Monthly Archives: November 2007

If you like your guitars a bit on the retro side, you’ll probably like what Italia Guitars have to offer. Pictured left is the Italia Mondial Classic which features a Korina body, hard Maple neck with a Rosewood fretboard, Graphite nut and a Tune’o’matic bridge. Aside from the 2 Wilkinson humbuckers the guitar also featuresContinue Reading

I just found this Vintage Silvertone from 1957-58. This instrument is actually for sale for $1449 and according to the 1957 Sears catalogue has “Curly maple top and back. Mahogany sides. Hand-polished finish. 2 built-in pickups. Volume, tone control. 3-way selector switch”. It also has a glued-on, fully bound rosewood fretboard, 19 frets. It hasContinue Reading

Washburn have just announced the release of the Joe Trohman Idol series guitar, Fall Out Boy’s lead guitarist worked closely with Washburn to create a killer guitar that utilizes dual humbuckers and Voice Contour Control to allow for a massive array of sounds. In his own words: “I’m a guitar player, and I’m obsessed withContinue Reading

This is the current window display at the Ben Sherman shop in Melbourne. There are actually even more guitars but I cropped them out so hows about you buy a ticket to Australia and come and check it out yourself? No? You tight buggers alright then, I’ll give you some linkage instead. Ben Sherman areContinue Reading

Bored of hanging Moose heads on your wall? Well why not invest in a mechanical one that has a guitar body as a plaque… “I'm afraid I don't have video for this one so you will have to imagine the jaw moving up and down when the button on the the right is pressed. Materials:Continue Reading

Let me introduce to you Kevin Nolan, a long time ago I went to Kidderminster College to do a performing arts course and my music A level. While I was there I had the great pleasure of playing, acting alongside and generally acting like a silly bugger with Kev. At the time he wielded aContinue Reading

I love the story behind this guitar: “A 1973 Fender Telecaster was run over by a car. It broke the body into several pieces, and severed it from the neck. I bought it as a basket case. Replace the body with an ash body from the Warmath company. I don’t know if the neck isContinue Reading

A Kramer Superman of course! The guitar was made by Chris Woods and uses an old school Kramer Focus neck, Original Floyd Rose Trem, a DiMarzio Fred humbucker and is signed by Lois Lane herself Margo Kidde. Chris had this to say: “I had been kicking the idea of a Superman guitar around for aContinue Reading

If you have an old bike that you don’t use anymore, actually bugger it, if you have a new bike and you feel like wrecking it in the name of music why not do what this guy has done and turn it into a guitar! The frame is a 1997 Trek Y-22 like this one,Continue Reading

You would be forgiven for thinking looking at this guitar that is an Alembic, it has that kind of feel to it but it is in fact a Ballurio Artist. This guitar is “handcrafted of a soft Maple or Basswood tone core sandwiched between a Black Walnut back and highly-figured Black Walnut top with aContinue Reading