“Whether you’re chasing that famously haunting Wicked Game intro or carving out a completely new sound, it gives you inspiration from the moment you plug in”: Silvertone resurrects the cult guitar loved by Elvis Costello, Hubert Sumlin and Chris Isaak

A black and white photo of Chris Isaak playing his Silvertone 1446 in 1987. On the right, a cutout of the recently reissued guitar in black and sunburst finishes, with the black version offered with a Bigsby B70 vibrato.

NAMM 2026: After some 60 years out of production, hunted down relentlessly on the vintage market, the Silvertone 1446 is back.

In Hubert Sumlin’s hands, this semi-hollow electric was a formidable blues guitar. In Elvis Costello’s it was the sound of power-pop, rock and new-wave. Perhaps most famously, the haunting dream-world twang of Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game came via this electric guitar (heck, his debut album is titled Silvertone).