This one-of-a-kind Fender Stratocaster was auctioned off for a record-breaking $2.8 million in a Reach Out To Asia auction in 2006, smashing the previous guitar sale record of just under a million dollars set by Eric Clapton's guitar in 2004. Through fundraising and charity auctions, the organization hopes to help problems all around Asia.

The Reach Out To Asia has been signed by nearly every living musician, including Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger, and many more! All of these world-class artists came to sign the guitar in the hopes of gaining awareness and support for the charity's important work.

This magnificent guitar was auctioned off at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Doha, Qatar, and was purchased by Her Highness Sheihka Miyyassah Al Thani. The proceeds from the guitar sales were used to assist people in need following the Tsunami, which claimed many lives and devastated countless houses.

As one of the most expensive guitars in the world, The Reach Out To Asia is known for its sturdy white body and a series of silver accents around the neck and top end. This high-end simplicity highlights the magnificent black signatures that adorn the guitar's body, stressing its status as an incredible and unique piece of history.

Price: $2.7 million

The Gibson J-160E is one of the Gibson Guitar Corporation's earliest acoustic-electric guitars. Gibson's J-160E was their second effort at making an acoustic-electric guitar (the first being the small-body CF-100E). The main idea behind the guitar was to incorporate a single pickup onto a standard-sized dreadnought acoustic guitar. The J-160E's body was ladder-braced and made mostly of plywood, whereas other acoustic Gibsons were X-braced. The rosewood fingerboard had trapezoid inlays, and the bridge was adjustable. A single-coil pickup (an uncovered P-90 pickup) with pole screws protruding through the top near the end of the fingerboard was put beneath the top of the body for amplification, along with a volume and tone knob.

The Gibson J-160 E electric acoustic was one of a pair of nearly identical acoustic guitars purchased in London in 1962 by John Lennon and George Harrison. After the Beatles played a show in 1963, the guitar mysteriously vanished and was considered lost, only to emerge some years later.

Gibson makes a normal J-160E as well as a John Lennon J-160E Peace model based on the J-160E he used during the 1969 Bed-In. Epiphone produces a John Lennon replica signature model, the EJ-160E.

Price: $2.4 million

If you ever visit Seattle, a visit to the Museum of Pop Culture is definitely worth your time, as it houses the legendary white Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix used during his Woodstock performance. The guitar in question was purchased for a cool $2 million by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Allen, who died in 2018, was an avid guitarist and collector — Quincy Jones stated Allen could play "just like" Jimi Hendrix, who had inspired him.

While Allen understandably wanted to play the guitar used in perhaps the most iconic moment in rock guitar history, his motivation for purchasing it appeared to be more altruistic – the guitar held special significance to him, as it had inspired his lifelong love affair with guitar, and as such, he purchased it so that it could be displayed at MoPOP so that everyone could see it and hopefully be inspired as he had been. Allen was purchasing a physical representation of Jimi Hendrix's legacy and laying it out for the world to see and experience.

Price: $2 million

According to the Associated Press, as one of the most expensive guitars, Jerry Garcia's Wolf guitar sold at auction for more than $1.9 million on Wednesday. For nearly two decades, Garcia's go-to instrument was "Wolf." The Grateful Dead singer-guitarist first used the instrument during a Hell's Angels gig in New York City in 1973.

Daniel Pritzker, a philanthropist, musician, and filmmaker, was Wolf's former owner. He purchased the guitar anonymously in 2002 for $790,000. It was the biggest bid for a guitar in history at the time.“I’ve been a fan of the Dead since I was a kid, and playing this iconic guitar over the past 15 years has been a privilege,” Pritzker said before the auction.“But the time is right for Wolf to do some good.”

Jerry Garcia's Wolf was the first of numerous instruments built for Garcia by renowned luthier Doug Irwin. The guitarist, on the other hand, customized the guitar's unusual purple heart and curly maple body by affixing a sticker of a cartoon wolf below the bridge. Wolf appeared heavily in Garcia's 1977 concert film The Grateful Dead Movie. Garcia last played guitar with the Grateful Dead on February 23rd, 1993 at the Oakland Coliseum.

