Fender 2001 American Tobacco Sunburst Stratocaster with Case Used

This Strat (serial #ZI 003886 ) is in perfect condition. Just like it's 2001 today!!. It comes with the accessories you see in the picture. More pictures are available on request.

Specs:

• American Series Stratocaster
• Accessories: Standard Molded Case
• Controls: 1 tone pot, 1 "no load" tone pot in bridge position, Master Volume, 5 way switch
• Finishe:3-Color Sunburst
• Bridge: 2 point American Synchronized Tremolo
• Neck: "C" shape, Maple or Rosewood Fret board, Radius: 9.5 inch, Width at Nut 1.6875", Scale length 25.5"
• Guitar Body: Alder, Original Body Shape. Pick up cavity cut closer to vintage style.
• Special Features: "Parchment" pickup covers and control knobs, "Original Contour Body" logo on headstock, Rolled fret board edges.
• Pickups: 3 American Series pickups.
• Tuning keys: Staggered tuning keys with 1 string tree.
• Synthetic bone nut

Fender 2001 American Tobacco Sunburst S...

Fender 2001 American Tobacco Sunburst S...

Fender 2001 American Tobacco Sunburst S...

While not widely known, Giffin Guitars have been played by some of the lendary guitarists of Rock. This is a 2002 custom guitar that he made while still in LA. It has 2 Seymour Duncan pickups. Besides being in great condition, it sounds great!. It includes a gigbag.

There's a couple of minor blemishes on the back near the volume plate, a nick near the jack and a nick on the back of the horn. You can see by the pictures they're all minor.

Giffin Guitars started in England, where it existed in various forms from the late 60's up until the mid 80's.  During those years he was fortunate enough to hook up with a lot of very good musicians.  This gave him the opportunity and encouragement to design and build guitars that became widely accepted in England at that time.

Regular customers included Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend and John Entwhistle (The Who), Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), Andy Summers (The Police) David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), and many more.  Hundreds of quality, reasonably priced guitars were made at "Giffin Guitars."

In the late '70s, he was designing a prototype guitar that became the  Steinberger 'M' series.

It was because of this guitar that he was offered the job to run Gibson's West Coast custom shop in Los Angeles.  He needed a change at that point, and jumped at the opportunity.         

In 1988 he moved to California. Once in L.A. and , employed by Gibson, he started building Gibson Custom instruments and fronting the Gibson West Coast repair shop. During this time, he built many different Gibson custom guitars, while the "Giffin" side of things was "on a slow burner."

   The client list during this time included names like Eddie Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jimmy Page and Malcolm Young, among many others.  He ran the Gibson custom shop up until Dec. '93 together with my co-worker and good friend  Gene Baker.  At that point it was decided that the whole Gibson operation was to be moved to Nashville.

  In early 94', he started R&B instrument Services (on Sunset Blvd.).  For the next three years he were kept very busy mainly on repairs and service.  Then, in the spring of '97,  He started making guitars on his own again.

He worked in Los Angeles up until June of 2004 building small quantities of hand made guitars from his home. 

  In July 2004, he moved once again, and now is operating from Portland, Oregon.

While not widely known, Giffin Guitars ...

While not widely known, Giffin Guitars ...

While not widely known, Giffin Guitars ...

The original Gretsch Jet guitars are all virtually identical single cutaways, other than color.The DuoJet and SilverJet were first released in 1954.The early Jets had two DeArmond pickups and block markers. The DuoJet was black with some finished in Cadillac Green, but they’re pretty rare. Even more rare - the Bigsby B-3 tremolo that was an extra-cost option. , the FireBird was a deep red, and the SilverJet was, of course, capped in silver sparkle plastic drum material.
Since those early days, the Jet family has come to encompass a dizzying array of guitars, yet all are still instantly identifiable as Gretsch’s premier “solidbody” guitars. Even though they’re typically nearly hollow.

Jets differ significantly from their competition in that their mahogany bodies are extensively routed, making them, in effect, semi-solids. It also makes them considerably lighter than similar guitars and adds a special resonance to the line.

A big change came in 1961, when the Jets became double cutaways. The first double cutaways are roughly equivalent to the earlier Jets, but shortly after the changeover Gretsch began to change the Jets.

Vibrato tailpieces became standard in ‘62, but they weren’t Bigsbys. Instead, a Burns-sourced whammy was used. Other changes to ‘62 included gold hardware replacing chrome and other sparkle finishes, including gold, champagne, burgundy and tangerine being offered. Gretsch made few Jets with the special sparkle finishes, and they’re quite rare today. A standby switch was also added in ‘62.

