Willies American Guitars

Dakota Red, an excellent example, all original and in good shape with original pickups and electronics. Does show some jean rivet wear on back and some nicks and scratches through the finish and finish checking throughout but in good shape overall, freshly set up and plays great, comes with an Ibanez hard shell case.

Natural, 25.5” scale, gloss finish, with upgraded European Alpine Moon Spruce top, East Indian Rosewood back and sides, great sounding new one from Larrivee, ebony fingerboard, 1 3/4” nut width for easy playing, abalone rosette, X braced for volume and maple bound body for comfort and great looks, comes with a new hard case. $4649 $3486.75

This is a great hand-wired reissue of Fender’s famous black-panel Deluxe Reverb amp, in like-new condition with very minimal wear. AB763 circuit, with four 12AX7 and two 12AT7 preamp tubes. 20 Watts, with a 12” Jensen C-12Q speaker. Quite light, and well suited to nearly any live or recording application. Comes with a padded cover and a footswitch (for tremolo and reverb). Made in Corona,...

Super light Korina wood. Today they are built by master luthier Clive Brown of England. These will please anyone who loves vintage tone and feel. Willie’s had this one off custom built for us and it took two years to complete. Made of the finest Korina (aka super mahogany) with enhanced responsiveness and a sweeter midrange than mahogany and lighter weight too. But, it’s very difficult to get....

Black with white binding, a killer Fender Custom Shop double bound Tele features include: alder body sorted for lightweight, weighs 7.5 pounds, journeyman relic nitro lacquer finish, quartersawn maple neck with a dark rosewood fretboard, clay dot inlays, narrow tall 6105 frets, 9.5” radius, 1.650” nut width, ’60 Oval C neck profile, .790” at the first and .930” at the 12 fret, great sounding...

Still “Fender Electric Instrument Co.” on front-end back of panel, with original Oxford 10” speaker dated September of 1964. The amp date code, inked in black on the tube chart, is “OF”, finished in June, 1965, circuit designation is AA964. Comes with original footswitch. A super-clean original example with only the power cord changed to a grounded plug. The featherweight “Fender Electric”-era...

A limited edition strat featuring artwork based on Jimi’s hand painted strat ceremoniously destroyed during his legendary Monterey Festival performace in 1967. In pretty much mint condition. Other features inlcude a pao ferro fretboard with clay dots, classic 60’s C neck profile, 7.25” radius, vintage frets, three vintage style strat pickups, 5 way selector switch, custom neck plate and Jimi’s...

Silverface era, massively oversized as was the style at the time for Fender extension cabinets, most notably seen in the Beatles “Let it Be” sessions, although somewhere there’s photos of Jimi Hendrix onstage with some of the even bigger 2x15” Dual Showman version of these in the backline. Big but not particularly heavy, multiple handles so you can get your bandmates to help you get it into the...

Dakota Red, late ’64 with ’65 features like a white guard, pearl dots. An all stock one owner guitar. No we will not be taking the neck off. Comes with the original hard case, trem arm and bridge cover.

Sunburst, in excellent condition, with Bigsby added long ago. We’ve said it before. 1953 is our favorite year neck shape. Like Goldilocks it feels just right, not too big and not too small with a very slight V up to the third fret and then a perfectly rounded C shape. A beautiful unbroken clean Jazz/Blues wonder. Currently set up with flat wounds for that authentic late 40’s early 50’s tone. This...

Natural, solid mahogany top, back and sides. A wonderfully worn guitar with an unbelievably open sound for its size. We would offer this to our best friend if we could. Oddly, there are no cracks. It has finish checking and every other nick and scratch known to man. It’s been refretted, you’re welcome! Has a nice big neck with a slight V and a 1 11/16” nut width. The bridge is newer Brazilian...

Sonic Blue on alder body, light aging, hard to find left handed Mustang style bass, rosewood fretboard with 10” radius and C neck profile. Great sounding Lollar Vintage Mustang pickup, three ply mint guard completes the look. An awesome US made lefty Mustang bass in a fantastic vintage style custom color that sounds and feels great. comes with a new gig bag.

Tobacco Sunburst, good looking plain maple top, all original and in excellent condition, no breaks or repairs, just a few light nicks and scratches on the top and back, dual humbuckers, gold hardware, bound ebony fretboard with block inlays, zero fret wear, seven layers of body binding and iconic split diamond headstock inlay, weighs in at 10.2 pounds, great guitar in a harder to find finish,...

Natural, all solid woods, dovetail neck joint, Sitka Spruce top, mahogany back and sides. This is in excellent condition, can’t find a scratch. A very hard to find used Larrivee Parlor guitar. Comes with the original paperwork and hard shell case.

A fully functional, very early (perhaps the earliest) multi-effects unit. “How bizarre…” is the first thing we said. It’s pretty logically laid out - simply follow the colors. The red switches (controlled by the knobs on the red panel with volume and tone are percussion and you can trigger of five fixed-pitch percussion sounds by hitting a string. Any single sound, any mix,or all at once…bizarre....

