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Black Friday 2025: the best early deals you can get today

November 24, 2025

Black Friday is set to deliver its annual deluge of deals once again this year. The event and its follow-ups Cyber Weekend and Cyber Monday give guitarists a great chance to grab a saving on anything from a few packs of strings, to that dream instrument. The entire span from the week before Thanksgiving right through to Cyber Monday – AKA Cyber Week – is what serious gear-heads should be watching.
Right now early deals have already begun to roll out – retailers like Amazon, Sweetwater, Thomann, Reverb and zZounds have launched early bird promotions to capture pre-holiday spending. We’ve rounded up some of the best of these early deals – check those out below.
Where can you find savings on the day itself? Well, if you’re in the UK or the EU, there are some great deals to be had at Thomann and Amazon, as well as Reverb and PMT. In the US, you’ll be able to grab some savings at Guitar Center, Amazon, Reverb and zZounds.
The Guitar.com team is primed to find the best deals for you across all of Cyber Weekend – so be sure to check back here, as this page will be regularly updated with our best picks! Until then, here’s just some of the places we’ll be trawling for savings:

UK/EU Deals
US Deals

Thomann Save up to 70%
Reverb Up to 80% off

Reverb UK Up to 80% off
zZounds Black Friday savings

Positive Grid Up to 50% off
Sweetwater Up to 80% off

Gear4Music Black Friday deals
Positive Grid Up to 50% off

PMT Up to 70% off
Guitar Center Save up to 50%

Amazon UK Big savings
Amazon Black Friday deals

Guitar Tricks 20% off monthly sub
Tim Pierce Masterclass Free trial

Tim Pierce Masterclass Free trial
Guitar Tricks 20% off annual sub

Ultimate Ears EU Shop savings
Music & Arts 20% savings

Early Deals – USA
Both Sweetwater and Reverb have kicked off things with some great savings to be had in their early Black Friday events – check out our top picks below.
Charvel MJ So-Cal Style 1 HSS FR M on Reverb – was $1,679, now $899
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Courtesy of Franklin Guitar Works, this Charvel MJ So-Cal Style 1 HSS FR M is now discounted by almost $800 at Reverb. This Superstrat-style electric guitar is loaded with a trio of Seymour Duncan pickups – a humbucker in the bridge position and single coils in the middle and neck position – as well as a Gotoh double-locking tremolo for those juicy divebombs. And at an original price of $1,679 that’s a humungous 47% saving, so it would be rude not to…
MXR TBM1 Tom Morello Power 50 Overdrive on Reverb – nearly 70% off
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The MXR Power 50 is a signature overdrive for Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, so you can bet your bottom dollar (which you won’t be reduced to with this killer deal) that it’ll provide all the gnarly gain flavourings you’re after. Its circuitry even uses the same MOSFET technology to recreate the preamp stages of Morello’s own amp. It’s usually priced at $199.99, but it’s now just $64.99 (a 68% saving!). Get yours now.
Squier Limited Edition Paranormal Jazzmaster XII on Reverb – only $299
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Let’s face it, every guitarist needs a 12-string in their collection – those jangly natural chorus-type tones are just indispensable. And right now at Reverb, you can get this Squier Limited Edition Paranormal Jazzmaster XII in Sherwood Green at over 40% off, meaning you pay just $299 instead of $517. That’s a bargain if ever we saw one.
Electro-Harmonix JHS Pedals Lizard Queen Octave Fuzz on Reverb – just $45
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Perhaps you’re looking for a stocking filler ahead of Christmas? Well, a sub-$50 effects pedal is sure to do the trick, isn’t it? This Lizard Queen Octave Fuzz from Electro-Harmonix and JHS Pedals is just $44.95, and is based on a unique transistor-based octave fuzz distortion circuit designed by JHS head honcho Josh Scott.
See more Reverb deals here.
Save $200 on Walrus Audio’s Mako D1 delat at Sweetwater
The Mako D1 is an extremely fully-featured pedal, with stereo, MIDI, and more delay modes than you can shake an echoey stick at. At the time, we gave it a 10/10 and said: “There’s a startling amount of functionality available here – far more than we could hope to cover even in a review of double this length – in fact it’s no exaggeration to say that we are confident the D1 is capable of just about any existing delay texture as well as myriad yet to be discovered.”
All that makes it pretty appealing on its own. But for Black Friday, Sweetwater has discounted the pedal by a whopping $200! Make no mistake – even though the unit has been surpassed in some ways with the MkII (different to the V2 – confusing, yes) – a pedal like this for only $149 is an absolute bargain. Check out the deal below:
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Save $10.63 on GHS’ GBL-6 Guitar Boomers Electric Guitar Strings at Sweetwater – were $37.62, now $26.99
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A great stocking stuffer for the guitarist in your life? This six-pack of GHS Boomers is now even better value thanks to a discount down to just $26.99. Breaking a string without a backup is any guitarist’s worst nightmare – one that can be avoided if you stock up!
Save $18.75 on a RockBoard by Warwick Tres 3.1 Pedalboard at Sweetwater – was $124.99, now $106.24
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The Rockboard Tres 3.1 Pedalboard is a great mid-sized option for guitarists of all stripes. With a lightweight build and easily cable-managed design, you also have the ability to add a Rockboard Mod module to expand the board out with a patch bay or other utility connections – perfect for easy setups and teardowns, while keeping things neat!
