Archive for the 'Guitar Equipment' Category

Protect Your $20,000 Relic with a Great Display Case

If you are buying a $20,000 aged Blackie guitar, I doubt you are planning on playing it at gigs and jams. One thing is for sure, you aren’t going to want to stick it into a case in the back of your attic or closet. I know you’ll want to flaunt your excessive spending to [...]

Gibson Updates Website for Zakk Wylde Custom V

Gibson’s marketing department always seems to be a few steps behind, but they have finally updated the Gibson Custom website with details about the Zakk Wylde custom Flying V guitar.
There aren’t really any more details beyond what was known before, but they have release a [huge ass] 6MB 2 page PDF that displays it all [...]

What’s the deal with pre-aged replica guitars?

I am going to go on a bit of a rant right now and just toss this out there. Can someone please tell me what the appeal of a replica guitar is? Ok, so signature guitars are one thing. You want to sound as close to your guitar idol as humanly possible, so you buy [...]

Les Paul Classic Antique – Gibson Guitar of the Week #2

Gibson has released their second Guitar of the Week and man is it stunning. Gibson announced the Les Paul Classic Antique at this years NAMM Gibson has been making it for years. Look at the amazing finish on this guitar. Gibson calls it Fireburst and I think it is just freaking amazing.
Like I said the [...]

Gibson Guitar of the Week 2007

Every Tuesday every week Gibson plans to announce a new limited edition guitar that will only be available for that week. They are calling the program Gibson Guitar of the Week. A maximum of 400 of each model will be made and after that, there will be no more.
The first model to come out is [...]

NAMM 2007 Has Come and Gone

Well, it’s that time of year again and NAMM Show has come and gone…. and I missed again. It’s not like I missed the actual show, because I’m not a NAMM member, but I did miss all the fresh news about products and such.
For those of you not in the loop, NAMM used to stand [...]

Christmas Gift Idea: Chromatic Guitar Tuner

A great gift that I received for Christmas when I was just starting to play guitar was a chromatic tuner. I had taught myself how to tune the guitar by ear, but my hear wasn’t really trained that well. So even though I tuned my guitar it was generally off. A chromatic tuner was an [...]