Kustom Guitar / Amp Advertisements, 1950s-1980s

Vintage Kustom advertisements; 8 adverts covering a period of 11 years, from 1969 to 1980. Click the images to have a closer look.

Kustom is Ready for You
Kustom Electric Guitars - 1969

Mercy on the Kustom Trip
Kustom Electric Guitars - 1969

You and Kustom - the Sound Out Front
Kustom Amplifiers - 1970

All New For '72
Kustom Amplifiers - 1971

The Lifetime Guarantee
Kustom Amplifiers - 1971

You and Kustom - The Sound Out Front
Kustom Amplifiers - 1971

First Things Last
Kustom Amplifiers - 1973

Kustom is Music
Kustom III Lead - 1980

1967 Epiphone Ad featuring a psychedelic fish playing an Epiphone Riviera

1967 Fender Ad - Full Colour Sound

1973 Fender Stratocaster add - The Worlds Favourite Flying Machine

• electric guitar adverts
• acoustic guitar adverts
• bass adverts
• amplifier adverts
• effects pedal adverts

Guitar makers have advertised in music magazines such as Down Beat, Guitar Player and very many more. Some manufacturers advertised widely (Guild, Gibson, Fender) but many more didn't and adverts are few and far between. Here are some of my favourite ads out of the ones i've seen. You can browse through all the images from the category links above, or by manufacturer from the links below.

AMPS
Ampeg, Leslie, Marshall, Orange, Peavey, Sunn
GUITARS
Dan Armstrong, Epiphone, Fender, G&L, Gibson, Goya, Gretsch, Guild, Hagstrom, Harmony, Hayman, Hofner, Ibanez, Kimbara, Martin, Music Man, Rickenbacker, Vox, Yamaha
DISTRIBUTORS
Fletcher, Coppock and Newman, Rose-Morris, Rosetti, Selmer