I have been asked by Rob's wife to handle requests from other friends wanting to purchase one of his guitars or amps. I will be posting pictures of the instruments for sale, and I will be listing them along with what I feel is a fair price.
I will be entertaining offers, but I would hope that Rob's friends would be respectful enough of Shirley, and of Rob, to offer a fair price. The money will be going to Shirley to help her with expenses and to help finance the reopening of our beloved Hill Country Humidor.
Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in any of the guitars or amps shown here. The blog won't be up forever, as Shirley has made arrangements to auction the guitars off through an auction business. She has however, decided to give Rob's friends and customers a chance to own one of the instruments first.
I can be reached at AndrewGrantMazak "at" gmail.com or http://www.facebook.com/grant.mazak if you have an interest in something.
Most of these guitars have never been "gigged" although they were played. Some of them look like they were put in the gig bag and never touched after Rob bought them. The gig bags do have an aroma of cigar smoke. If the aroma bothers you, the bags can be replaced fairly cheaply. It appears that most of the guitars led a charmed life as I see very few dings or marks on them. Many of them come with gig bags, some have hard shell cases, some have nothing. Considering the scope of this project. I just didn't have time to figure that all out. Contact me with any questions concerning cases/bags.
And here they are in no particular order. I will eventually have all the guitars posted here, but I can only do so many at one time.
Here are some new Posts. More to come!
Mexican made Telecaster standard with dark blue metallic finish, and Les Paul style barrel knobs. Also in excellent condition. With gig bag. Cool color, nice guitar, only $350.00
Seagull Coastline series grand. (SOLD This is a parlor guitar with a solid cedar top. It comes with the original heavy duty gig bag. It has a semigloss finish and is in excellent condition. Estimated value is $250-$300
Ibanez AH10 Alan Holdsworth model. Very rare instruments now. I could definitely make money on ebay with this one. One hum bucking pickup and a floating tremolo. Comes with non original gig bag and strap. In very good condition. Estimated value. $375.00
Mexican Standard Strat. It's in near mint condition and has a perfect weight and ridiculously low action. Definitely a great player. Really nice burst too. Fender gig bag. Estimated value. $350.00 It's a really good one!
Holy Cow! This thing still has the protective covering over the pick guard. Sometimes when a particularly nice guitar came into the store, Rob would hear about it and come by. I think this was one of those guitars, The finish is beautiful, resonant weight, and the guitar is like brand new. With gig bag. Mexican made Deluxe Nashville Telecaster. Estimated value. $475.00
Squire short scale acoustic bass guitar short scale makes it more comfortable to play. Squire makes it affordable. also in excellent condition. Estimated value is (just a guess) $250.00 (full disclosure, Shirley may want to keep this one)
Japanese vintage reissue tele. (SOLD) Absolutely beautiful. The Japanese make some of the best Fender guitars made. The ashtray bridge cover came from a cache of old, original Fender parts found at the former site of BO's music. It has the brass saddles and is just a killer guitar. The finish is nearly perfect. Comes with a Gator semi-hardshell case. Estimated value. $600.00
Original Danelectro model (sold)1457. Currently near basket case. Currently $175.00 I plan on cleaning this up and turning it back into a real guitar over the next two weeks. Of course, then the price goes up (a little) Stay tuned.
Alvarez baby guitar. (SOLD) (It's hard to tell from the picture, but this is actually a 3/4 or 7/8 sized guitar.) I have one of these and they are an incredible travel guitar, talented kid's guitar. It has a solid top, and unlike the Taylor baby, it has a glued in neck. It's a real guitar, only smaller. Very high quality and great sound. Estimated value. $250.00 The current model sells new on the internet for over $400.00
This is an older model, (SOLD) very pre Fender, Guild 12 string dreadnought. It sounds wonderful, is very playable, with plenty of saddle left if you want to lower the action anytime in the future. This is another great guitar. Checking blue book estimates online, this guitar got pretty high. but I'm guessing $800.00-$900.00 locally. Needs a new nut, now it's $750.00
Epiphone Sheraton with original hardshell case. It's Purty! Natural finish. Fancy inlays. Great condition as usual. This is one of the imports. Prices on Ebay are all over the place on these. I value it around $500.00
For the frugal minded who want something of Rob's, check out The Memphis Attack Trigger. This is an auto wah pedal. It works perfectly, sounds cool, but the price is low because Memphis is not a big name in pedals. A steal at $20.00
If I could only have one more thing.... This amp is incredible. Custom Vibrolux reverb. Sounds more musical than almost anything I've heard from fender in years. It breaks up VERY musically. It has excellent reverb and Tremelo. 2-10s in the cabinet. I can't find information on one of these with the creme colored tolex. This is obviously some kind of limited run. It really does sound amazing. The controls need cleaned, but I will be doing that in the next day or two. The amp does smell like the tobacco store, but that ain't all bad.