Price: $1.9 million

Bob Marley's Washburn 22-Series Hawk guitar is the fifth most expensive guitar in the world. The guitar, valued at US$1.2 million, is classed as a national asset by the Jamaican government and is one of just seven known guitars possessed by the Reggae legend. Scholars identify the Washburn 22 fret double-cutaway guitar as one of Bob's favorites. Following Marley's death in 1981, the Jamaican government designated most of the singer's possessions, including this guitar, as national treasures and paid 1.2 million dollars for the guitar. Gary had been offered up to $6 million for the guitar but had always refused to sell it. He sold it to the Jamaican government to help his philanthropic foundation, "Different Journeys, One Destination."

It's a 22 fret, double-cutaway Washburn with a neck-thru design. The history and specifications of this instrument are a little murky, as some believe it was custom-ordered. Since its foundation in 1883, it has changed hands numerous times. The Washburn name was purchased for $13,000 by Fretted Industries Inc in 1977, and the Hawk went into production the following year at a factory in Japan that satisfied the specifications they were looking for. The headquarters of the corporation were in Chicago.

Price: $1.2 million

Regarded as one of the most expensive guitars, The 1958 Gibson Korina Explorer is a kind of electric guitar manufactured by Gibson guitars in 1958. The Explorer had a radical, "futuristic" body design, similar to its siblings: the Flying V, debuted the same year, and the Moderne, conceived in 1957 but not delivered until 1982. The Explorer was the culmination of a prototype design that Gibson eventually marketed under the name Futura.

The Explorer's first run was a failure, and the model was canceled in 1963. After competitor Hamer Guitars had success selling similar designs, Gibson began reissuing the Explorer in 1976. The Explorer was especially popular among the 1970s and 1980s hard rock and heavy metal performers.

During the 1958 run of the original Korina wood model, Gibson built just a few Explorers. Because production records were destroyed and shipping records were lost, it is unknown how many were built, but the original run total was estimated to be little more than 50.

The Explorer had a long drooping headstock with tuners in a straight line on one side after the first few guitars (referred to sometimes as "banana" and "hockey-stick"). Grover Jackson, inventor of Jackson Guitars, and other electric guitar producers such as Kramer incorporated this headstock style 20 years later, ushering in the "pointy-headstock era" of guitars. However, the very first Explorers produced between 1957 and spring 1958 sported a unique "split"-shaped head with tuners arranged in a regular 3+3 arrangement, which was carried over from the Explorer prototype (better known as the Futura).

The 1958 Gibson Korina Explorer is one of the most valuable production-model guitars on the market, ranking fourth on Vintage Guitar's 2011 Top 25 and worth between $250,000 and $300,000. Only 22 bodies were shipped in its first two years, 19 in 1958 and three in 1959; an unknown (small) number of residual bodies were finished with nickel 1960s gear and sold in 1963. There are currently 38 examples known to exist.

Price: $1.1 million

The Keith Richards 1959 Les Paul initially appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1959, during the Rolling Stones' very first performance. Since then, this instrument has been rocking on stage, and Richards is still rocking on stage at the age of 75, which earns him a lot of respect. This guitar has a history of its own. During the early days of the Stones, Richard considered Les Paul.

However, Richard eventually decided to sell this guitar, which he sold to his fellow bandmate Mick Taylor. However, it returned to Richard when Mick Taylor took over as the Stones' second guitarist after Brain Jones. But, in 1971, Les Paul was stolen, but it unexpectedly resurfaced in the hands of Cosmo Verrico, the guitarist for Heavy Metal Kids. Les Paul was auctioned off for $1 million back in 2003.

The Keith Richards 1959 Les Paul is unquestionably one of the most significant and legendary Les Pauls in rock & roll history. Keith was one of the first persons to purchase a 1959 Standard, which was a relatively minor model discontinued by Gibson in 1960. It was later replaced with a double-cutaway model, which became the Gibson SG. Following Keith's popularization of the model, guitarists including Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Paul Kossoff, and Jimmy Page all chose a 1959 Les Paul Standard as their primary instrument.

The fact that all of those guys played the same version of the Les Paul helped to popularize the model and make it one of the most sought-after guitars. Les Paul Standards produced in 1959, which originally cost less than $300 with a case (about $2,500 in today's market), now typically sells for $200,000 and above. The 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard is often regarded as the "holy grail" of electric guitars today.

