hembree. Paul bigsby made approximately 23 electric guitars and most are accounted. The nocaster is the precursor to fender s telecaster the most popular solid body electric guitar in history. 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.

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. 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.

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. 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. To some choosing the best electric guitars in the world might mean a quest to find the most expensive most tricked out model available. The guitar has been classed as a national treasure by the jamaican government.

So it s no surprise that we ve got two of these beauties in the top 5 of. There s a more solidbody response here as you d expect and it really pushes out the sound. Marking his shift from acoustic to electric this guitar was played by bob dylan at 1965 newport folk festival. 5 most expensive guitar.

Vintage guitar is marking 25 years of publication with a year full of cool giveaways and features. Image 1 of 5. 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. The 1951 fender nocaster is an electric guitar with an interesting history.

Future image 3 of 5. Purchased by john lennon and george harrison in london in 1962. Concerned about buying a guitar online without playing it first. It s expensive but as an investment this is one of the best electric guitars on the market.

It was sold for record breaking 965 000 at christie s auction house in 2013. Gibson es 335 premiere figured. At number nine on the list of most expensive guitars in the world is bob dylan s 1964 sunburst fender stratocaster.