Our product spotlight this month looks at the Victoria Amplifier Companies new "Regal II " vacuum tube guitar amplifier. A combo amp featuring reverb and tremolo, the Regal II is a pure, single-ended class A design that utilizes a new "Adaptive Transformer Technology" that allows for the use of one or two power tubes at the same time.
Therefore, operating power is rated from 5 watts to 35 watts, and at 5 watts, it's a REAL 5 watts, not some squashed approximation of 5 watts. The "Regal...
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Jacksons Rare Guitars now has a site on YouTube
The first video we have posted is on a fabulous Fender Broadcaster , which first appeared on TV back in 2001 on The Guitar Show YouTube site by clicking here .
We have also added from...
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To illustrate how collectable guitars have increased in value, Alan Greenwood and Vintage Guitar Magazine developed "The 42 Guitar Index", a list of select excellent condition instruments (14 each from Fender , Gibson and Martin ) made in the 1960's or earlier.
FROM FENDER
FROM GIBSON
FROM MARTIN
1952 Blond Precision Bass
1952 Sunburst ES-5
1931 OM-28
1952 Blond Esquire
1952 Les Paul Model
1932 00-28 special order
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Back in the summer of 1979, I placed an ad in a local magazine for a guitar player. I got one call, from a guy named Steve Jackson. After some discussion on the phone we realised we had a common passion, Fender Guitars.
At the time I had a 1960 Candy Apple Red Stratocaster, and Steve had a 1959 Sunburst Stratocaster. We regularly got together with friends to compare our collections and discuss vintage guitars. Amongst us we had a variety of sixties Stratocaster and Telecasters , but no one...
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Guitars as Investments
In the last couple of years in particular, they have sky rocketed in value to figures that would astound the average investor. Vintage Guitar Magazine (The...
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