Price: $1 million

When Bob Dylan performed his Sunburst Fender Stratocaster at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, he made rock history. Almost 50 years later, the instrument generated another "moment" when it sold for nearly $1 million at an auction in New York on Friday — the highest price ever paid for a guitar at the sale. The absentee buyer who agreed to pay $965,000 (£590,432) for the sunburst-finish guitar was not immediately identified by Christie's auction house.

Christie's auction house has set a pre-sale estimate of $300,000-$500,000 for the instrument, which comes with its original black leather strap and hard-shell container. The previous record for an auctioned guitar was Eric Clapton's Fender, dubbed Blackie, which sold at Christie's in 2004 for $959,500.

A family from New Jersey has had Bob Dylan's 1964 Fender Stratocaster for nearly 50 years. Dylan flew out in a private plane piloted by the owner's late father, Vic Quinto, who worked for Dylan's manager. Dawn Peterson stated that her father contacted the management business about what to do with the instrument but received no response.

She took it to the PBS television show History Detectives last year to get it validated. Andy Babiuk, a consultant to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and owner of an upstate New York antique instrument shop, and Jeff Gold, a Dylan memorabilia expert, contributed to the presentation. Both males stated definitely that it was Bob Dylan's 1964 Fender Stratocaster.

Price: $965,000

Eric Clapton gave his favorite Fender Stratocaster the moniker "Blackie." Clapton transitioned from Gibson electric guitars to Fender Stratocasters in 1970, owing to Jimi Hendrix and Blind Faith bandmate Steve Winwood's influences. His first Stratocaster, dubbed "Brownie" due to its sunburst brown finish, appeared on his albums Eric Clapton and Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.

Clapton discovered the Sho-Bud guitar shop in Nashville, Tennessee, the same year. He paid two or three hundred dollars for six 1950s Stratocasters. After donating one to each of George Harrison, Pete Townshend, and Steve Winwood, he chose the best components of the remaining three (made between 1956 and 1957) and had Nashville luthier Ted Newman Jones put them together as "Blackie," so named for its black finish.

Clapton performed Blackie for the first time live on January 13, 1973, at the Rainbow Concert. Clapton would play Blackie on and off stage for many years (including a cameo in The Last Waltz) until it was decommissioned after the Behind The Sun tour in 1985 due to neck problems. According to Clapton's specs, the Eric Clapton Stratocaster was released in 1988; he began playing his own trademark model immediately after.

In 2004, Eric Clapton’s “Blackie” was auctioned off for $959,500 USD to benefit the Crossroads Centre, a drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation center created by Clapton. The auction was won by the music equipment retailer Guitar Center, and the bid set the global record for the most costly guitar.

Price: $959,000

Jerry Garcia commissioned "Tiger" immediately after receiving the "Wolf" guitar from Doug Irwin in 1973, instructing Irwin to create the most expensive instrument he was capable of. The instrument, which is made of finely detailed exotic woods glued and fused together and adorned with ornate brass bindings and a tiger inlay, took Irwin over two thousand hours to produce over a six-year period. Garcia initially performed "Tiger" at the Oakland Civic Auditorium on August 4, 1979, and he used it nearly exclusively until 1989. Jerry Garcia's Custom Doug Irwin "Tiger" was the last guitar Garcia ever played publicly with the Grateful Dead, on July 9, 1995.

Cocobolo top and back, sandwiched maple and padauk core, quilted maple on back, three-piece flame maple and padauk neck with brass binding, and ebony fingerboard characterize Jerry Garcia's Custom Doug Irwin "Tiger". "J. GARCIA" was inlaid at the end of the fingerboard, and the headstock was brass-bound with a mother-of-pearl globe and an ivory eagle logo. Mother-of-pearl tiger inlay framed in ebony and brass on front of the body, brass-bound quilted maple circle with mother-of-pearl vegetal inlay and marquetry on back.

Jerry Garcia's Custom Doug Irwin "Tiger" was auctioned off in 2002 for $957,500 to Jim Irsay, owner, and CEO of the Indianapolis Colts.

Price: $957,500