Tsunami disaster Stratocaster
A signed Fender Standard Series Stratocaster has become the world’s most expensive guitar, fetching a massive $2.8 million at auction in Doha, Qatar. Auctioned to aid victims of the 2004 tsunami disaster, the guitar broke the previous record held by Eric Clapton’s $959,500.00 black strat. Price: $2.8 million
EVH Eddie Van Halen Frankenstein Replica Guitar.
Eddie Van Halen (EVH) collaborates with Fender to make the EVH brand guitars. Only 300 of these limited edition guitars have been made.Price: $25,000
Gibson Jimmy Page Les Paul Custom VOS Signed by Jimmy Page.
A stunning Black Beauty with a slim-profile neck, Page BurstBucker pickups, gold Bigsby vibrato and an innovative six-position toggle that lets you isolate the neck and bridge pickups, or add the middle in any combination. Limited to 25 signed guitars.Price: $25,000
Greg Rich Gibson Art Guitars
One of the few Greg Rich Gibson Art Guitars. Gibson sold this guitar direct for $39,000 back in 1989. Price: $39,000
PRS Private Stock 1333 10th Anniversary Custom 22.
This incredibly rare and special guitar is part of the run commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Private Stock program. These special guitars have some very exclusive features including very special, highly ornate inlays.Price: $23,000
Sigil of Baphomet
The guitar was designed based on the so-called Sigil of Baphomet. This beast has a mahogany, ebony and purpleheart body, EMG Pickups.Price: $10,000
PRS Double Neck Dragon
This was the most expensive production guitar in the world at £33,000 and not surprisingly the limited number of only 70 made have sold out already. Price: £33,000
Jimi Hendrix’s 1965 Fender Stratocaster
Jimi Hendrix’s 1965 Fender Stratocaster that was set ablaze at London’s Finsbury Astoria in 1967 during a concert. An American, Danny Boucher, bought Jimi Hendrix’s 1965 Fender Stratocaster, above, for nearly $500,000 at a London auction in 2008. Price: $500,000
Gibson Citation
The Gibson Citation was a top-of-the-line archtop guitar, introduced in 1969 and still available from the Gibson custom shop on special order. It featured figured maple back and sides and a carved maple or carved spruce top with a figured maple or mahogany neck; it usually was equipped with a gold-covered floating BJB pickup.
An early 1969 – 1971 model will range from about $15 000 to $20 000 depending on the condition.
Gibson Slash Aged and Signed Les Paul
Gibson produced a limited number of these guitars, reproducing the looks, tone and feel of his original guitar. Crafted from a Grade AAA maple top and non weight-relieved mahogany body (weighs 3500Grams or 7.6lbs), the Slash Appetite Les Paul is finished in nitrocellulose lacquer that replicates a beautifully faded vintage Les Paul Standard.
Signed by Slash himself, there are only 100 of these worldwide. Prices are around £10,000 ($15,000).
The GoldCaster
The GoldCaster is a custom made hollowbody guitar that features a solid 18 Karat Gold Topalong with 33 other elements including the nut, bridge, saddles, volume and tone knobs. This is the world’s first and only real gold guitar and currently retails for an insane $1,000,000.
Rock Royalty KAGED Alligator Custom Guitar
The Rock Royalty customized ‘one-of-a-kind’ KAGED alligator guitar has a Fender Telecaster body, features an exquisite natural black alligator skin, patent-pending steel cage with chrome finish and black diamond encrusted volume knobs and tuners. The guitar currently retails at $100,000.
Find out more about these guitars in our Rock Royalty interview.
Gibson Les Paul Ultima
From its stunning high-grade quilt or flame Maple top to its Ebony fingerboard with individual choice of elegantly inlaid designs – Harp, Flame, or The Tree of Life inlay. The workmanship and quality of the Gibson Les Paul Ultima will astound you. There really is no finer Les Paul but you can bet it comes at a cost! Actual prices are hard to come by so if anyone has spotted one for sale please leave a comment below.
The Crow By Jol Dantzig
This beauty is built by Jol Dantzig, one of the founders of Hamer Guitars. Dantzig has designed guitars for John Lennon, George Harrison, Sting, Gary Moore, Billy Gibbons, KK Downing, Glenn Tipton, Lyle Workman, Mark Knopfler, Eric Johnson & many more. This true one of kind guitar retails for $38,000 USD and is a must for any discerning collector.
The Six String Nation Guitar
Six String Nation is a guitar created by award-winning writer and broadcaster Jowi Taylor (pictured above). Built from 64 pieces of bone, metal, wood, stone and fabric with some of them dating back several hundred years. The guitar was made as a symbol of national unity, to explore Canadian identity, and to connect people from all regions in Canada. In terms of value, given the rare and historical nature of some of the parts this guitar could truly be defined as priceless.
Have any more outrageously expensive guitars to add? Just leave a comment below and we’ll add it to the list.
gibson citation dude, it’s like 33,000$
Thanks for the feedback ‘Some Dude’. Just added the Gibson Citation to the list. Keep the ideas coming people!
