Takamine Solid Body Guitars As far as Takamine is concerned, whether their foray into the solid body market was indeed due to sluggish acoustic sales or an opportunistic move on this new category of...
Rickenbacker 331 Light Show Based on the same body style as the Rickenbacker 330 which debuted in 1958, the Ricky 331 had some literal Fireglo. Under the plexiglass top exists a set of multi-colored...
Washburn Paul Reed Smith Copy Guitar Two years later in 1987, a couple of very similar looking guitars were introduced by Washburn. The RS-8V and RS-10V. The set-neck and high quality build of these guitars have...
Hamamatsu Japan - Tokai Love Rock In the right circle of guitar friends, the city of Hamamatsu, Japan could be considered a holy grail of modern musical instrument manufacturing. It's the home of Yamaha, Tokai, Roland,...
Fender Katana Dealers were anxious for a more aggressive Fender guitar that rivaled the likes of Jackson, BC Rich, and Charvel. They wanted something pointy. Plus Fender needed inventory, almost any inventory...
Charlie Watkins and WEM Both lines of business took off, but their bread and butter was amps, and after firmly establishing WEM as an amplifier company the next focus was building guitars. Watkins wanted...
