The First Monkey Grip: Teisco T-60 Appearing in 1960 the Teisco T-60 featured a hand carved body, set-neck, and beastly hand carved headstock. The Jazzmaster shape and 3-saddle bridge may borrow quite a bit from Fender, but...
Fender FOMO The Coronado was an odd-duck, a full hollow body with a bolt-on neck instead of a set neck, and sporting DeArmond pickups. There were issues right out of the gate...
Ibanez Roadster to Roadstar Ibanez released their first offset double cut guitars that werenât straight-up Strat copies. The two models were the Roadster 100 and 300, and arguably the main differentiators from a Strat...
Gretsch Astro Jet Jimmie was a well accomplished guitar player and demo-guy for Gretsch, traveling around the country promoting Gretsch guitars to dealers and media outlets. He was also an astute marketer and...
How The Fender Stratocaster Lost The Super Strat Race The exploratory Heartfield badge was also intended to be a beta testing line-up, to provide an opportunity for dealer and consumer feedback and try to create a different flavor of...
Buck Owens Red White and Blue Buck considered himself a âsuper patriotâ, but rather than alienate some of his fanbase during a highly contentious, and flag burning political era, he chose to make his statement without...
