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Scott French SF3 Electric Travel Guitar & Travel Bag
If you’re in the market for a unique, fully-featured, handmade electric travel guitar, you might want to check out Scott French’s new SF3 Travel and its accompanying custom-fit travel/gig bag by Cocaine Mule. Scott French is a Northern California guitar maker––local to my area––so I’m hoping to get one of these in for review, but in [...]
Continue reading...Check It! Stewart’s Stow-Away Travel Guitar
17. October 2006
Hehe… I came across this post over at Real Tech News this morning, and I thought I’d better share the goods with you all––it’s the Stow-Away Travel Guitar from Stewart Guitars. This electric guitar, which features an alder body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard and a trio of single-coil pickups, is apparently so collapsible you can fit [...]
Continue reading...A Closer Look: Fender’s New Highway One Stratocaster
6. September 2006
Back in July we covered the release of Fender’s newly upgraded Highway One line of guitars, but now that some time has passed I thought it might be nice to take a deeper look at what is easily the most popular of the bunch – the Highway One Stratocaster. Now, the Highway Ones have always offered [...]
Continue reading...Zemaitis By Greco: The Gorgeous GZ-3300WF
11. August 2006
Last year I was introduced to the unique beauty and hand-made quality of Zemaitis guitars when I accidentally stumbled across the gorgeous Zemaitis Metal Front – a hand engraved, metal topped monster that looks roughly like a Les Paul, but with a whole lot more personality. While Zemaitis is known for their incredible hand-crafted masterpieces (these [...]
Continue reading...Dream Machine: Marshall’s 1974X Reissue
21. July 2006
Another Dream Amp From Marshall I’ve been considering a number of amps recently, and one that’s really caught my eye is Marshall’s reissue 1974X — a hand-wired recreation of their classic 18-watt tube amp, the 1974 — which, ironically enough, was produced during the mid to late ’60s. The 1974X is getting phenomenal reviews, and its no [...]
Continue reading...Unique Hand-Carved Archtop: Eastman’s El Rey Deluxe Rock
10. July 2006
Eastman Strings has been making quality stringed instruments since 1992 – mostly violins, violas, cellos and the like – but their recent foray into guitars, particularly jazz archtops, is garnering a lot of attention from the music industry. Word on the street is that Eastman’s attention to detail & craftsmanship, and their quite affordable price range, [...]
Continue reading...What’ll It Be? Line 6 Flextone III Plus
3. July 2006
Well, I’m in the market for a new amplifier, and in spite of my nearly fanatic love of tube amps I’m finding myself leaning heavily towards the Flextone III Plus, from Line 6 — yep, a digital modeling amp. Why? Because it’s versatile (it models 32 different classic amps,) surprisingly affordable (about $600,) and it does [...]
Continue reading...Got $13,000? Have We Got A Les Paul For You!
28. June 2006
Living In The Lap Of Luxury So what do you get the guitarist in your life who has everything? Well, one Gibson luthier (yes, I’m sure they get paid well) apparently had this Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul Special (non-aff) commissioned with hand engraving by master artist Darryl Thornbury. I’m not sure how Musician’s Friend ended up [...]
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26. December 2006
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