Silvertone guitars and amps have frequently been modified. Some for good, some for ill. I call them all "Frankentones."

I guess it was because of their low price, and the low esteem Silvertones used to be held in... they weren't Fenders or Gibsons or Gretsches; so what the heck - lop off the headstock, cut off a bout, route a big hole for a cheap humbucker, paint it some wacky color, put the amp in a suitcase... there's a laboratory full of Silvertones that just weren't... right in their owner's eyes, so they remade them.

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Just click on the tombstones for the past few years' ghoulish creations, or click the 'guitars' or 'amps' to either side of Ol' Franky for the very first Frankentones we dug up.