Lichty Guitars, the shop of luthier Jay Lichty, have donated a guitar for raffle to benefit the Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF) in North Carolina, where Lichty Guitars is located. The guitar is a handmade acoustic OM-style guitar built with African Bubinga and Spruce woods. It is valued at $3500 and raffle tickets are only $10. Only 350 tickets will be sold, so your chances of … [Read more...]
Rick Land Interview
A couple of months ago, I reviewed a nice S-style guitar made by Landric Custom Guitars, LLC. Since then I've had the chance to ask Rick Land, the luthier behind Landric Custom Guitars, some questions about his guitars and how he builds them. Check out the interview below: How did you get into building guitars? I started building electric guitars to keep out of the "dog … [Read more...]
Gruhn Guitars Suffers Water Damage
Gruhn Guitars, which features a large collection of vintage instruments, survived the recent Nashville flooding only to suffer water damage due to a burst pipe on the second floor of their downtown Nashville location. Dozens of instruments sustained damage including some vintage instruments. News station WKRN reporting on the damage: "Some of these were very good … [Read more...]
Suhr Guitars Factory Tour
Mark McGuigan recently posted the video below of a tour through the Suhr Guitars factory. I've said before that I love a good factory tour video and this one doesn't disappoint. An added bonus is a backing track of Guthrie Govan's "Sevens": … [Read more...]
Jim Campilongo Signature Custom Shop ’59 Telecaster
The Fender Custom Shop has recently introduced the Jim Campilongo* Signature '59 Telecaster. This signature guitar is based on Campilongo's original '59 Telecaster. One of the unique features of the guitar is that the strings are top loaded instead of through-the-body like most modern Telecasters. Another unique feature of the guitar is the Campilongo-designed pickups that are … [Read more...]