Bid with confidence! Rondo Music offers you the stability and trust of a company that has been in business since 1959! We are committed to selling you the best instrument at the best price for your needs. Here are some of my customers' recent comments :

'I recieved my SX today and wast shocked to feel the qaulity of the neck. That was my biggest concern. I'm very satisfied with my guitar." Brendan 11/2002

"Hi Kurt & Company. I've had my STL-50 for about a week now and felt I should let you know how pleased I am with it! The quality of the neck and body are outstanding although the tuners and saddles will probably be replaced. The pickups sound great. Please mention in your ads that my fellow lefties should not walk but "run" to their computers to place their order for this inexpensive gem! It is very comfortable to play. I also have a Str-at and Les Paul and had planned to leave this purchase at a friends house to jam on our lunch breaks. [I live 40 miles from the job and my friend lives near work ]As my guitar teacher said "now you'll have to get another guitar to leave there!" Thanks again, Frank" 6-2002 "Hi Kurt, I wanted let you know how pleased I am about the Essex STL-50 & hardshell case I had ordered recently, the guitar was very professionally setup and packed very well, this guitar is teriffic, it looks and plays great!! and I am very pleased at the quality and finish of guitar for the price! ( though I will eventually modify it some, the guitar is still great just as I recieved it out of the box!!! ) Best wishes to you and your Company!!! I will continue to do business with Rondo Music in 2002 and have been recomending your website to all my musician friends here in Hawaii. Thank you for being a very Professional and Honest Company. Aloha from the Islands," Richard Brunson 3-16-2002

"Kurt I received the STL-50 today. you service is incredible and this guitar sounds and looks great. I went to my local music store to get some new strings and I checked out a fend-er that was used going for seven hundred dollars. it sounded good but no better than the Guitar I just got for one seventh of the price. this guitar is a winner all the way around. I will be getting other guitars from you in the future. by the way I do own a original fend-er str-at I bought years ago I dont think its going to get much play time any time soon now. this SX has that crisp clean twang and honk , thanks again for a nice product at a super price and two day delivery I am impressed..." Steve Rivera 3-2002

"Just received my guitar. As before it is an tremendous value!!!!! The set up on the instrument was perfect. Thanks so much for another outstanding guitar. Later on l hope to add the acoustic-electric, the Les Paul Natural and the Les Paul Gold Top (both w/soap bar pick ups) to my Essex (SX) collection. These guitars are just incredible values...can't believe it. They enable people with meager funds (like yours truly) to own professional quality instruments that would otherwise be unobtainable. Hope you can hold the line on prices for awhile, but I realize that there is always upward price pressure (increasing overhead etc.). I feel so fortunate I was able to purchase these fine instruments when I did. Warmest regards, Jim 10-18-01

"Dear Kurt: I just received the natural finish STL-50 and I am absolutely 100% satisfied. It looks and sounds as promised. The service was quick and courteous, and the shipping/packing was excellent. I will be buying again soon, and that's my promise for your for being a great ebay-er. Happy holidays!!!"

"Overall Rating: 10 Good guitar at a Great price. Need I say more? I will be buying more in the future." Bruce Z. Allain at www.harmonycentral.com 11/18/2001

"I've been playing the guitar for 35 years. I own or have owned Fend-ers, gibson sonex and 335, Martin, Sigma, Kay, Alvarez, Trace-Elliot tramp, Fend-er twin, Bandmaster, and pro Jr, Electar 10, etc. I've built amps and fiddled with them--the same with guitars. I would buy another of these guitars (I might buy another soon). The natural transparent color I didn't order because it didn't look so great in the matched body-grain department (not even close in the photos). Guitars have become either commodity or collectable. This essex fits in the commodity category. Compare prices with any imports or domestics out there and essex beats them by forty dollars (more if you figure in the solid-wood body and thru-body bridge). Submitted by teg at 12/13/2000 08:34 at harmonycentral.com

"This SX is nice. I've always wanted one and this was cheap and available. I like it, it looks flashy and it costs 100 bucks, it sounds good and it cost 100 bucks. If you just want a back up guitar, go get this thing. It is no Fend-er, but it's worth it. " Submitted by Chris at 02/06/2001

"Several months ago I bought one of your SX guitars from an individual on ebay. It was used. I think it's an STL-62 (sunburst finish, antiqued maple neck, rosewood fretboard). Frankly I was looking for a piece of junk that I could feel comfortable about taking apart and re-working. I thought sure it would need new pickups, new tuners, so I could also refinish it and make some electrical mods. I had read that SX makes sturdy guitars, so I was expecting a good piece of wood with a neck on it. Well, Kurt, I found out as soon as I opened the box that if I wanted a piece of junk I should never buy an SX again. I simply cannot believe the quality guitar that you sell for $120+shipping. A music teacher in town assures me that it is far superior to the Squiers he has been selling to his beginning students, and your price beats the Squiers hands down. The tuners stay in tune. The pickups have plenty of output but are quiet, and their tone is great. The set up only needed some adjustment on the intonation. No buzzing from the frets anywhere on the neck, and the action comfortably low. From the communication I had with the previous owner, I gather this is the way he received it from you. Whenever my brother-in-law (a professional musician) comes by he wants to play my SX. He's as taken with it as I am, and he's had my '77 Str-at for several years. Granted, I didn't get this guitar from you but instead got it used. But after playing if for several months I wanted to pass along to you my thanks for importing these instruments. The SX shave to rate among the most incredible values in guitars that have ever been on the market. " Henry Cadenhead

A Note about Shipping:   We charge the actual published rate for shipping and do not make any profit on it.  Please understand that most musical instruments are not regular box shapped and therefore have higher than typical shipping costs.  We use a combination of UPS and Fed Ex for shipping.    In addition if somehow your item is damaged in shipping, we can send UPS to pickup your item and exchange fee of charge.  Just follow the directions on your receipt.  Sorry no shipping to PO or APO boxes. 

We target shipping out items within 3 business days of  receiving your payment.    When you receive your order will depend on how fast you get payment to us, and where the package is going.  Generally it's 3 to 10 days later.  Shipping charges listed include all costs including insurance.   We reserve the right not to honor any bid we deem to be suspicious or fraudulent in nature.

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Attention Candian Customers will charge all customs and brokerage charges up front.  It's built into the shipping price.  Nothing further is due upon pickup.  The price quoted on ebay is your final price!  Currently we are using Fed Ex for Candian Shipments

All prices are in USD.