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Today’s featured guitar is the Fender Standard Stratocaster HSS Electric Guitar Lake Placid Blue Maple Fingerboard. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The Fender Standard Strat HSS is an electric guitar that features special switching for its humbucking bridge pickup and 2 single-coil pickups in the neck and middle positions. Other features include an alder body, modern C-shaped maple neck, chrome hardware, and vintage-style synchronized tremolo.

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You can pick up the Fender Standard Stratocaster HSS Electric Guitar Lake Placid Blue Maple Fingerboard at Musician’s Friend for $499.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Epiphone G-400 Electric Guitar Alpine White. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The Epiphone G-400 Electric Guitar features a solid mahogany body and slim-tapered mahogany neck. Separate volume and tone controls for each of the high-output humbuckers give you complete control of your sound. The deep double-cutaway lets you reach all 22 frets with ease. The LockTone stopbar tailpiece and Tune-O-Matic bridge provide great sustain and tone, and make string changing easier. Exclusive Alpine White finish! Limited lifetime warranty.

You can pick up the Epiphone G-400 Electric Guitar Alpine White at Musician’s Friend for $349.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Epiphone Limited Edition Riviera Custom P93 Electric Guitar Gold. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The warm, clear tone of the Riviera electric guitar makes it a perfect instrument for jazz, blues, or country. Its semi-hollow body is crafted of laminated maple. A set mahogany C-shaped neck provides sustain and playing comfort. The 3 Alnico V P-90s produce a fatter, warmer single-coil tone for extra sass while a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece delivers the twang that has been a favorite for decades.
Pickup switching
Up: neck-middle
Center: neck-middle-bridge
Down: middle-bridge
Individual volume controls let you isolate each P-90.

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You can pick up the Epiphone Limited Edition Riviera Custom P93 Electric Guitar Gold at Musician’s Friend for $499.00.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Dean ML Buddy Blaze Electric Guitar graphic¹. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

Dean and famed guitar builder/designer Buddy Blaze have teamed up to create the ML Buddy Blaze electric guitar. Loaded with quality components and built with a rigid adherence to Blaze's design elements, this beast has a unique "chrome flame" graphic and a top-mounted Floyd Rose tremolo. This Dean ML guitar also has many other elements that Blaze is known for, such as his signature middle and bridge pickup positions loaded with custom wound Dean DMT pickups. Other appointments on the Dean ML Buddy Blaze guitar include custom ascending flame mother-of-pearl inlays on a 2 octave fretboard attached to a pitched neck, black hardware, Grover tuners, and a classic V-shaped headstock. Production is limited to 300 electric guitars and each includes a certificate of authenticity and a hardshell Dean guitar case.

You can pick up the Dean ML Buddy Blaze Electric Guitar graphic¹ at Musician’s Friend for $399.00.

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Today’s featured guitar is the ESP LTD Deluxe H-1001QM Floyd Rose Electric Guitar See-Thru Black Cherry. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

This ESP LTD Deluxe H-1001QM electric guitar has a mahogany body with a quilted-maple top. It features a set-thru, Thin-U maple neck, with 24 extra-jumbo frets on a rosewood fingerboard.

This deluxe ESP LTD guitar includes an EMG 81 bridge pickup and an EMG 85 pickup in the neck, with a 3-way pickup selector.

A Floyd Rose 1000 series bridge, ESP locking tuners, and black nickel hardware round out the pro features of this beautiful ESP guitar.

You can pick up the ESP LTD Deluxe H-1001QM Floyd Rose Electric Guitar See-Thru Black Cherry at Musician’s Friend for $849.00.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Gibson Les Paul Studio Electric Guitar Satin Ebony Chrome Hardware. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The arrival of the Gibson Les Paul Studio Electric Guitar in 1983 offered guitarists all the essential elements of a Les Paul Standard, including a carved top and humbucking pickups. Its simple yet elegant design quickly helped it become the most popular model in the Les Paul Series. Cutting-yet-rich tonethe hallmark of the Les Paulpours out of the 490R and 498T Alnico II magnet humbucker pickups (BurstBucker Pro on faded models), which are mounted on a carved maple top with a mahogany back. The Les Paul Studio Electric Guitar includes a Gibson hardshell case (Faded and satin finish models come with a gig bag) and a limited lifetime warranty.

