Tag: Vintage
DIY Workshop: Converting a 1989 Greco into a 1954-style Les Paul...
An eight-part series documenting a worn single-cut’s journey to becoming a relic’ed Goldtop.
Watch: New documentary unearths what could be Buddy Holly’s long-lost Strat
The mythical 1954 Fender Stratocaster may have been discovered Down Under.
This 1957 Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster is a blues and country machine
The Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster is regarded as the first commercially available electric guitar with three pickups, and this example from 1957 is loaded with original PAFs.
Rare Guitars: Joe Bonamassa’s 1951 Nocaster and 1952 Telecaster
The blues maestro owns a pair of blonde beauties that sport neck humbuckers and a lot of battle scars.
Rare Guitars: Brian Ray’s ’65 Fender Electric XII
Feast your eyes on these immaculate 12-strings...
Rare Guitars: Brian Ray’s Happy Days ’58 Gibson TV Junior
This gorgeous single-pickup guitar made an appearance on the TV show, Happy Days.
Gibson’s ES-295 kickstarted rock ’n’ roll, and this 1953 specimen is...
The ES-295 is one of the most iconic Gibson models of the 1950s. It probably would have earned that accolade on looks alone, but when a Tennessee picker used one to lay down some tracks with a Tupelo truck driver, the result was rock ’n’ roll history. Check out this stellar example from way back in ’53…
Seven rare vintage guitars in Jay Edema and David McArthur’s collection
You've heard about their collection at large, now learn about the stories behind some of their favourite guitars.
In Pictures: Highlights from Musikmesse 2019
Vintage Gibsons, celebrity gear, new modelling tech and more.
Jay Edema and David McArthur’s guitar collection is as unusual as...
Jay Edema and David McArthur have amassed a collection of guitars – numbering in the hundreds – that will make your eyes water. But their infatuation with all things strung goes way beyond simple hoarding or speculation.