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

The Fender Standard Stratocaster Electric Guitar is the guitar design that changed the world. Includes select alder body, 21-fret gloss maple neck with a maple fretboard, 2 single-coil pickups and a humbucker bridge pickup, a vintage-style tremolo, and die-cast tuning keys. At this low price, why play anything but the real thing?

You can pick up the Fender Standard Stratocaster HSS Electric Guitar Lake Placid Blue Gloss Maple Fretboard at Musician’s Friend for $449.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Epiphone Les Paul Plustop PRO/FX Electric Guitar Vintage Sunburst. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

Epiphone’s Les Paul Plus Top Pro/FX has all the great features and looks of a Les Paul but adds a double-locking Floyd Rose tremolo and coil-splitting for an amazing combination of crunch and versatility.

In the neck position is Epiphone’s Alnico Classic humbucker, which provides warmth and subtle tone with a full, even response that doesn’t hold back when you need that classic humbucker crunch. In the bridge position is the Alnico Classic Plus humbucker. A perfect companion to the Classic, it is overwound for a slightly higher output without sacrificing its rich, vintage tone. Both feature Alnico-II magnets, enamel wire, and are double vacuum waxed. 4-wire output on each pup allows for coil-tapping, and this Les Paul guitar takes full advantage of it with push/pull potentiometers on both volume controls. Combined with the 3-way toggle, these give you 8 killer tones in one great Les Paul guitar.

The Epiphone Pro/FX guitar features a Floyd Rose Special nickel-plated tremolo. The Les Paul body is routed out in back of the tremolo to allow for pitch raising up to 2-1/2 steps while the downward range is wide enough to get the strings slack. It’s combined with an R4 locking nut for improved tuning stability.

As with all great Epiphone Les Paul guitars, the Pro/FX features a solid Mahogany back with a highly flamed maple top and a solid mahogany neck that’s hand-fitted and glued into the body for excellent neck-to-body contact. The neck features a SlimTaper “D” profile that’s both comfortable and fast.

Other features on the Epiphone Les Paul guitar include quality Grover machine heads, LockTone Tune-O-Matic/stopbar, and Epiphone’s own StrapLocks.

Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.

You can pick up the Epiphone Les Paul Plustop PRO/FX Electric Guitar Vintage Sunburst at Musician’s Friend for $499.00.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Camouflage Gold Hardware. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The signature model Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar provides ultrafat tone, brain-shredding distortion, and visual flash worthy of Ozzy's main axe man. You'll get plenty of crisp attack from the maple top, warm sustain from the mahogany body, and easy playability from its deep-set maple neck. Screaming high-output comes courtesy of 2 EMG-HZ4 humbuckers. Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.

You can pick up the Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar Camouflage Gold Hardware at Musician’s Friend for $799.00.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Fender Modern Player Jaguar Electric Guitar 2 Color Chocolate Burst Rosewood Fretboard. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The Fender Modern Player Jaguarthroughout its history, Fender® has always made a special point of welcoming new players to the family by offering entry-level instruments of remarkable style and substance (such as the Duo-Sonic, Mustang® and Musicmaster® models), with great sound, classic looks, solid performance and eminent affordability. The Modern Player series continues that great my-first-Fender tradition, with thoroughly modern features and several distinctively unconventional new takes on our most revered instruments-all with outstandingly attainable value.

The Modern Player Jaguar® is a lean, mean and stripped-down version of the classic Fender model, with a full-throated pair of single-coil Modern Player MP-90 pickups on a sans-pickguard mahogany body. Other features include a C-shaped maple neck, rosewood fretboard with 9.5 radius and 21 medium jumbo frets, three-way toggle pickup switching, Jazz Bass®-style control knobs, vintage-style Adjusto-Matic bridge with anchored tailpiece, vintage-style tuners and
nickel/chrome hardware.

You can pick up the Fender Modern Player Jaguar Electric Guitar 2 Color Chocolate Burst Rosewood Fretboard at Musician’s Friend for $399.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Dean Vendetta 4.0 Electric Guitar with Floyd Rose Scary Cherry. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

Dean’s Vendetta 4 electric guitar is made from solid mahogany with a quilted maple top and maple neck-thru construction that provide jaw-dropping good looks and amazing, fat sound. Mahogany’s warm tone and sustain meets the bright edge of maple for a full spectrum of tone. Powerful Dean USA DMT Time Capsule humbuckers faithfully carry every shred and crunch to your amp. Your pilot’s license is waiting in the form of the guitar’s Floyd Rose-licensed tremolo, fueled up and ready to dive-bomb the very next crowd you play for. Razor wire style inlay will inspire you to really tear it up.

