Most Expensive Electric Guitars

Keith richards 1959 les paul standard the 1959 les paul standard is on its own known as the holy grail of electric guitars.

Most expensive electric guitars.

The 1951 fender nocaster is an electric guitar with an interesting history. Purchased by john lennon and george harrison in london in 1962. The nocaster is the precursor to fender s telecaster the most popular solid body electric guitar in history. Image 1 of 5.

Fender reach out to asia stratocaster price tag. John lennon s 1962 gibson j 160 e electric acoustic was one of a pair of almost identical acoustic guitars. Future image 3 of 5. It was sold for record breaking 965 000 at christie s auction house in 2013.

It s expensive but as an investment this is one of the best electric guitars on the market. Keith richards 1959 les paul standard 1 million. Paul bigsby made approximately 23 electric guitars and most are accounted for. There s not all that many of them still in existence and even for one not owned by anybody particularly famous you re going to pay six figures for one.

Marking his shift from acoustic to electric this guitar was played by bob dylan at 1965 newport folk festival. To some choosing one of the best electrics in the world might mean a quest to find the most expensive most tricked out model available. There s a more solidbody response here as you d expect and it really pushes out the sound. Image 2 of 5 image credit.

2 most expensive electric guitar. Everybody has a different opinion on what makes the best electric guitar for them. It cost fender between 15k and 25k to craft this creature but it was all for a good cause which happened to be bryan adams reach out to asia project. At number nine on the list of most expensive guitars in the world is bob dylan s 1964 sunburst fender stratocaster.

5 most expensive guitar. The only acoustic guitar to make it on our list of the most expensive guitars in the world had to be something special and boy is it special. Read the full review. Formerly the most expensive guitar was the reach out to asia guitar sold at a charity auction on 16 november.

These rare electric guitars were initially called broadcaster during the initial run in 1950. So it s no surprise that we ve got two of these beauties in the top 5 of. Top 10 most expensive guitars. Gibson es 335 premiere figured.

Supposedly one of the first electric washburn guitars ever made marley rarely played the washburn and gave it to his guitar tech gary carlsen.