The martin dreadnaught replica or the jeff beck something. It’s on guitar center. (.com) Search for them and put the search on “price highest to lowest”
This is the Gibson Custom Jeff Beck 1954 Les Paul Oxblood priced at $24,999.99. Definitely a candidate for the world’s most expensive guitar!
http://www.guitarcenter.com/Gibson-Custom-Jeff-Beck-1954-Les-Paul-Oxblood-Aged-Signed-Electric-Guitar-580840-i1438641.gc
Oh geez.. what i would do to have that Strat that jimmi played on.. i need 1 million dollars, quick man. I wonder if i could even buy it form the guy with the money
THe “Page Les paul”,that are awesome!!!
Masculin,firm and sexy in the same time especialy with that Mr bigsby touch….wow!
Hey guys I’m Dan Boucher I see you like my axe! It’s goin to auction on may 13 at auction house San Fran so yea come along if you want!
Les Paul’s Les Paul
man thats radical wish a could jam that.
Wow.. i like PRS series but . …..this stratocaster doesn,t seems that much expensive ……isn,t it guys?
i have left my fingerprints on one of the prs doublenecks. there is a shop in birmingham which sells one . im proud of what i did … hehehe
the esp shinigami worth 20k
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Well the new Gibson Slash aged and signed guitar is around $12000. Along with the fact that the holy grail 1959 les Paul was left out of the running.
Good point Jesse, I’ll try and get the Gibson Slash Les Paul and 1959 Les Paul on this last as soon as I can
The Martin D-100 Deluxe!!! $110,000. Only 50 made.
hey what do you guys think of the early G&L do you think they will ever go up in value? 1980 f-100????
this is cool dude
i sold my guitar gibson les paul for $15000
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Sigil of Baphomet, very nice, mine plays well…
Sigil of Baphomet = A-MAZING, frets are clean and smooth, pickups are loud and crunchy,, (:
My guitar is worth about $350, but I can PLAY it!!
The original Gibson Flying V knockoff that launched a decade long court battle! An original Korina Flying V will fetch around $55,000
oh yes, theres more! The original 1949 Fender Broadcaster prototype, after being displayed to the public for the first time in 1994, was sold to a private collector for $375,000
more to come!
I’d love to get my hands on one of those eddy van halen guitars !! Though i’m 16 years and don’t have such money and probably never have that much spare
What about the LP Ultima? That’s a weird one. Also Zemaitis’s are very costy…
Gibson and Fendar are producing many expensive guitars…………as hardcore, metal and rock songs are being promoted by these guitar’s design, sound and many other features….
1956 Gibson Les Paul “Black Beauty”. Poor, poor condition ones bring many thousands. Average condition bring $30,000.00+ and perfect ones can be as much as $90,000.00…
…and I will be selling mine soon
Some D’aquisto high end jazz /acoustic guitars are bringing over 50K
yo where’s the ibanez jem 20th anaversity
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I was talking to Dan Erlewine about 20 years ago while standing in Clifford Antone’s club on Quadalupe Street in Austin watching John Lee Hooker and I rememeber him telling me that he built Hooker’s guitar (black gibson es335) from a piece of really old vintage african hardwood found in somebody’s garage a few years earlier, it’s def one of kind, probably buried him with it , Dan Erlewine also made the first Lazer guitar for Johhny Winter about 20 something years ago
Hi,
I would love to see the Gibson Super 400 ces & the Gibson L-5 in here.
I have a `92 Super 400 and I absolutely Love it. It`s a dream machine, and one of these days I will pick up the the L-5.
Love the site Man!
Best wishes,
Steve
That is the site I found it. I think Sean owns it. I just read it. I saw one of Frank Zappas kids playing the burnt up strat on SNL or Jay Leno?
you guys missed most of Benedetto’s instruments, which run between $10,000 and $40,000, unless you don’t count them
I can get a replica of the Frankenstrat for $250 at the Hippie Hut in my town…
That slash guitar is based on a knockoff a friend made for him to look like a real Gibson, it’s awesome.
Don’t forget Jol Dantzig’s guitars. He was a designer / builder with Hamer for many years, and now builds one-of-a-kind creations completely by hand, that are just amazing. Each guitar has a story, and a handwritten journal detailing the piece from conception to finished work of art. His “Crow” guitar is out of this world, sold for $38,000.
Thanks Danil, I’ve added the Crow by Jol Dantzig. What a beauty!
May I suggest the Six String Nation. This guitar is a national symbol and probably gets as close to priceless as any guitar anywhere.
What an odd list. Look into some vintage archtops. D’Angelico originals fetch tens of thousands of dollars. Some D’Aquistos do to. So do pieces by John Monteleone. As for new guitars, a custom made Monteleone will run you quite a bit. So will a Benedetto – a Sinfonietta will cost you at least $40,000.
The LP Ultima has an MSRP of $11,009. The Citation is $33,059 (starting MSRP).
Look into Martins. There are no shortage of extremely rare/valuable pieces from them.
Clarke – We’ll look into the Six String nation guitar, sounds pretty cool.
FRB – That’s why we rely on feedback from you guys. I think we have already added several guitars that have been recommended in the comments so we’ll look into those pieces by John Monteleone as well as the D’Angelico and D’Aquistos originals.