Craigslist Vintage Guitar Hunt

Looking for a Vintage guitar or amp? Trying to find a fair selling price for your vintage guitar? Just enjoy looking at cool, funky, unusual guitars? Well this is the blog for you. I AM NOT SELLING THESE ITEMS and you cannot contact sellers via the comments section of this blog. You must click thru to the original Craigslist postings. Do not post comments here asking to buy the item! LOOK AT THE DATE ON THE POSTING! Most of these items are no longer for sale. - Jim C.

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

1956 Rickenbacker M-11 Tube combo Amp in Southern California for $600

1956 RICKENBACKER M-11 Tube Combo Amp This seller is offfering a cool and rare 1956 Rickenbacker M-11 tube Combo for only $600. These are similar to a Tweed Deluxe from the same period. Made in SoCal at the Rickenbacker Electro Factory. I have an M-8 from a few years later and it is one of my favorite samll amps. Just super clear and glassy tone that compresses nicely and gets gritty as you crank it up past 5. Of course that is a 5 watt amp and this M-11 is more like 15-18 watts. These are really well built. Similar to the Magnatone amps of the time. - Jim C *****************************

Okay, I've apparently overestimated the fervor vintage tube amp geeks (myself included) feel for vintage Rickenbackers. Fair enough. I'm dropping the price on this wonderful little piece of American tube amp history so as to send it off to a new owner, hoping he or she will live to see the day when these amps are held in higher regard for their place in SoCal's considerable musical instrument manufacturing history. Here's the skinny: This is a time capsule piece of Rickenbacker history. It's been played for sure, but it's 100% original right down to the tubes (and tube sleeves!). Everything on this vintage amplifier is as it was when it was made in Los Angeles shortly after F.C. Hall purchased the Electro String Company from Adolph Rickenbacker in 1953. The tubes - a Telefunken 12ax7 in V1, RCA 12au7 in V2, two RCA Blackplate 6v6s in V3 and V4, and an RCA Blackplate 5y3 in V5 - all have date codes near the end of 1956. They alone are worth a few hundred bucks! The speaker is an original cone Jensen P12R dated the 47th week of 1956. The transformers, caps, resistors and wiring are all original as well. Everything is! The grey tolex has its share of battle scars, and is lifting in some spots. The control panel has some pitting, which is to be expected from a 64 year old. The power cord is the old "lamp" style, and is of course original. I am the second owner of this amp. The original owner played the hell out of it, obviously! It sounds wonderful: nice and nasty, much like a 1950s Fender tweed Deluxe. All I did to this amp was clean the tube sockets and De-Ox the pots. Amazingly, it's now good to go. I am not open to any trades whatsoever, save a 1964-1976 Fender Deluxe Reverb, and if needed, some cash on my end. I won't ship this amp. You can pick it up socially-distanced style here in Southern California. I'll let you test it, of course, outside on my porch, and you gotta wear a mask, so if that's a problem, forget about it. I'm including a ton of good photos with this, but if there's something else you'd like to see please contact me. Thanks for looking! Call or text Mick 310

Monday, October 12, 2020

1957 Danelectro Silvertone U2 in Philly for $700

This seller is offering a nice fully original 1957 Danelectro made Silvertone U2 for $700.00 That is a very good price for this guitar in such nice condition.

Please somebody buy it from this guy before I call my 84 year old mother in Philly and ask her to drive over there and grab it for me LOL!

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1957 Danelectro Silvertone U2 - $700 (Mt Airy)

Plays great and in amazing condition for a 63 year old vintage guitar. Comes with the original case!

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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

This seller is offering a nice Epiphone All Tube Amplifier from the mid-1960's. I used to own one just like this many years ago and I liked is quite a bit - had its own unique tone. Not super loud so perfect for Bedroom or home studio. And this price is a good deal for an all original vintage USA made amp of this quality. Has the original speaker. Even a cap job and replaced 3 prong grounded cord.

She's not the prettiest girl at the dance but boy can she sing. - Jim C.

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Vintage Epiphone Pathfinder EA-28RVT - $300

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condition: good
make / manufacturer: Epiphone
model name / number: EA-28RVT

Circa 1964-65 Epiphone Pathfinder EA-28RVT tube combo guitar amp. This is the same amplifier as the Gibson GA-19RVT Falcon. During the early to mid sixties these amps were all built at the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, MI. This one is a bit of a road warrior, with one knob missing, but is fully functional and sounds great. Tube reverb and tremolo circuits, very lush and deep sounding. 15 watts, original 12” Jensen speaker, original foot switch, original tubes except for two Mesa 6V6GTAs. It has had a cap job and a grounded three prong power cord installed. Really a sweet “around the house” amp for practice and recording.

Monday, September 16, 2019

Vintage 1952 Fender Wide Panel Tweed Deluxe amp in Nashville TN for $850

This seller appears to be offering a vintage 1952 Fender Deluxe Amp (5B3 circuit) for $850. I cannot speak to the authenticity of the amp of the seller but based on the rest of the ad this seems to be a music gear shop of some type and the other amps they ar selling seem to be in line with their vintage value - only this one is priced well below market value, so there may be some issues (other than the capacitor aspect he mentions in the ad).

I don't think I've ever seen a Wide Panel 1950's Tweed Deluxe for sale in California for less than $2K but maybe this one is not what it appears to be. Still it should be worth taking a look if you are anywhere near this Nashville area seller. - Jim C.

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1952 Fender deluxe - $850 (Old Old Hickory)

Bridgeway near Rayon Drive

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condition: good
make / manufacturer: Fender

Original 1952 fender deluxe good condition works well sounds great could use a little love’n up
Maybe take to the Amp doctor and have capacitors checked but for the price you’re getting the real deal and it is in playable condition now and does sound wonderful great for studio work and that greasy harmonica sound
Many more vintage Fender Tube amps( 2015 1959 re- issueMarshall half stack slant cab 412” greenbacks all point to point excellent condition $2200)
Music man amp head HD130 $550
1965 Fender tremolux amp 2 10” Webber speakers, sounds beautiful! $1600
Genuine 1954 Champ amp 6 W with 6 inch speaker sounds beautiful and is in beautiful condition $750
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IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL READERS

I am reposting items here that are listed on CRAIGSLIST throughout the USA. I am not selling any of these items and I cannot facilitate the sale of anything here - so please do not comment or post questions like "Is this still available?" or "I am interested in your guitar please call me, etc." You need to contact the seller directly by calling the phone number listed on the post or by going to the CL listing and emailing them. NEW FEATURE: Click on the title of the CL Listing inside my post to LINK thru to the original Post. If the original CL listing is deleted the item most likely is no longer available. Thanks for checking out my blog and GOOD LUCK!

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