The Marauder was introduced as an attempt to break into the single coil pickup bolt-on neck guitar market, which was dominated by Fender at that time.

[2] The Marauder sports a contoured single cutaway Les Paul-shaped body, and a bolt on a maple neck with a headstock similar to the Flying V's.

[1] Early Marauders had a three-way toggle switch on the treble side of the upper bout of the body (opposite the location on Les Pauls and ES-175s, similar to a Gibson Byrdland), to select either one or both pickups.

[5] Sum 41 lead vocalist and guitarist Deryck Whibley's first guitar was a walnut Marauder and he famously can be seen playing it in the music videos for "Fat Lip" and "In Too Deep".

Golden Earring guitarist George Kooymans used a Gibson Marauder for Drop-D songs like "Long Blonde Animal" live.

Notable users: Walter Schreifels of Rival Schools, George Johnson of The Brothers Johnson, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Fox Amato of Horace Green, Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks, Ricardo Mastria of Dead Fish, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Mick Taylor and Hugo Ali of Shitsunami.

Paul Stanley of Kiss claimed to have never actually played the Marauder but would bring one out for every encore and then smash the guitar in several pieces then throw them into the audience.