Yearly Archives

2011

Gibson USA L6S

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One of the more intriguing new models to emanate from Gibson in the mid 1970s, the L6S was favored by Carlos Santana and Rich Williams of Kansas, along with several other notable players of the day, and quickly proved its power born from a marriage of Gibson tradition and a sleek, efficient, modern design ethos. To bring all that toneful goodness and succulent playability back to the table, Gibson USA introduces the newly reissued L6S, a performance tool that’s still primed to carry today’s rock, blues, and fusion guitarist wherever he or she wants to go.
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Epiphone Casino 1961 50th Anniversary Royal Tan

Epiphone Casino 1961 50th Anniversary

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Epiphone brings back the first Casino in celebration of it’s 50th anniversary – the “1961” Casino. The new 1961 Anniversary Casino has many features that were discontinued after the first year of production. The result is a classic that will be both familiar and totally new even to Casino lovers like Paul McCartney, Paul Weller, Noel Gallagher and Keith Richards.
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Fender Modern Player Telecaster Thinline Deluxe

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The Modern Player Telecaster® Thinline Deluxe casts an already distinctive classic Telecaster model in a whole new light with a full-throated pair of single-coil Modern Player MP-90 pickups. Other features include a mahogany body, C-shaped maple neck, maple fretboard with 9.5” radius and 22 medium jumbo frets, three-way toggle pickup switching, three-ply pickguard (parchment on Sunburst model; black-white-black on other models), four skirted amp knobs (two volume, two tone), vintage-style Stratocaster® string-through-body six-saddle hard-tail bridge, vintage-style tuners and nickel/chrome hardware. Available in Three-color Sunburst and Black Transparent.
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Ibanez Halberd XH300

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The HALBERD’s body design is inspired by the flow of curves. Not only beautifully lined, the body is also functional. It offers easy access to high frets, a sleek, body-fitting back contour, and great balance, all which lead to excellent playing comfort. The original CAP active pickups in both neck and bridge positions create massive, full-bodied tone. Among all the X-series models, the HALBERD is suited to a broad range of music due to its appearance and hard-tail bridge/tailpiece. Available colors are “LUNA SHADOW (LSH)” and “MARS SHADOW (MSH)”, which highlight the beautiful contrast between the body outline and contour
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Scott Walker Phantom

Scott Walker Phantom

By 2011, New Release 6 Comments
Steve Kimock owns two guitars built by the late legendary builder Steve Cripe (1953-1996). Besides rarity, these guitars were the last electrics Jerry Garcia used. Scott Walker paid tribute to what was one of Mr Cripe’s most elegant designs. The result is a combination of features that accentuate the unusual wood choices leading to amazing sustain, resonance and tone.
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Michael Kelly Hex Deluxe

Michael Kelly Hex Deluxe

By 2011, New Release One Comment
The Hex Deluxe is Michael Kelly’s top of the line “flat top” guitar. The Michael Kelly Hex Deluxe electric guitar is equipped with an Original Floyd Rose® tremolo, Grover® tuners and EMG active pickups and a fast and flat neck profile, this stage ready axe is ready to dominate!
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Schecter Blackjack ATX Solo 6

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Schecter’s Blackjack ATX Solo 6 Electric Guitar provides the look feel and sound that compliments the hardest, heaviest and most sinister players out there. Featuring a carved mahogany body, 3-piece mahogany neck and Schecter’s Ultra-access neck joint provides unmatched playability while the Seymour Duncan Active Black Out humbuckers with a built-in differential preamp and balanced inputs to reduce noise.
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Eastwood Airline 1P

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AIRLINE delivers two new Single Pickup Models – 1P DLX and the ’59 Custom. The original Airline’s were made of Res-O-Glas and had a floating bridge. Eastwood has upgraded the design to a tone-chambered mahogany body / fixed bridge and reduced the signal path to a single pickup/volume control, allowing for crystal clear roll off tones to full on power crunch.
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Squier Joe Trohman Telecaster

Squier Joe Trohman Telecaster

By 2011, Artist Signature Models, New Release No Comments
Squier and guitarist Joe Trohman (the Damned Things/Fall Out Boy) have teamed up to create an unusual new take on the venerable early-’70s Fender® Telecaster Deluxe. Features include an alder body, C-shaped maple neck, large 1968-style Stratocaster® headstock with Trohman’s signature on the back, rosewood fingerboard with 12” radius and 22 jumbo frets, two open-coil humbucking pickups (neck and bridge), single-coil Stratocaster® middle pickup, upper bout kill switch, three-ply black-white-black pickguard, vintage-style six-saddle strings-through-body hardtail bridge, chrome hardware, die-cast tuners and Two-color Sunburst finish.
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G&L Ascari GTS

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G&L’s done something special: We’ve created an instrument that’s steeped in guitar history yet strikingly new – The Ascari, the newest member of G&L’s Tribute Series. It was inspired by a recently uncovered prototype drawing done three decades ago by G&L co-founder George Fullerton, representing Leo Fender’s vision for G&L’s first 24¾” scale, three-tuners-to-a-side guitar. It was designed jointly by G&L’s longtime VP of engineering, Paul Gagon, and his close friend and former collaborator, Grover Jackson, founder of Jackson Guitars. Its DNA is full of rock guitar history.
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