Fretboard Summit Here's a breakdown of my experience at the Fretboard Summit: Some crazy expensive guitars, Tommy Emmanuel, Bob Taylor, Paul Hamer, and enough guitarheads to light up Chicago!
Roy Buchanan Bluesmaster When one of your first custom built guitars goes to Roy Buchanan you are probably on the right track. That was the story with brothers Roger & John Fritz. The two...
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 weren’t 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...
