The Romanian Hora brand has been around since communist times in 1951. As well as producing numerous orchestral stringed instruments Hora make classical, acoustic and electric guitars. Hora produce budget instruments, the top of the range electric sells for around $270 (in 2008).
Have you every wanted to make your own guitar but have been put off by your lack of wood working skills? A Zoybar could be the solution. It is a modular guitar construction system that simply bolts together.
The Zoybar is a collaborative project launched in 2008 by industrial designer Ziv Bar Ilan. The aim to create a comfortable and and playable instrument that was easy to assemble but efficient to manufacture in small numbers.
Jonathan Law established Feline Guitars in 1997 and continues to produce high quality guitars in small numbers. A regular at the UK guitar shows, Jonathan also specialises in guitar repairs, guitar upgrades and improvements. Look out for the Feline promotional artwork by artist Vince Ray.
This project is a detailed guide on how to re-wire a vintage Fender Mustang
Andy Crockett began his professional career as a guitar maker in 1975. He is best known for his range of JC1 archtops, made to a design by his long time friend and guitarist Jon Case (they built their first guitar together in 1964). The JC1 is influenced by the D’Angelico tradition, and is used by Jazz players like Jim Mullen. Custom options are available.
The Beartones series of guitars are handmade by UK builder Robin Day, as part of the Rossli Guitar Company. Beartones are semi-hollow body guitars based loosely on the Telecaster thinline de-luxe but with a Gibson neck profile and unsual half-slotted headstocks.
The Rossli Guitar Company is an English guitar brand operating in Kent, producing small numbers of instruments. Rossli has been associated at various times with luthiers Robin Day and Andy Crockett. Limited information suggests Rossli guitars were being made in the early 1980s, so the brand predates this period.
Highland Guitar Company is a brand used for a range of Far-Eastern manufactured acoustic, electro-acoustic and electric semi-acoustic guitars. Prices range from mid $200’s for an entry level acoustic to the mid $800’s for a top of the line archtop. They use exotic hardwoods, Grover tuning gears and Fishman pre-amps. All the guitars are strung with Elixir® strings.
The GS was Ovation's take on the Fender stratocaster. By the time this model was made Ovation had outsourced the production of bodies and necks to Samick in Korea, but the final assembly was done in the USA.
Following the demise of the Viper and Breadwinner models in the early 1980s Ovation was looking for a new direction for its solid body guitars. They decided to market three models as the HardBody series: the GP and GS guitars and the UB bass. The bodies and necks were made in Korea by Samick, and the guitars assembled in the USA. By all accounts these were well made instruments which failed to find popularity.
This was my first electric guitar. Before this I played a nylon stringed Spanish guitar, I felt the need to switch to something cooler. So it was in the spring of 1987 that I walked the two miles to Bob's music shop, on Carmarthen Road at the crossroads in Fforestfach, Swansea.
The Wilson SA 112 was the 12 string model from the SA series. It was essentially the same as the SAF 2 and SAT 2. Aside from the extra six strings, the differences were in the 1.5 inch longer headstock and the non-Schaller machine heads.
