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Catching Up With Gibson’s Guitar Of The Week
Wow… take a trip to Hawaii for two weeks and you miss all the fun ;) Gibson announced two new Guitar Of The Week instruments while I was gone, plus another one just this morning, but the biggest news out of the three will undoubtedly be Guitar Of The Week #16––the long awaited return of the [...]
Continue reading...New For 2007: Fender ‘62 Heavy Relic Stratocaster
18. May 2007
Fender continues to expand its popular (and somewhat controversial) line of “Relic” guitars with the recently announced 2007 Custom Shop Limited Release ‘62 Heavy Relic Stratocaster (quick, say that ten times fast.) This latest model was apparently built to exude the seriously worn-in vibe of a vintage ‘62 Strat that’s seen a few too many nights [...]
Continue reading...Campbell American Unveils Latest Creation: The UK-1
17. May 2007
Well, I’m not at all sure when they made the official announcement, but cruising Campbell American’s site this morning I came upon what looks to be the latest edition to their family of fine hand made guitars––the UK-1. If you’ve never heard of Campbell American, they’re a boutique guitar maker out of New England’s Blackstone Valley, [...]
Continue reading...Fender To Produce American Vintage ‘57 Commemorative Stratocaster
9. May 2007
Well, I have yet to see any kind of “official” word from Fender, but according to a rather unfinished looking product page on their website the company has a new guitar in the works–the American Vintage 1957 Commemorative Stratocaster. I think it’s safe to assume the guitar is meant to celebrate the 50-year Anniversary of the [...]
Continue reading...Epiphone Faded DOT & Worn Firebird Get Guitar World Magazine’s Gold Award
2. May 2007
Well, the ink hasn’t even dried yet, but according to an e-mail from Epiphone two of their guitars––the Faded DOT Studio & Worn Firebird Studio––will be receiving the Gold Award for Overall Value in the June ‘07 edition of Guitar World Magazine. Both instruments are low-cost remakes of classic Gibson guitars, and while I haven’t personally [...]
Continue reading...Epiphone & Guitar World Giving Away An Elitist 1965 Casino
1. May 2007
Well, here’s your chance to win a bit of re-issued history… Epiphone & Guitar World have apparently teamed together to give away an Epiphone Elitist 1965 Casino––a reissue of the guitar used at various times by three of the Beatles, and to this day Epiphone’s most celebrated instrument. To be honest, I’ve been drooling over these [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #15: Les Paul GT In Fire Engine Red
30. April 2007
Nice… when Gibson first released the Les Paul GT back in 2006 I was seriously impressed with the sheer number of upgrades the guitar shipped with, but also more than a little put off by the guitar’s less than subtle design (guitar + flames = cheesy IMHO.) But I’m happy to say that there’s now whole [...]
Continue reading...Introducing The Verbrovibe: Headstrong’s ‘63 Brown Vibroverb Replica
27. April 2007
Hehe, you’ve gotta’ love this… Headstrong Amplifiers, self-proclaimed makers of the world’s only “exact replica of the 1964 Princeton reverb and 1964 Deluxe Reverb Blackface” have done it again, this time producing the first true replica of Fender’s classic, and not to mention seriously hard to come by, ‘63 Brown Vibroverb. And they call it the [...]
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23. May 2007
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