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“One of my favourite forgotten Gibson designs of all time”: The cult RD Custom is officially back
Gibson president and CEO Cesar Gueikian loves them, so too the Nameless Ghouls of Ghost, and this oft-slept on model becomes ...
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Gibson has re-launched one of its weirdest ever guitars
The Gibson name may make you think of the Les Paul or the SG, but one of its stranger creations has just joined the guitar-maker’s Custom Shop line-up: the ...
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How Often To Change Guitar Strings - A Beginner's Guide
For those of us who play a few times a week, changing strings every 1-3 months is a good rule of thumb. This keeps your tone ...
Paul Gilbert names his three favorite guitars – including one that was stolen very recently
The virtuoso behind Mr. Big and Racer X digs out three stalwarts from his arsenal of Ibanez guitars and explains what makes ...
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‘Arguably the Most Significant Sparkle Fender Ever’: How Buck Owens’ Glitzy Western Style Inspired Fender’s Sparkle Guitars
Fender's iconic sparkle-finish guitars—an essential chapter in what is inarguably one of the most influential portfolios of modern guitar design. Born out of Midcentury Southern California's postwar ...
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John Mayer had an unusual idea about how to fix his Fender Custom Shop Strat
Over the years, John Mayer has proven his credentials when it comes to gear, with his best-selling PRS Silver Sky signature guitar arguably the most impressive feather in his cap. But long before he ...
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When it comes to BC-made guitars, the wood makes it good
Kurkdjian is not a builder himself, but he is a guitarist with an encyclopedic knowledge of tonewoods and the ins and outs of instrument construction. He launched Prestige in 2003 after several years ...
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Orangewood comes under fire for its Jupiter rubber bridge guitars
and it’s one that can be traced back to the innovations developed by luthier and Old Style Guitar Shop owner, Reuben Cox. Cox’s custom-made instruments, which are available directly from his ...
B.C. guitar-makers find fans from Shania Twain to Slash's band
A Wilkie Blue Nocturne model was featured in the Blue Guitar Collection exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The collection was originally built by the late archtop ...
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Fender’s Justin Norvell on the $599 Standard Series and why it's not a Squier with a different decal
from the [Squier] Sonic Series all the way up to Custom Shop. We have upped quality so much in Ensenada. It’s not just that prices have increased there, what those guitars are today is not what those ...
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Some start as furniture and others come from trash piles. They all become Charleston-built guitars.
A long piece of lumber with a wooden square screwed to the end, designed to smack down wasps that find their way into the shop ... now focuses on his custom electric guitars and dabbles in ...