You can pick up the Dean Vendetta 4.0 Electric Guitar with Floyd Rose Scary Cherry at Musician’s Friend for $699.00.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Ibanez RG1451 Prestige Electric Guitar Aluminum Gray. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The RG1451 is the first Ibanez Prestige electric guitar with a fixed bridge. It's constructed with a lightweight basswood body and a 5-piece bolt-on maple/walnut neck with the amazingly fast, comfortable Wizard Prestige profile. The Ibanez RG1451 has a 24-fret rosewood neck with a 25-1/2" scale. It is fitted with Ibanez V6F humbucking pickups that deliver a bright edgy sound that is suited for modern rock styles. All hardware is black chrome including die-cast tuners, Ibanez bridge, and master volume and tone controls. Ibanez's Tight-End bridge The RG1451 guitar's low-profile Ibanez Tight End bridge offers long sustain and bright tone. The saddles are firmly locked onto the base plate for maximum transfer of string vibration. They remain perfectly linear during intonation adjustment for the most accurate setup. Saddle height can be adjusted individually by a single screw. Also, the top side of the bridge is smooth finished. So if you play hard, the Tight-End bridge will forgive you and your hands. Ibanez includes a gig bag with the RG1451 guitar. Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.

You can pick up the Ibanez RG1451 Prestige Electric Guitar Aluminum Gray at Musician’s Friend for $799.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

Grammy-nominated artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd has been carrying the blues torch since he exploded on the scene in the mid-’90s. Inspired by his own vintage ’61 Strat (currently on display at the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame), the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster has vintage styling coupled with modern player-centric appointments.

The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster has a 12″ fingerboard radius, jumbo frets, Graph Tech bridge saddles, the “Kenny Wayne Shepherd” signature on back of headstock, custom-voiced Kenny Wayne Shepherd pickups with reverse wound/reverse polarity middle pickup, a racing stripe on black version and a cross on arctic white version.

Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.

You can pick up the Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Stratocaster Electric Guitar 3-Tone Sunburst at Musician’s Friend for $899.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Ibanez XPT700 Xiphos Electric Guitar White. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The Ibanez XPT700 is a neck-thru constructed guitar that just screams metal from the first moment you see it. With a deep double-cutaways, 4-fin body shape and beveled edges, it's also comfortable to play. Chameleon finishes change colors with the light.Two DiMarzio U.S.A made pickups provide tons of clear, powerful tone, and an Edge III bridge combined with a locking nut gives you killer dive bombing without the intonation hassles.Sharktooth inlays and top-shelf hardware complete the look.

You can pick up the Ibanez XPT700 Xiphos Electric Guitar White at Musician’s Friend for $699.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Fender American Standard Stratocaster Left-Handed Electric Guitar Black Maple Fretboard. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

The Fender American Stratocaster Electric Guitar is a Fender icon. Yep, even the Lefty. Juicy upgrades include a richer, deeper neck tint for a more elegant and expensive appearance. Glossed neck front for improved looks with satin back for smooth playability. Bent steel Fender saddles with classic look and great tone. String spacing narrowed for modern playability, saddle height screws re-sized to reduce rough feel, and string slot on saddle elongated to reduce string friction or breakage. Copper Infused Cast Strat® Bridge Block (steel with copper- 100% metal) for increased mass and improved tone. This Strat features the original headstock shape but has staggered machine heads losing one string tree and improving string angle over the nut. Custom staggered pickup magnets improve string-to-string balance and give the G-string better tone. Cosmetics include parchment/black/parchment pickguard and parchment pickup covers, knobs, and tips.