This is easily worth $850.00 I'm seeing some used ones on Ebay selling for $950.00 with the black tolex.
Crate BX-15 15 watt bass practice amp. Cleaned up really nice. $49.00
Fender Champion 110 Practice amp with foot switchable channel switching, reverb, and headphone jack. Great little practice amp. $85.00
Fender Blues jr. (SOLD) Probably purchased new at my old store. If so, it's never been gigged or played hard. I will definitely clean up the cover and check the controls. These amps are really popular for good reason. Large enough for small gigs, small enough to play in the house. Easy to carry. Killer tone. $400.00
The twins... Two fender acoustic resonator guitars in sunburst. The one on the left is a round neck. (SOLD) Play it like a standard guitar or with bottle neck slide. The one on the right (SOLD) is a Squareneck. Meant to be played with a metal bar, sitting face up on your lap. These were also out on the sales floor all the time. Rob loved resonators and these have been played a lot. The cool thing though is that many of these guitars are dirty, but undamaged with no dings or scratches. (Okay, I just found a small separation on the back of the squareneck. If you want one of these guitars, I will sell as is, or clean it up and restring it for you. People are asking $300-$350 for these on ebay, but their usually selling for around $250.00 I'll take $250 for either, but $300.00 would be nice. Customers will understand.
Our friend. This guitar Rob is playing in this picture used to be mine. I bought it back before I even got the blog started just cause I loved it, and I really loved this picture. Every time I would come into the store, Rob would grab a guitar and play me "something new he was working on." It was usually some snaky little groove. I could never learn to play the stuff Rob played. Rob, when I get there, we're going to have plenty of time for you to teach me that stuff. Miss you Bro.
Alvarez CY116... (SOLD) Everybody wanted this one.
This guitar is a very low budget Fender acoustic. It has been signed by Aaron Allan, Rocky Rodriguez, Junior Brown, and several others I can't read. It has an "official looking sticker" sticker on it. It's actual value is not much. But it sat in the front of the store on a stand for years and has probably been played by anybody whoever shared a song there. I'm taking bids.
Seagull SA-6 Solid body acoustic electric guitar. These things sound great in live shows, and they don't have feedback problems like a hollow body acoustic. I'm serious. These are absolutely the best guitar I've ever found for live shows with a band. This one comes with a real nice Levy's gig bag too. $450.00
In the early 90s, Danelectro released a reissue of the original U-2. This is apparently NOT MY old one. This belonged to another one of us. These Danos are just great guitars for the price. I love the sound of these pickups. And... This one smells like fine cigars!! $250.00
Godin Acousticaster. They don't make this one anymore. One of the first guitars I regretted selling to Rob. This one used to be mine. I love this guitar. Look at the grain in the neck. Great sounding solid body acoustic. Get loud acoustic sound without feedback. This is a great gigging guitar. It sounds like a fine acoustic through an acoustic amp or a PA system, looks cool, and get loud without feedback. Comes with a nice, gig bag. $350.00
I don't know why this guitar is still here. (SOLD) This guitar is a replica of John Lennon's round shouldered Gibson acoustic electric. It has a magnetic pickup at the end of the neck like Lennon's and an absolutely gorgeous finish, Vineyard is not a big name, but it should be. I'm really impressed by this guitar. It's well made, plays great, and has a really good vibe. Comes with a hardshell case. It's also very affordable at $199.00
Holy Rockabilly!! Fender bought guild in the 90s. Fender started making some affordable guild style guitars overseas. These guitars were called Dearmonds, named after another company that Fender bought in the 90s. Fender stopped making Dearmond. Soon after that, Fender came out with this Squire which looks exactly like a Dearmond X-155, but with the most rockabilly finish possible. It's impossible to find one of these. Let's say $375.00
A few more left people. Still have some speaker cabinets, and an amp head, some effects, and a few more guitars. My thanks to those of you who have been responding with support for Shirley and particularly to those who have bought guitars. Appreciate y'all.
Hello, how many to ship the holdsworth guitar to france ?
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