Electric Guitar

A little while ago we told you about AweSome Musical Instruments and their Pickup Tone Multiplier kit – now they have embedded their system into left-handed pickguards for Strats. Their latest MOD offering allows you to get 35 different pickup tones from your 3 pickup left-handed Stratocaster, and apparently there’s no soldering involved in the […]

In response to high-demand for an affordable single-cutaway, dual-humbucker guitar, Johnson releases the left-handed and 3/4-size Solara Specials, great-sounding and great looking guitars perfect for beginners or student players. With a solid basswood body and bolt-on maple neck with satin finish, the Solara Special (JL-750) begins with the essential ingredients for an entry-level rocker. The

Matt “Guitar” Murphy deserves his legendary status having worked with many great musicians over his long career, and appearing in both Blues Brothers films and the band by that name. And now he can add a signature axe from Delaney Guitars to his list of achievements. “Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy is a legend in the industry

NAMM 2012 witnessed the unveiling of the new Vortex Elite JP, Fernandes’ latest V shaped electric guitar offering. Looks like Fernandes wants to sonically and visually impress with the new Vortex Elite JP. I do find it aesthetically cool. It is a 25.5″ scale electric guitar with a Neck Through design. Further reinforcement is afforded

One of the things that jumps out at you when first setting eyes upon the V-Hawk Elite is the combination of post-modern contours and the somewhat eerie fluorescent finish – this guitar certainly has points of difference. Actually Fernandes call the finish “Chameleon” as the colors change as you change the viewing angle. Fernandes say

Epiphone’s Ultra series start from the traditional models, then add in some quite useful technologies, to arrive at a guitar that is quite different to the original. [Click to Enlarge] [Click to Enlarge] And so it is with Epiphone’s 3rd generation of Les Paul Ultra’s, where the pickups and electronics set these apart from the

With Christmas just around the corner, you will no doubt have some spare time on your hands. So rather than spend these holidays with nagging relatives, why not build yourself a lap steel guitar? It’s really not that difficult and, best of all, it’s so cheap you could probably auction those less than exciting gifts

As anyone who has learned about ancient human history will know – we are all African.   Perhaps it’s those prehistoric roots that led someone to say “The kids in America need a GMP Guitar wilder than Kim”!   Or maybe not…. The truth is I have no idea why they did it, but it

Airline ’59 Coronado was just released by Eastwood Guitars. [Click to Enlarge] This new Eastwood Guitar is the company’s tribute to Dan Auerbach’s vintage Supro. It features a black rubber binding around it’s clear white body. The black headstock with white binding then offsets the color of the body for a nice visual contrast. The

Joey Leone is a Vermont based guitarist who has worked with Eastwood Guitars on 3 signature models. [Click for Full Size Guitar] You may not recognize the name at first glance, but he is a respected musician who has endorsement deals not only with Eastwood, but also Marshall, VOX, and others. Joey Leone has played