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THE GUITAR CAN ELITE GATHERING OF 150 EXCE

WALTER CARTER | PHOTOGRAPHY BY GREG MORGAN


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Copyright 2011 becker&mayer!, LLC

All rights reserved under the Pan American and International Copyright Convention.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from

the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available.

Manufactured in China

Double-neck 05 Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1-60380-169-0

ISBN-10: 1-60380-169-3

Flat-top 43 Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1-60380-170-6

ISBN-10: 1-60380-170-7

Solidbody 54 Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1-60380-171-3

ISBN-10: 1-60380-171-5

All images are the copyright of the guitar owner at the time the photograph was

taken unless stated otherwise.

See photography credits on page 509.

Epic Ink

11120 NE 33rd Place, Ste. 101

Bellevue, Washington 98004

www.epicinkbooks.com


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AUTHOR

WALTER CARTER

PHOTOGRAPHERS

GREG MORGAN

JOHN PEDEN

MARCO PROZZO

PANELISTS

WALTER CARTER

ALAN DI PERNA

MATTHEW HILL

MICHAEL MOLENDA

TOM WHEELER

BRYAN YATES

ADVISORY BOARD

DAVE BELZER

BRAD TOLINSKI

LYNN WHEELWRIGHT

DESIGNERS

TODD BATES

ROSEBUD EUSTACE

JOANNA PRICE

EDITORS

KRISTIN MEHUS-ROE

AMELIA RIEDLER

PRODUCTION COORDINATORS

LEAH FINGER

TOM MILLER

DIANE ROSS

PHOTO DIRECTOR

SHAYNA IAN

PRODUCT DEVELOPER

PETER SCHUMACHER

LICENSING MANAGERJOSH ANDERSON

CONTRACTS MANAGER

KELLEY NOTTER

ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR

MIRIAM HATHAWAY

ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER

ADRIAN LIANG

PUBLISHER

ANDREW S. MAYER


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MADE IN 1700The most celebrated violin maker of all time, Antonio Stradivari o

four guitars. Unlike the violin, which reached its pinnacle of desig

guitar was only midway through its evolutionary journey in 1700,

was built.

The Rawlins, named for the benefactors who acquired it for t

has an ancestral relation to the lute that is apparent in this instrum

stringsa configuration that would prevail on the modern mando

guitar around 1800. However, the hourglass body shape, with a

lower bouts, distinguished even the earliest guitars of the mid 15STRADIVARIUS THE RAWLINS| FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM, THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA, VERMILLION |


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MADE CIRCA 1944 AND Buddy Holly was always seen onstage with a Fender Stratocast

J-45 was his main guitar, as indicated by the heavy pick wear aro

by the leather covering that Elvis Presley used on a Martin D-28,

leather covering for the J-45, featuring the titles of his 1956 Decc

Blue Days Black Nights along with his home state of Texas.

Hollys J-45 was made during World War II, a period in which

headstock proclaiming Only a Gibson Is Good Enough. Wartim

Gibsons guitar production, and by 1944 the company could not GIBSON J-45| FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL J. MALONE |


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ELEKTRO A-25 FRYING PAN| FROM THE COLLECTION OF BOBBY CARLOS, COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF MAKING MUSIC |

MADE CIRCA 1932The company known as Rickenbacker had identity problems in

started as Ro-Pat-In in 1932 with the brand name Electro, then

Instrument company with the brand name Rickenbacker (or Ric

headstock decals said). This guitar, one of the earliest known ex

electric Hawaiian guitar, illustrates the state of confusion with the

akengraved into the headstock.

Aside from the brand name, this guitar is easily identifiable a

famous Frying Pan model. Officially, it was the A-25. The numbe

25 inches; the company also offered the A-22, with a 22-inch sc


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MADE IN 1948 AND PLAYThrough a career that spanned from the 1930s to the 1980s, in

Merle Travis played many recognizable instruments, from a gau

flat-top with a Bigsby neck. Of all those guitars, his most import

made by Paul Bigsby in 1948, predating the earliest Fender soli

Bigsby, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, was be

enthusiast than a guitar maker when Travis gave him a drawing o

make anything, right? Bigsbys famous reply: Any damn thing.

The headstock, with all six tuners on the same side, was de

a straight-line string pull and inspired by the European instrumeBIGSBY| FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM |


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MADE IN 1953 AND PLAYKeith Richards of The Rolling Stones usually played Gibsons thr

1971 he bought this 1953 Telecaster. After a series of modificat

Micawber after a character in Charles Dickenss David Copperfi

ite and most famous instruments.

The most important alteration is the most obviousthe nec

some of his familiar Gibson sound to the Fender by replacing th

with a Gibson humbucker. He replaced the bridge pickup, too,

Fender lap steel.

FENDER TELECASTER

MICAWBER| FROM THE COLLECTION OF KEITH RICHARDS |


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FENDER STRATOCASTER

BLACKIE| FROM THE COLLECTION OF GUITAR CENTER |

MADE CIRCA 19561957In 1970, on a break from filming the Johnny Cash TV show at N

Eric Clapton walked around the corner to a guitar shop, Sho-Bu

dozen vintage Fender Stratocasters and parts. Clapton then pu

1957a date confirmed by the serial number on the neck plate

pickguard (which would be replaced in 1959 by a multi-ply unit)

of about the same age (most later necks would have a rosewoo

Blackie (as he dubbed the guitar) repla ced Claptons 195

ton used it extensively for almost fifteen years, as shown by t


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MADE IN 1958AND PLAYLonnie Mack, a 17-year-old country guitarist from southern Ind

of the target customers for Gibsons new, modernistic Flying V

hands, the Flying V became an icon of rock music.

Mack bought the seventh Flying V made by Gibson from G

nati, and he soon asked the store to install a Bigsby vibrato. Th

metal to mount the Bigsby to the guitars unconventional body.

An ancient capo has le ft its marks on the back of the neck,

brown shade of the Korina wood (African limba). Mack painted

GIBSON F

NUMBER| FROM THE COLLECTION OF LONNIE MAC


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GRETSCH WHITE PENGUIN| FROM THE BACHMAN GRETSCH COLLECTION OF GRETSCH GUITARS |

MADE IN 1955The White Penguin was one of only two Gretsch solidbody mod

other) to have counterparts in the hollowbody line. The Penguin

of the White Falcon, sharing such appointments as engraved fin

style tailpiece, and gold-sparkle binding. Even the winglike orna

appropriate for a falcon but not so much for a penguinwere d

Gretsch fashion for the period, the serial number was scratched

The line drawing of a squat, upright bird on the pickguard pose

never answered: Why would anyone name a guitar after a peng


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LES PAUL STANDARD COPY| FROM THE COLLECTION OF SLASH |

MADE IN 1986AND PLAYWith the release of Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction in 1

Slash, emerged as one of the most influential guitarists of the 1

and a guitarthat harkened back to the classic blues-based roc

Ironically, this vintage-looking Les Paulthe one Slash used

is not a Gibson. It is a replica made by Kris Derrig of MusicWorks

Redondo Beach, California. The top, like those of the most soug

features highly figured book-matched maple, but with no cherry t

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