Used · Clean
Electric · in the case
S-Style, Olympic White
Tortoise guard, maple neck, hardshell case. Set up and ready.
$1,300
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Hawkins & Tyler, East Texas · est. on a repair bench
The gear's been here all along.
Now the world can see it.
Three decades of hand-picked amps, vintage guitars, drums, and pro audio from Kelly Barber's bench in East Texas — every piece set up, inspected, and photographed before it ships. Curated by people who actually play.
Set up on the bench before it ships
Photos of the exact instrument
35 years, clients coast to coast
Inspected, not drop-shipped
Every instrument crosses Kelly's bench — set up, cleaned, and playable — before it leaves the building.
The actual piece
You see real photos of the exact guitar or amp you're buying. Serial and all. No stock images.
A player on the line
Questions go to someone who's owned it, repaired it, and plugged it in — not a call center.
Ships from East Texas
Packed by hand and out the door fast. Local pickup in Tyler and Hawkins, too.
This week on the floor
The Vault
Real pieces, on the floor right now — actual photos, actual prices.
Used · Clean
Used
Pair · Used
Acoustic
Model 802 PA Speakers
A classic road-tested pair. Plenty loud for the room.
$200
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Used
ADK Microphones
A-51 III + Phantom Pack
Large-diaphragm condenser with Audio-Technica AT-8801 supply.
$125
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Heavy duty
3M Photodyne
12-Mic Road Case
Heavy-duty, fitted. Protects the whole mic locker on the road.
$125
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New
The Bench
Thirty-five years, one pair of hands.
“I started buying second-hand guitars and fixing them up. People would just come in and want to buy them.”
Kelly Barber has spent a career making instruments play right — a repair and restoration reputation that pulls work in from across the country and musicians connected to names you'd know. Every piece in the Vault passes through that same bench. That's the difference you can't drop-ship: a human who's played it, fixed it, and put his name on it.
— Action Sound, Hawkins TX · now shipping as an outlet of Rehearsal Room Tyler
The difference
What the big catalogs can't do
Scale is their advantage. A bench, a curator, and a real photo are ours.
Curated
A short list, not a firehose
Endless search results are where good gear hides. Here, everything on the floor earned its place. Browse in minutes, not evenings.
Honest
The exact instrument, shown
Wood grain, wear, the real serial — photographed. You know precisely what's arriving, down to the ding, before you commit.
Human
Advice from a player
Ask a question and reach someone who's set it up and gigged with the like. Guidance, not a chatbot and an upsell.
Ready
Playable out of the box
Set up and dialed before it ships. It arrives ready for the stage, not ready for a trip to the repair shop.
If it's worth owning, it's in the Vault.
New arrivals land every week. Call the bench, or come see it in East Texas.