Body and Finish
A solid, carved maple top and chambered mahogany body give the Les Paul Studio the same tonewood combination that has been helping Les Paul Standards rock for nearly 60 years. And each of its four available nitrocellulose finishes makes for a stunning looking guitar, even while its no-frills approach eliminates body binding and pickguard.

Mahogany is a medium-dense wood with excellent resonance and superior sustain, and it offers a rich, round, warm tone, but with plenty of high-end sheen and good mid-range presence. Add a solid maple top, and the guitar’s tone is enhanced with added clarity, sustain and definition. The body’s chambering also enhances its mellow acoustic resonance, and adds further air to the midrange content.

Pickups
Gibson’s 498T and 490R pickups (“T” for treble, and “R” for rhythm) have the traditional characteristics of the original “Patent Applied For” pickups of the late 1950s, with a few upgrades. These pickups take advantage of wax potting, which does away with any air space inside the pickup, therefore lessening the chances of microphonic feedback. The result is a humbucker with the tonal characteristics of an original PAF, with a slight increase in upper mid-range response. The Gibson 498T bridge pickup is the 490R’s ideal complement.

Taking the 490R one step further, the 498T is wound a little hotter and also swaps the Alnico II magnet for an Alnico V, giving it more punch and greater emphasis on midrange and highs. The 490R/498T is one of the most versatile humbucking pickup sets available. In the neck position, the former yields juicy, warm vocal tones with outstanding clarity, while the latter in the bridge position excels at everything from bright jangle through a clean amp to wailing overdrive with near-infinite sustain through a high-gain amp. Selected together, the pair gives you everything from funky to greasy, depending upon amp and effects settings.

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You can pick up the Gibson Les Paul Studio Electric Guitar Satin Ebony Chrome Hardware at Musician’s Friend for $799.00.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Jackson RR3 Rhoads Pro Electric Guitar Restock Black¹. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The strikingly designed Jackson RR3 Rhoads Pro Electric Guitar is a great guitar for its price. Alder body (with flamed maple top on the transparent finishes), maple neck, compound-radius rosewood fretboard, jumbo frets, Floyd Rose-licensed double-locking tremolo, Duncan Designed Detonator humbuckers, volume/volume/tone with 3-way switching, and chrome hardware.Jackson's compound-radius fingerboard curves more dramatically at the nut for easy chording and flattens out as it approaches the neck joint for low-action bends without fretting out. With a more relaxed hand, you'll play better!

You can pick up the Jackson RR3 Rhoads Pro Electric Guitar Restock Black¹ at Musician’s Friend for $446.24.

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Today’s featured guitar is the PRS SE Paul Allender Electric Guitar Emerald Green Burst. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The Paul Allender SE features a racy double-cutaway body with the outstanding wood combo of mahogany back and maple top with a flamed maple veneer. The 24-fret-wide thin maple neck is smooth and responsive to the most challenging riffs. Includes a PRS-designed tremolo that lets you dive-bomb like crazy and stay in tune. EMG-90/81TW humbuckers provide the crunch and molten tones you crave. Paul Allender bat inlays provide a distinctive touch.

Paul’s PRS guitars can be heard on Cradle of Filth’s new album, Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder.

Paul Allender, lead guitarist of the band Cradle of Filth, is known for his unique style. Paul didn’t take any lessons when he was starting out on the guitar. This allowed him to develop his own style very quickly. With his strict right-hand rhythm technique and his chromatic writing style, Paul Allender’s sound is easily identifiable.