Save $194.9 on a Electro-Harmonix Soul POG at Sweetwater – was $324.8, now $129.90
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Want some polyphonic octaves but with a little more grit than the standard POG? There’s a huge discount of 50% to be had on this Electro-Harmonix Soul POG, a dual pedal that mashes up the Klon-inspired drive sounds of the Soul Food with the multi-octave pitching of the POG, allowing for some awesome overdriven octave sounds – and for only $129.90, you’re effectively getting two amazing effects for the price of one!
Save $170 on a PRS Sonzera 20 combo amp at Sweetwater – was $1099, now $929
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This 20-watt 1×12 tube amplifier can handle everything from the most pristine of cleans to thick, saturated crunch. You also get all of the bells and whistles you might need from a modern tube amplifier, including footswitch control, an effects loop, and multiple speaker outputs to expand your sound. However, the included 12-inch celestion speaker and 20 watts of tube power will still do a great job at projecting you over most drummers!
Save $100 on a Exclusive Olive Green Line 6 HX Stomp – was $699, now $599
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For Black Friday you can save $100 on a Sweetwater-exclusive Olive Green variant of the HX Stomp, one of the most powerful modelling units out there, packing tons of different tones into a pedalboard-friendly unit that leverages Line 6’s decades of digital experience. Perfect if the only analogue pedal in your rig is a Sovtek Big Muff, and you want to keep a consistent colour scheme!
Save $300 on a Epiphone Dave Grohl DG-335 in Pelham Blue – was $1299, now $999
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Dave Grohl’s hard-to-find signature Gibson Trini Lopez 335 graced the Epiphone product lineup and finally allowed Foo fans a bit more an accessible version of his cooler-than-cool semi-hollow. For Black Friday you can save a substantial $300 on the guitar, which is a pretty faithful affordable version of Grohl’s ultra-rare Gibson Custom DG-335 signature model – down to using the very same Gibson USA Burstbucker pickups.
See more Sweetwater deals here.
Early Deals – UK/EU
Thomann has led the charge with some great early deals, especially on the acoustic front. But there are savings for everyone, no matter what style you play. Case in point:
Save £339 on a Strandberg Boden 6 essential in Astro Dust at Thomann – was £1050, now £711
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This Strandberg is already affordable for an ergonomic headless guitar, but with another big discount it’s a great way to enter into a totally new guitar universe. Who needs headstocks anyway?
Save £554 on a Gibson Marcus King ES-345 60’s at Thomann – was £3499, now £2945
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Marcus King has pretty awesome taste in guitars, and this 1960s-style cherry red ES-345 is no exception. With more blues-rock style than you could shake a stick at, including two awesome humbuckers, a fixed vibrola tailpiece, split-block inlays and an engraved stud-anchor cover, this guitar’s even more enticing thanks to a heft discount.
Save £24 on a Harley Benton DNAfx GiT at Thomann – was £129, now £105
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Maybe you’re new to the world of digital modelling and want to just dip a toe in – or maybe you’re a beginner guitarist on a budget. The DNAfx GiT is a great option in either case, even more so with a chunk of change knocked off the price!
Save £469 on a Fender LTD Am Pro II Stratocaster at Thomann – was £1868, now £1399
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Fender’s Am Pro II range are some of the sleekest and most impressive guitars you can get from the brand outside of its Custom Shop models. This classic-styled Strat is loaded with high-performance features, and has an amazing saving of almost £500 for Thomann’s early Cyber Week deals!
Save £90 on a Martin GPC 10e Roadseries Special at Thomann – was £879, now £789
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One of the best-sounding, affordable Martins out there, this guitar is also utterly beautiful, with a rich dark finish for its solid sapele back and sides.
Save £23 on a Boss Katana Mini X in limited-edition Blue at Thomann – was £145, now £122
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Portable yet powerful, there’s a great discount on this pint-sized amp from Boss, finished in a cool limited-edition blue so you can stand out while you play.
Save £855 on a Martin Custom D18 at Thomann – was £5299, now £4444
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This top-of-the-line Martin D18 is perhaps the pinnacle of the brand’s instrument design, and you can save a whopping £855 right now. Perfect if you want to really up your acoustic game in 2026!
See more Thomann deals here.
When is Black Friday 2025?
Black Friday 2025 will officially commence on 28 November 2025, with Cyber Monday 2025 falling on Monday, December 1, 2025. Across this weekend you’ll want to keep an eye on all of your favourite retailers, and indeed this very site – Guitar.com will be trawling the guitar world to find you the biggest and the best deals we can, on everything from string-winders to seven-strings.
It’s important to not just focus on the physical gear, too! Deals on plugins and amp sims are standar often featuring really hefty discounts. If you’re a bedroom producer, it’s a great time to stock your virtual gear collection with some industry-leading plugins without breaking the bank.
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