The return of the American Standard Series Strat continues Fender’s tradition of commitment to the people who play Fender instruments out there in the real world. Today’s American Standard Stratocaster guitars are worthy heirs of their revered ancestors–mindful of player needs and taking full advantage of modern advances, yet remaining completely true to the elements and spirit that made these instruments legendary in the first place. Improvements include redesigned bridges, neck and body finishes, and a Fender-exclusive high-tech molded case. Still there are the beloved hand-rolled fingerboard edges, alnico V pickups and staggered tuning machines for tone and stability guaranteed to last a lifetime (with its limited lifetime warranty)! So make history with the redesigned American Standard!

Redesigned American Standard Strat® Bridge

Gives sought-after tone with modern smooth trem travel. Block retains the mass and tone of a vintage bridge block, but is chamfered for access to deeper dives. Saddles have the classic look and tone, but with modern improvements (spacing, slot elongation, height screw length).

Bridge Component Specifics

‘American Standard’ saddles- The original vintage-style Fender bent steel adjustable saddle is one of the components that give vintage Fenders their tonal ‘mojo’. Fender conducted tone comparison tests, and fell in love with them all over again. They have a wider tonal range and more character many other saddles. Then Fender improved them; narrowing the spacing to afford more room (and complement the bigger frets and rolled edges), and also elongated the string slot to reduce friction and string breakage, while improving the string break angle over the primary contact point.

‘Tone-fusion’ block- A typical cast bridge block is impregnated with a resin to eliminate ‘voids’ in the material and to bond it together  this steel block is infused with copper, which makes

You can pick up the Fender American Standard Stratocaster Left-Handed Electric Guitar Black Maple Fretboard at Musician’s Friend for $899.99.

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Today’s featured guitar is the Epiphone Jeff Waters Annihilation-V Electric Guitar Annihilator Red. Below is the complete description of the guitar.

Epiphone has a long history of supplying some of the greatest guitarists of all time with the electric guitar they need to excel. That history continues with the Annihilation-V, a Flying V guitar made in cooperation with acclaimed guitarist, Jeff Waters. Prestigiously ranked at #3 in Joel McIver’s 2009 book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists,

Jeff and his band Annihilator have been shredding audiences worldwide for years, and now he’s ready to take it up a notch with what he calls “The Ultimate Metal Guitar!”

Like any exceptional electric guitar, the Epiphone Annihilation-V starts with great tonewoods and construction. The neck is solid mahogany joined to a solid mahogany body using a traditional deep-set, Flying-V neck joint that’s hand-fitted and glued in place for optimum tone and sustain. For lightning-fast performance, the Epiphone guitar’s neck features a “D” profile SlimTaper neck and a 24-fret phenolic (ebonol) fingerboard that not only allows a full 2 octaves of range per string, but also an ultra-smooth and extremely durable surface.

At the heart of any great guitar are great pickups and this Epiphone Flying V guitar is no exception. Designed specifically for Jeff by Epiphone engineers, and made by Gibson USA’s world-famous pickup division, the Epiphone Annihilation-V features custom JWT (Jeff Waters Treble) and JWR (Jeff Waters Rhythm) 4-wire humbuckers in the bridge and neck positions, respectively. Overwound and featuring a Ceramic-8 magnet, the Epiphone Annihilation-V’s JWT bridge humbucker can deliver the right combination of crunch and growl without ever losing it’s enhanced lows and crystal clear highs. The JWR neck pickup features an Alnico-II magnet that provides vintage tone with great sustain and clarity along with the right combination of power and warmth. Together, the two pickups offer the perfect combination of crunch and clean. Controlling the 2 perfectly matched humbuckers is a set of simple yet powerful controls that offer incredible versatility. The Epiphone Annihilation-V guitar’s master volume control is also a push/pull control allowing you to split the coils of the 2 humbuckers for a brighter, single-coil sound while keeping them noise-free. The 3-way toggle in combination with the coil-splitting allows you up to 8 different tonal combinations ranging from a one single-coil to full-on humbucker assault. A momentary kill button cuts off the output for additional effects.

Other upgrades to the Epiphone Jeff Waters Annihilation-V electric guitar include Grover 14:1 ratio tuners, Epiphone StrapLocks, Epiphone LockTone Tune-O-Matic/stopbar combination, “Annihilator Devil” inlay on the 12th fret, and Jeff Water’s signature on the back of the guitar headstock.

Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.

You can pick up the Epiphone Jeff Waters Annihilation-V Electric Guitar Annihilator Red at Musician’s Friend for $699.00.

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