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Epiphone Introduces So Cal 50H Head & 412SL Cabinet

17. October 2006

Last week Epiphone announced it’s latest foray into the tube-amp market, with what looks to be another solid performer––the new So Cal 50H Amplifier. According to Epiphone the amp features a 100% tube signal-path, paired with a solid state rectifier and tube powered reverb. At the same time they introduced their new So Cal 412SL [...]

Check It! Stewart’s Stow-Away Travel Guitar

17. October 2006

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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 [...]

REVIEW: The J3 Pro 6

16. October 2006

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Light Weight, Coil Tapping, Double Octave Fun J3 Guitars hasn’t been around all that long––they introduced their first line of instruments at the Summer NAMM show in 2005––but I can assure you that the three men behind the company (all named John––hence the name J3) definitely know a thing or two about designing guitars. In [...]

Rare Find: Myrareguitars.com

12. October 2006

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Trust me, if you’re not looking to absolutely destroy your productivity for the rest of the day then by all means do not follow this link over to My Rare Guitars. Michael Robinson, the man behind Eastwood Guitars, and to whom we owe a huge debt of gratitude for recreating so many incredible old guitar [...]

Prototype For Fender’s Highway One Strat Is Now Up For Grabs

10. October 2006

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Most of the big guitars makers end up giving away a fair number of great instruments as part of their promotional campaigns (if you follow this blog you might have noticed that Gibson & Epiphone are particularly proficient at this) but the latest contest from Fender seriously ups the ante. While IMHO any free guitar [...]

Schecter Announces Limited Edition Leatherface Avenger

10. October 2006

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Well, just in time for Halloween, and the release last Friday of the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel––“TCM: The Beginning,” Schecter Guitar Research sent out an e-mail yesterday with a sneak peek of their latest shredder, the Leatherface Avenger. There isn’t much in the way of specs available at this point (the instrument doesn’t have [...]

Devilishly Divine: Schecter’s C-1 SheDevil In Stores Now

2. October 2006

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Schecter’s new and highly anticipated C-1 SheDevil is apparently now in stores and available for your ogling (don’t even think about fondling.) The instrument, which is just the latest installment in Schecter’s popular C-1 line, is expected to sell for somewhere in the mid-$700s. While the SheDevil actually sports a number of stand-out features––including a [...]

Semi-Hollow Hardtail: Fender Unveils Strat-O-Sonic

29. September 2006

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In the big scheme of things Fender’s venerable Stratocaster line has really changed very little over the years––sure, they’ve tweaked the neck profile, experimented with different body contours, and have certainly messed with the hardware quite a bit (perhaps most notably the incredibly cool S-1 Switching System,) but overall the guitar is pretty much the [...]

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