Sunburst, refinished. This cannon is an opportunity for someone that wants an early script logo J-45 for stage. First, the finish (except the back) will fool most. Second, the tone. These are famous for big full rich legendary tone. Third, it already has a pickup installed. It’s a Mojo Tone NC-2 mic blend sound hole pickup. No quacky transducer tone here. These have a natural tone and use common...

Ocean Turquoise, limited edition color in excellent condition. Like the crazy rare vintage Penguin, its chambered body has an arched maple top and mahogany back, sides and neck. Has a 24.6” scale, ebony fretboard with medium jumbo frets and 1.7” nut width and gold sparkle binding. The trim is over the top for a “wow” look including the big bold logo, arm rest, gold hardware and knobs with gold...

A Mark Sampson-era amp. Willie’s American Guitars was the largest dealer of Matchless amps in the USA during the period Mark Sampson owned the company. Both Mark and sales manager Fred Coyner were close friends of our store. We had one of the first C-30 1x12” combos, the first reverb unit, Willie still has a Lightning prototype. These amps are magic, the standard that all other boutique amps will...

Black, VG++. Rosewood fingerboard over a maple neck that has some flame. Single string tree. This has the standard 24” scale length of most Mustangs yet this one has pretty good depth to make it very comfortable. Black finish with black plastic, looks cool. Pickups sound good. Has its nice original black tolex hard case but has no trem arm.

Natural finish, VG+. Rather light for an ash body at 7.5 pounds. This was sold by Willie’s about a thousand guitars ago yet we all remember it. Worn from years of gigs and all the better for it. Resonant, great pickups, cool-looking. And yes, it’s been refretted (you’re welcome) so it’s ready for more fun. All-stock including cool case. Keith Richards owns a black ’74 he bought in Texas. This one...

Natural, a good-sounding acoustic electric with quite a bit of good honest playing wear on the top and back. Sitka Spruce top, three-piece Indian Rosewood back and Indian Rosewood sides, bound ebony fingerboard with style 28 pearl dot inlays, 1 3/4” nut width, modified low oval neck profile with high performance taper, scalloped 1/4” top bracing, factory Fishman Aura VT pickup, with dings and...

Natural, Sitka Spruce, gloss top, pretty grained rosewood back and sides. 24.75” scale, In good shape, no cracks or repairs, a few small nicks here and there scalloped braces, 1.73” nut width, rosewood fingerboard and bridge, tortoise pickguard, Grover tuners. Factory Fishman pickup with sound hole volume and tone controls. A nice USA-made J-45. Comes with the original hard case.

Three Color Sunburst, nitro lacquer finish, in excellent condition, just some very light playing wear, no abuse, nice dark rosewood fretboard with clay dots, all stock, nice and light at 8.2 pounds, a pretty great mid- period reissue, comes with the original bridge cover and trem arm in the original tweed hard case.

Early reissue, stack-knob Jazz Bass in stylish factory black nitrocellulose lacquer, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, and tortoise guard. Some wear and checking but overall reasonably clean, fully functional, structurally, mechanically, and electronically sound, including the cool concentric volume and tone controls for each pickup, all-original save for the D and G tuners, which...

Sunburst, great sounding example in a good looking finish. Also with an easy to play bigger neck and Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard and bridge (the better to hear you with my dear). This has several large repaired cracks. Repeat: these are all thoughtfully repaired. Otherwise, is all stock with no bracks on back or neck. And maybe because it is ladder-braced and all of the cracks are repaired it...

Natural, a timeless classic that has stood the test of time. The D-18 features a Sitka Spruce top and resonant mahogany back and sides, Has an unbound ebony fingerboard with style 18 dot inlays, a comfortable 1 3/4” nut width and a GE modified low oval profile with high performance taper for hours of easy playing. Forward shifted scalloped Golden Era bracing that enhances its powerful, articulate...

Natural, Sitka Spruce top with bold herringbone trim, Indian Rosewood back and sides, unbound ebony fingerboard with abalone diamond and square inlays, 1 3/4” nut width, modified low oval neck profile with high-performance taper, nickel open-back tuners, a modern classic, loud with plenty of clear low-end thump, all the guitar you may ever need. New standard features include an angled nut for...

Mahogany over mahogany. What a great sound...midrange for days. 25.4" scale, 1 11/16" nut width. X braced. Records incredibly well, present but without needing excessive corrective eq. Everyone should have a mahogany guitar at some point. Comes with a new deluxe gig bag.

Natural, 000 sized model features: solid mahogany top, back and sides, rosewood fingerboard with abalone diamond and short square short pattern inlays, 1 11/16” at the nut, modified low oval neck profile, non-scalloped top bracing, nickel open-back tuners with pearloid buttons, warm rich mahogany tone, these record so well, everyone should try one, comes with a new deluxe gig bag. $1699

All-tube head made in England. Very clean and original including its Drake transformers. So, a Park Model 1206 is essentially a Marshall Model 2204 (the great 50-watt EL34 master volume circuit designed by Steve Grindrod in 1975) with a different logo, silver control panel, and silver knob caps. Like the Marshall-branded amps of this period, it’s powered by a pair of EL34s, has three 12AX7s in...