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The G-Pick Hierarchy
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Each guitar in the Vault wears its tier as a holographic G-Pick. Climb the ladder by pulling rarer instruments.
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Custom Shop One-of-One · 1960
LP Custom 'Black Beauty' 3-Pickup (Tower Spec)
Monteon Masterbuilt · 1959
Gretchen Penguin Aged (Monteon)
Monteon Masterbuilt · 1957
Gretchen 6120 '57 Relic (Monteon)
Court Luthier One-of-One · 1973
The Royal Pain
American Standard · 1965
000-28 Natural
Re-Issue · 1963
Violin Bass (Hey Jude Spec)
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Tone Demo
Provenance
- 1968Commissioned & hand-painted in a Greenwich Village loft
- 1969Played on a rooftop set, three songs before the police arrived
- 2014Acquired at auction · undisclosed sum · current consignment
“We sanded the lacquer to nothing and started over with sign-painter brushes. The body became the canvas — the canvas was always the point.”
Cert · TRX·001 / 1968·SKY
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Tone Demo
Provenance
- 1973Commissioned in violet quilt for a private court collection
- 1981Card-suit inlays cut from river pearl & 18k leaf · single sitting
- 2009Surfaced at a Continental auction · acquired by current consignor
“Three pickups was vanity. The fourth knob was greed. The crown on the twelfth fret was the only honest thing on the whole guitar.”
Cert · TRX·002 / 1973·ROYAL
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Tone Demo
Provenance
- 1956One-of-one commission · jumbo body, K·I·N·G pearl inlay
- 1956Photographed in jumpsuit & tooled leather strap · Sun sessions adjacent
- 1977Final ballad performance · sealed in original hardshell since
“Inlaying four pearl blocks across the rosewood took longer than building the rest of the guitar. The luthier signed the inside of the soundhole. Most people never look up there.”
Cert · TRX·004 / 1956·ALOHA
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Tone Demo
Provenance
- 1960Custom Shop one-of-one · third pickup added at the player's request
- 1971Tracked the eight-minute epic · bowed-violin solo at 5:55
- 1980Retired from touring · climate-controlled storage ever since
“He wanted a middle pickup nobody else had, wired through a 6-way switch we invented on the bench. We told him it would never sell. He told us he wasn't planning to share it.”
Cert · TRX·005 / 1960·TOWER
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Tone Demo
Provenance
- 1983Designed on a napkin · boutique luthier executed in three months
- 1984Featured in the film · raspberry-tinted concert footage
- 1993Symbol-era retirement · sealed in a velvet-lined flight case
“He sketched the body shape from memory in twenty seconds. I told him the upper horn would feedback. He smiled and told me to figure it out. I figured it out.”
Cert · TRX·006 / 1983·CLOUD
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“The collection is a living history. Every nick in the nitrocellulose tells a story of a stage once conquered.”