And this year's haul is looking pretty enticing as well. One highlight: Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo's very first guitar. The guitar, a Hagstrom II, rarely saw action outside of the budding ...

Nuts are a small grooved material, usually bone, graphite or plastic, that sit at the top of a guitar neck and which holds the strings in place. But during an early-80s guitar solo during a gig at ...