Alive! Guitar Revived
Gifted to Peter Frampton after a 1970 Humble Pie concert at Fillmore West in San Francisco, for years, this ’54 Les Paul Custom made...
Arlen Roth
By any measure, Arlen Roth’s recent spate of creativity would be impressive. It began with his solo acoustic CD, Drive It Home, in 2001,...
The Original ES-150
The story of the ES-150, Gibson’s first commercially successful electric guitar, has been told many times, and its association with legendary jazz pioneer Charlie...
Pieces of a Prototype
If you were a guitar – particularly one with a natural or translucent finish – your “fingerprint” would be the grain of the wood...
Rickenbacker 481
It’s hard to imagine an instrument other than guitar that has undergone more innovation through its modern history. Perhaps we do an injustice to...
Gibson’s 1966-’70 Flying V
Body is two-piece mahogany.
Pickguard mounts to body with 13 screws.
Pickups are patent-number humbuckers with chrome-plated covers.
Tune-O-Matic bridge with Gibson’s basic...
Fender Coronado XII Wildwood
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yea, baby! Okay, to be honest, there’s no real evidence that this 1967 Fender Coronado XII Wildwood was...
Ken Fischer
Although by most estimates he produced fewer than 100 Trainwreck amps, Ken Fischer – tech, designer, and amp-maker – will be remembered as one...
Tom Petersson
It’s been a long time comin’... Like his longtime bandmate, Rick Nielsen, Cheap Trick bassist/songwriter Tom Petersson collects classic stringed instruments. Now a resident...
The Gibson ES-5
Gibson, like all American guitarmakers, had to shut down electric guitar production for three years during World War II. But when production resumed in...