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Budda Verbmaster 112 Price: $1,800 (street) Contact: budda.com As part of its Hand-Wired series, Budda has reissued the tube-rectified Verbmaster 1x12 combo that differs from similarly powered...

ZT Amplifiers Lunchbox Junior Price: $149 (street) Info: www.ztamplifiers.com. ZT Amplifiers is known for producing compact amps that generate sounds which defy their size. Their latest, the...

An amp maker at the very heart of the British guitar boom of the late ’50s and early ’60s, Selmer was, for a time,...

In the early days of boutique-amp building, there were but a few contenders on the scene. One of the strongest amplifiers in those days...

Doug Doppler recalls how, at age five, his first swimming lesson fell on the same day as his first guitar lesson. Beyond mere coincidence,...

In the ’60s, Gibson strived mightily to meet the demands of players of all levels while also working to maintain its image as industry...

Cimarron Guitars has being making custom instruments since 1978 in the dry, mild climate of southwest Colorado. The company’s Model P guitar gets its name...

In addition to several significant shifts in style and presentation, for Fender, the transition of the late 1950s into the early ’60s represented a...

For five decades after he built his first guitar amp in 1952, Jim Frenzel designed tube and solidstate equipment for the military, FAA, and...

Xaviere is a company that imports its guitars from China, sets them up in its Massachusetts shop, then sells direct. The company’s XV-JT90 Offset Hybrid...