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Fender Building Junkyard Dog ‘51 Tele For Garrett Park Guitars
As part of their LTD Dealer Select Series Fender is building this ‘51 Junkyard Dog Telecaster Relic exclusively for Garrett Park Guitars, in Annapolis, MD. According to their website, the Junkyard Tele will be built from original tooling, and as far as I can gather will be a bit of a mish-mash of modern & vintage [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #11 :: Thunderbird IV Zebra Wood Bass
3. April 2007
Nice… Gibson just announced the newest member in its Guitar Of The Week series, and its a beauty––the Thunderbird IV Zebra Wood Bass. The guitar is of course a re-working of Gibson’s popular ‘63 Thunderbird IV, though unlike the original, which featured mahogany wings (the center stripe of the body is actually part of the neck,) [...]
Continue reading...New From The Custom Shop: Fender Introduces Stratocaster Pro
2. April 2007
And the endless parade of slightly tweaked guitars continues… Fender recently announced one of the latest instruments to come out of its venerable Custom Shop, the new Stratocaster Pro––a guitar apparently aimed at the pro-level market, and sporting a number of features that according to Fender can be found “on the instruments of famous Fender artists.” [...]
Continue reading...How Did I Miss This? Gibson Shows Off SG Select
30. March 2007
Wow… while reading through the coverage of this year’s Musikmesse show (Europe’s big music trade event), I came across mention of one of Gibson’s new 2007 models that I’d somehow completely missed until now–the SG Select. This guitar is being billed as “Gibson’s most exquisite SG,” and to that end it completely breaks away from the [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Week #10 :: SG Standard With 3 Single Coil Pickups
27. March 2007
I have to admit that Gibson caught me totally off guard with this one… the guitar maker has just released specs on this week’s installation of their Guitar Of The Week series, and it’s a unique instrument to be sure––introducing the SG Standard with 3 Single Coil Pickups! While most of the guitar’s specs will be [...]
Continue reading...Gretsch To Produce 59 Limited Edition Brian Setzer Tribute Guitars
27. March 2007
According to my extra-super top secret sources, the Gretsch Custom Shop is hard at work building a replica of Brian Setzer’s classic ‘59 Gretsch 6120––the guitar that Setzer used while rocketing to stardom with the Stray Cats. The guitar, dubbed the Limited Edition Brian Setzer Tribute, will bear the markings of a seriously worn-in Gretsch, including [...]
Continue reading...Fender Introduces Dual Humbucker Spalted Maple Custom Telecaster
26. March 2007
Fender this morning released specs on what is undoubtedly one of the sexier instruments they’ve introduced this year––the new Spalted Maple Custom Telecaster, the latest edition to Fender’s Special Edition Series. According to their website the guitar will feature a number of unique stats, not least of which is a gorgeous Spalted Maple veneer top, which [...]
Continue reading...Death By Audio Unleashes Interstellar Overdriver Supreme
23. March 2007
Death By Audio today announced the release of its latest 100% analog overdrive creation––the divinely titled Interstellar Overdriver Supreme. Apparently an evolutionary step up from the exceedingly simple Interstellar Overdriver pedal, the new Interstellar Overdriver Supreme features two independent channels: one that pumps out classic old-school overdrive tones, the other one capable of producing six different [...]
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5. April 2007
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