The body is 13 1/4 inches wide, maple top, two pickups. Gretsch used drum casing material for the sparkle, gluing it to the maple top.

This is a modified 63 SilverJet. The serial number is verified with Gretch's serial list so it's a real, not reissued or wanta be, vintage guitar. While it's a vintage guitar it's made to be played, not hung on the wall. You could hang it on the wall but you'd miss the sound and playability of this great guitar.

You can see in the picture there's no pickguard but there are holes for where it went. The hardware is still Chrome and there's a Bigsby 7 vibrato tailpiece with a roller bridge added. The addition of the Bigsby may or may not have been done at the factory since it was at times an option when Gretsch made a built to order guitar. The same may be true of the chrome hardware. The exact history has been lost of this guitar thru the different owners.

The original bridge and  Burns tailpiece never worked well so many guitars were modified after being made by their owners. The roller bridge is a late addition making the Bigsby work much better and the guitar now stays in tune. Just what a player would want!

The back and of the guitar looks like it may have been refinished. This is because the neck may have been sanded down some to make it play faster for a previous owner. In any case the guitar has a great fast neck!

The front of this SilverJest is in almost perfect condition. There's a couple of "cracks" on the lower front thar are noticeable when the light is just right but can't be seen otherwise. The ebony neck is in great shape and appears to be original with little fret or fretboard wear. There's a couple of small scratches and dents on the back and sides but are hardly noticeable. given it's age it's in great shape for a players guitar.

The case is believed to be original and in great condition considering it's age. There's more pictures available if you'd like to see more views of the guitar, just click on sales to send us email.

The original Gretsch Jet guitars are al...

The original Gretsch Jet guitars are al...

The original Gretsch Jet guitars are al...

This guitar is in near perfect condition. In perhaps the best color (Natural) of the many that were made. The neck looks like it's been played a lot but that's because the neck isn't finished, as per Eddie, the neck was only gunstock oil and hand-rubbed special wax blend, not finished as most maple necks are. There's three small chips on the top back side. This is a handmade guitar not a mas produced one. The serial number is 86985. It plays great and of course has that Eddie Van Halen sound!!!

The quality of the tops on the Music Man EVH guitars are fantastic making them some of the most beautiful guitars ever produced of the Eddie Van Halen Signature Guitars. The quality of the tops was very consistent throughout the production life of this guitar.  There are also quite a few beautiful colors to choose from.  The guitar's sound corresponds more to the earlier EVH sound. The neck on the Music Man is 1-9/16" at the nut.

According tot Music Man, they produced approximately 6000 of these guitars from January of 1990 to September of 1995 when the last one rolled out the door.

The most common colors are red, gold (amber), blue and purple with about 1400 of each.  This includes the stop tails as approximately 200 of the red, purple and amber were stop tails (about 600 total of these).  There are about 600 trans black and 600 sunburst.  About 400 Naturals were made  They only made about 200 pink.  Green is said to be the third rarest color with 96 total pieces produced.  The rarest color is solid black at 16 pieces, followed by solid gold at 26 pieces.

When changing the strings always leave one string with tension.  Ernie Ball says you can very easily ruin the neck and your guitar by releasing the string tension without loosening the truss rod.  It is a very bad idea to ship the guitar with loose strings or without strings unless you had adjusted the truss rod. 

Here are the details on the Ernie Ball Music Man EVH model guitar.

All MusicMan EVH's were hand made and assembled per the original agreement with EVH. Included in this agreement was a limited production run of only 1,000 guitars per year. However, demand was so high orders quickly became backlogged with some wait times up to 18 months.

Specs:

• Body wood(s): Solid Basswood with Flamed Maple Top
• Neck wood: Birdseye Maple, Gunstock oil and hand-rubbed special wax blend
• Neck Joint: 5 bolt contoured heel neck joint
• Fretboard: Maple with 10" radius
• Fretboard Scale: 25.5
• Number of frets: 22
• Pickups: 2 DiMarzio EVH Custom humbucking Zebra
• Controls: Master volume, 3-way pickup selector
• MusicMan® Floyd Rose licensed locking tremolo with fine tuners - lowers pitch only.

This guitar is in near perfect conditio...

This guitar is in near perfect conditio...

This guitar is in near perfect conditio...