The Classic series ’50s Esquire features an ash body, a C-shaped maple neck, a vintage-style three-saddle string-through-body Telecaster bridge, and a vintage-style single-coil Telecaster pickup with custom-wired three-way switching. The three-way switching on a single-pickup guitar gives you three preset tones. In the bridge position, the pickup is connected only to the volume control (the …
A fond farewell to Bert Weedon who died today aged 91. Thanks for the riffs Bert.
The RD standard bass was launched with the active RD artist in 1977, and sold just over 900 instruments to 1979 when production ceased. The standard was the passive model and featured two newly designed Gibson series 3 humbuckers. The body was solid maple, with a three-piece laminated set maple neck. Fingerboards were either maple …
Graham Coxon Signature Telecaster Around £550 Fender hounors Blur guitarist and famous Telecaster user with a signature guitar with a Blonde finish ash body, C-shaped maple neck. It has a gloss urethane finish, rosewood fingerboard with 9.5” radius and 21 medium jumbo frets, Seymour Duncan® ’59 SH-1 humbucking neck pickup with black bezel, vintage-style single-coil …
This new offering from Epiphone/Gibson is a Les Paul lookalike which features a Nanomag pickup for acoustic tones, as well as the pair of Epiphone’s new ProBucker™ humbucking pickups similar to Gibson’s BurstBuckers™. Also built into the bridge pickup mounting ring is a full-function, chromatic tuner. By using the standard 1/4″ jack both the humbuckers and …
Wow, another anniversary model. Pete Townshend started using the SG model when it became too expensive to smash up the semi acoustics that he was playing. At least the SG could be repaired a little easier. It comes with: Solid Mahogany body with Alpine White nitrocellulose finish Slim, fast 60’s style neck profile Two Gibson USA P-90 …
Yet more Anniversary Models from Fender The Telecaster has been around for a while and now with yet another limited edition launched you may feel spoiled for choice. From the top they are: 1 Flame Top 2 Old Growth Redwood 3 Modern Thinline. Advertised at …
Gibson Midtown Standard The Midtown Standard with Bigsby® has a solid mahogany body a solid maple top with f-holes is glued on and comes ins Faded Red, as shown, or Ebony Black. A solid mahogany neck is carved to ’60s-style profile that measures .800″ at the 1st fret and .875″ at the 12th, and has …
This Duane Eddy signature model is based on a ’57 “Chet Atkins” style G6120 that he used on some of his string of late 1950s and early ’60s instrumental hits. To give the axe it’s full title it is the “Gretsch G6120DE Duane Eddy Signature model hollow body guitar” Like me he is still around …
This new offering from Gibson is a long-scale, drop-tuned instrument with a 28″ scale length that is suitable for lower tuning. It comes with a maple top and weight-relieved mahogany body. The mahogany neck has the ’50s profile with a rosewood fingerboard that has 22 medium-jumbo frets and a 12-inch radius with a 1 11/16″ nut width. I have yet …
