The Beatles helped to turn electric guitars into a popular musical instrument, in the 1960’s It is hard to imagine today, but in the early 1960’s having an electric guitar in your home was rare. In fact, it was likely that your parents were steering you in the direction of accordion lessons. The Beatles – and of course others – stopped all that. Suddenly, electric guitars were #1 on every kids Christmas list. Companies that had been manufacturing Accordions for 20 years, retooled for electric guitars.

EKO was at the forefront, and within 2 years they were shipping over 10,000 electric guitars to USA per year. For most North American kids, including myself, their first guitar was an EKO or some Japanese import. Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, Rickenbacker these were all too expensive for our parents to buy for us.

Hence, the foreign guitar manufacturers gave us what we wanted. Tip of the iceberg! Jimmy Page & Jack White: Guitar Player Magazine Here I’ve highlights a few of my 60’s guitars, but it only scratches the surface. You’ll see the inspiration for launching in these images below. Below: A nifty 1959 Fender Musicmaker. I took it to the local luthier and asked him to refinish it, to remove the awful sticker.

He said, “What?! That’s a Vintage Sticker!” It took me a while, but now I see his point of view.

A couple of Fender Duo-Sonics, which were the inspiration for the. The were sold through Montgomery Ward. Vintage 1960’s Teisco EV3T Electric Guitar Below: One last Teisco, a Mosrite Joe Maphis copy, which was also the inspiration for the. Then, a couple of Italian masterpieces: The Cobra is one of a dozen or so NOS guitars that I picked up when the Milwaukee connection flushed their last holdings. The Galanti, on the other hand, is quite a rare bird. I’ve seen a few in Europe, but not over here. It is an extremely well made piece. The Victoria.

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The Teisco Del Ray was perhaps the most popular student guitar from the 1960's. I haven't been able to find out much about dating them, so far. And, from what I've been able to find about the serial number, I think its rather old.

I must say that this is perhaps one of the coolest guitars I have. This is truly a work of art. What a looker. It was through the. The Regent is from Canada, the name Regent was a Canadian label for GUYATONE. Vintage 1960’s Sekova Bison Electric Guitar Below: As you can see, we got our walls painted the other day, hope you like it!

Anyway, on the left is an AWESOME Kawai Bass. This baby looks, feels, plays like no other Bass from its time.

REALLY well made, big and heavy (the picture scale looks small but this is bigger than a Fender Precision). Next to that is a nice Silvertone Mosrite with slider controls. You can see the inspiration for the in many of these guitars.

Interesting because it as an indiviual slider volume for each pickup, so you can dial in an unlimited variety of tones. A 1965 Hofner Galaxie. An early 1960’s Vivona which was made by EKO, and a wee Hi-Tone. Wee guitar, HUGE head.

Great canoe paddle. Vintage 1960’s Espana Viola Electric Guitar Below: A beautiful Ampeg AMUB-1 Fretless Bass. Has been making some excellent re-issue versions of this in and versions. Next, a MINT 60’s Airline Barney Kessel featuring the very cool “Kleenex Box” pickups, another current. Next is NOT a Univox, but a RAVEN. This is exactly the same as the Univox, but was imported to Canada under the brand Raven.

Then, a 9.5 Silvertone Mosrite and a VERY odd and curious guitar labeled CONTESSA. It is from Italy, and looks, feels, smells, just like the JG Italians.

Unbelievealby good player. Back in the early 70s I had a Pan copy of a Ventures Mosrite,I traded it in on a ’65 Hagstrom II when in retrospect I should have held on to it and paid cash for the Hagstrom.It was an amazingly well made and excellent playing and sounding guitar but I haven’t seen either one like it since and have even placed ads in various publications to try and find one but haven’t had a reply yet.I certainly would jump at an opportunity to buy one if it were to come up for sale now.Is anyone else familiar with this brand and model or even just the Pan name?

Hi recently been going through some of my partners dad’s things after he unfortunately passed away and we found his old guitar that he used to play gigs with in the early 70’s. It looks to me like a Domino Dawson after some research, the bridge and tremelo arm set up are identical as are the scratchplate both the removable one and the fixed one at the point of the lower cutaway. The thing is the headstock which is more Gibson-esque wheras all the pics i’ve seen of the dawson dominos have more fender type stocks.

Everything else looks identical, does anyone have any ideas for confirming identity? Thanks for a wonderful gallery, I love this time period and styling and have myself fallen in love with many of these. Phantom guitars (www.phantomguitars.com) in Oregon makes modern repros of the old Vox / Domino styles, have you had experience playing any of these?