Paul started playing PRS when he left Cradle of Filth and started the band, the Blood Divine. He purchased a second-hand CE-24 and used it exclusively throughout the band’s days and brought it with him when he rejoined Cradle of Filth at the turn of the century. He then sent a design of his own to PRS. It featured a purple and black sunburst on a curly maple top and replaced the traditional bird inlays with bats for a darker but still classic PRS look. PRS built the guitar for Allender as a private stock model, but it eventually made it to production as an SE model.

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You can pick up the PRS SE Paul Allender Electric Guitar Emerald Green Burst at Musician’s Friend for $794.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Charvel Desolation Single Cutaway 1 Electric Guitar Flat Black. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The Desolation DS-1 ST has a single-cutaway mahogany body with a carved top and neck-through-body design. Features include a bound mahogany neck with scalloped heel, compound radius (12-16) rosewood fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets and abalone inlays, abalone body and headstock binding, dual Seymour Duncan® Blackout active humbucking pickups with three-way toggle switching, Charvel bridge specially designed for compound-radius fingerboards, black nickel hardware, three-on-a-side locking Charvel tuners, and solid and trans finishes (flame maple veneer on trans finishes) with matching headstocks.

Magnificent Desolation. The Charvel Desolation series introduces entirely new designs not previously seen in Charvels 30-year history, offering more tonal and stylistic options for discerning players everywhere. Devastating tone, killer looks and high-performance playability separate the Desolation series from all others. Its a whole new series of Charvel guitars for a whole new world of players.

You can pick up the Charvel Desolation Single Cutaway 1 Electric Guitar Flat Black at Musician’s Friend for $599.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the B.C. Rich Ironbird Pro Electric Guitar Spalted Ebony Fretboard. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The B.C. Rich Ironbird Pro Electric Guitar looks amazing with its Onyx finish and offers professional features such as classic B.C. silver painted bevels, neck-through construction and an active EMG-81 humbucker. The Ironbird Pro guitar has the fire-power needed to heat up any stage.

Introduced in 1983, the Ironbird’s angular lines and striking appearance have earned many loyal followers throughout the years. This guitar combines all the professional you’ve come to expect from B.C. Rich, such as neck-through design, 24-5/8″ scale length, an EMG-81 pickup, Grover tuners and Floyd Rose Original tremolo.

B.C. Rich is known as one of the pioneers in Neck Through construction. They utilize it on many of their guitars, because it provides the best possible sustain, resonance, comfort and access to higher frets. Neck-through has long been considered the premium construction method for high-end guitars. This construction starts with premium maple or mahogany and runs from the tip of the headstock to the end of the guitar. This means that the headstock, fingerboard, pickups and bridge all are mounted to this single sound foundation. Sonically it is a difference you can hear.

Using a ceramic magnet, the EMG-81 active humbucker is a high-output pickup designed especially for the lead guitarist. The 81 is at its best for high volume overdrive and amps with a master volume. Whether you’re playing power rock and roll, or overdriving your amp, there’s a razor sharp attack, and incredible sustain for brilliant soloing. If you’re looking for exceptional qualities in a rock pickup, the EMG-81 is the one.

Most of B.C. Rich body styles employ a beveled edge around the shape. In many ways bevels on a top are similar to facets on a cut stone. They catch the light and reflect at different angles giving the instrument more of a three dimensional look. Some of the B.C. Rich top bevels are extreme and wide while others are subtle and narrow. Occasionally the shape of the instrument is accented by painting the bevels a contrasting color.

Other appointments on this awesome shredder include C neck shape, 24 jumbo frets, 1-11/16″ nut width, 12″ radius, Floyd Rose Original bridge, Grover tuners, and a gloss finish.

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You can pick up the B.C. Rich Ironbird Pro Electric Guitar Spalted Ebony Fretboard at Musician’s Friend for $699.99.

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