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Taylor have announced a, specially designed, Serj Tankian signature model of their T5 electro/acoustic hybrid.
Based on the T5-C, the STSM-T5 has been tweaked using Tankian’s input to this sleek beast.
It features a thinline body of sapele with a maple top. the top features two, fancy-looking f-holes (which are unbound). The body is finished in a (very) gloss black and is bound in (very) bright red.
The same red binding edges the fingerboard and the headstock. The red theme is also carried into the inlays which feature a red ‘energy wheel’ design …
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Epiphone have announced a series of clinics, for January, in the UK and Ireland. There, you can see (ahem) Doctor Epiphone, and he’ll tell you a number of interesting things about Epiphone.
More importantly though, you might get some free swag – T-shirts, baseball caps and whatnot. You might also win a guitar.
The dates and venues are below. Maybe there’s a store near you…
January 19th – Hard Rock Cafe – Edinburgh, Scotland
January 20th – Dawson’s Music – Liverpool, England
January 21st – GigGear Ltd. – Harlow, England
January 22nd – Digital Village – …
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Gretsch are doing a, very limited, run of fifty instruments based on Eddie Cochran’s guitar.
The famous, modified Gretsch 6120 played by Cochran and now residing in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame was the template for some seriously intricate measuring by Gretsch Custom Shop master luthier Stephen Stern. Stern checked everything that could be checked on Cochran’s guitar and then set about building an exact replica.
The result is the Gretsch Custom Shop G6160EC.
This instrument’s features include a bound laminated maple body and arched top, a specially shaped three-piece maple/walnut/maple …
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Squier have announced the introduction of two new versions of classic Telecaster guitars.
Say hello to the Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster Custom and the Classic Vibe Telecaster Thinline guitars. Both are based on classic Tele designs from the ’60’s.
The Classic Vibe Thinline has a semi-hollow body, as you’d expect, but it’s made from mahogany . The tinted lacuqer finish looks great and we’ve always loved the thinline pickguard – looks cool as far as we’re concerned – and this one is a snazzy mint green.
The Thinline has a maple neck with …
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Jimmy Page has helped the Royal Mail launch a new range of postage stamps.
The ten stamps depict classic album covers spanning the last forty years.
Royal Mail’s head of special stamps Julietta Edgar said: “For decades the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic artists in the world, and this issue celebrates this unique art form and some of its greatest examples. We hope customers will enjoy the opportunity to send or collect these classic album designs in their smallest format yet – as miniature …
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They can put a man on the moon but you still need to tune your guitar one string at a time. What’s with that? What is this, the middle-ages?
Polyphonic tuning, or sounding each string simultaneously so you can easily identify if a particular string – or strings – is out of tune would make life much easier than having to check each, one at a time.
It’s not that easy though. Isolating each string amongst the harmonic overtones of the others isn’t easy to do. Until now… Possibly.
This Danish software engineer …
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Fender have announced details of the 2010 American Special series of instruments. Fender claim these are built ‘by the people, for the people’ and that they are ‘guitars for the times’.
US-built, the series, so far, includes the American Special Telecaster, Stratocaster and Stratocaster HSS. They are touted as highly-affordable guitars within the reach of an entire spectrum of players that share many features with the Highway One and American Standard instruments.
All American Specials have alder bodies finished in urethane and buffed to a gloss. All share a 9.5″-radius, maple neck …
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In the wake of our last couple of articles (Chili Peppers Klinghoffer Confusion and Frusciante Quits Chili Peppers), not to mention the many, many stories on the internet, I thought it might be an idea to take a moment just to look at what John Frusciante himself had to say on his leaving the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I haven’t seen this reported as much as I assumed it would be, which doesn’t really seem fair.
A couple of weeks back, when the story was just breaking, Frusciante released the following …
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Just a short post. Given the season, I just wanted to say a giant ‘thank you’ to all of you who have popped by over the last few months to read these ramblings. An even more massive ‘thanks’ to those who have subscribed to our news feed or followed us on Twitter. It is all very much appreciated.
Posting may be a little sporadic over the holiday period as I gorge myself on rich food and many beers but there’s a good chance something will slip through in occasional moments of …
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Released today, Christmas Day, exclusively in Japan, is this handsome new Epiphone.
This is the Tak Matsumoto Signature DC Custom. Tak is one of Japan’s leading guitarists and he’s managed to wangle this signature model from Epiphone.
It’s based on the popular model from Gibson’s Custom Shop and is a bit special.
Its a double-cut mahogany body with a glued-in mahogany neck. The neck joint is of the long-tenon type which gives excellent neck/body coupling and contributes to a great tone and longer sustain. The body is bound in multi-ply (w/b/w/b/w/b/w if you …
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