Washburn Extended Cutaway For “show off and tell” day at school Washburn went all out to display the extra access to the highest frets by producing three models: an EC26, EC29, and EC36. ...
Jackson Schon Guitar - What a Journey In 1985 Neal Schon personally commissioned and financed his own signature guitar through Jackson. One of his artistic touches beyond the original body style was the Testarossa tailpiece (see Carlisi’s...
Baby Boomer Bloomer John’s earliest musical memories were as a young boy, laying on the floor, listening to his mom sing and play honky tonk piano in his childhood home in Parkersburg, WV....
Paul Reed Smith - The Original Dragon Two seminal moments occurred in college that made him determined to become a professional guitar builder. The first was gaining notoriety as a guitar tech by repairing Danny Gatton’s Les...
Epiphone Olympics In 1964 Epiphone kept the Olympic naming convention, but introduced a radically different body style. However, the body style wasn't new and first appeared in 1958 as the Coronet, Crestwood, and...
Early Ibanez Artists The Bob Weir Standard and Randy Scruggs. Bob Weir was the first Ibanez endorsed artist with his model 2680 in 1975. Ibanez followed-up signature models for George Benson in 1977 and...