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>$987,500 for a guitar! This seems a little farfetched, yet is completely true with last year’s record sale of a custom-built guitar once played by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. What possesses someone to buy an instrument at such an exorbitant price, and how do you determine what the (more…)

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”You can play it anytime and anywhere for built-in an amplifier with a 10cm full-range speaker.” - ah you have to love when translation goes slightly wrong! This guitar also “making powerful distortion sound” which is nice. The body is cast from an aluminium alloy (AC-48) so I assume, maybe incorrectly, that it is very light and crappy sounding, especially through the built in (more…)

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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 (more…)

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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: (more…)

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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 are (more…)

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