Husband and wife Isaac Willis and Heidi Shaulis are the team behind West Corinth Studio. Living in the hills of Orange County, Vermont, they make and sell wooden craft items and artworks. They also produce some unique guitars, like the "Eat Your Heart Out" a semi-hollow bodied electric guitar made from salvaged wood.
If you didn't make it to the London Guitar Show, don't worry. G L Wilson has posted an in depth report on Guitar Blog complete with plenty of photos.
You might recognise an guitar made by Linda Manzer or Patrick Eggle, but could you pick out Linda or Patrick in a police line-up? If you have ever wondered what your favourite luthier looks like, Alliedlutherie.com have a rogues gallery of some of the best current guitar makers.
The Six String Nation guitar is a unique custom instrument made by luthier George Rizsany. It is made from 64 items and each one represents an important aspect of Canadian history or culture.
The University of Rochester have made available online issues of S.S. Stewart’s banjo and guitar journal from the 1890s. S.S. Stewart was a banjo and mandolin manufacturer and this magazine was intended to promote his instruments though a network of dealers. Taking a closer look you find many interesting (and weird) stories from a time when there was nothing much on T.V.
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation has announced that it is has aquired the Kaman Music Corportation (KMC). KMC owns Ovation Guitars, Genz Benz Amps, Hamer guitars and is the worldwide distributor of Takamine brand acoustic guitars.
Over 2,000 guitarists will attempt to break the world record for the biggest guitar ensemble today (October 26 2007) at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Shillong, India. The stunt is being organised by the Meghalaya Tourism Development Forum as part of their Shillong autumn festival.
For the surfing guitarist Fender are selling fancy surfboard guitar hangers. They sell for $949 and you can get them in red or green. Fender claim these displays strike the perfect balance of form and function‚ that's a bit wide of the mark since the only functional part is the $9 hook!.
This video shows how Carlos Vamos incorporated an Alesis AirFX into a specially designed guitar body. The AirFX is an effects unit that connects to any line-level sound source. You control the effects unit by moving you hand over the black circular bit ( which senses the movement of your hand within an invisible 3D sphere). You can move in any direction to modify the effect number of ways.
Gibson is selling self tuning guitars. The Powertune system was developed by German engineer Chris Adams, and is being distributed by Gibson as an option on their guitars, with a price tag of $899.
You can now browse for guitar shops and services on guitar-list using Google maps. Go to the shops and services page and choose your country, next each of your country's states or provinces is a map link which will take you to a Google map.
We have added a new experimental feature to guitar-list to allow events and locations to be displayed on google maps.
Here is a link for the map of events in Jimi Hendrix's life . To come soon are maps of guitar shops and guitar brands etc.
The Austrian Mada brand have introduced a range of cool looking hemp bodied guitars, a product of several years of research and development. Their hollow bodies are a hemp fiber and cellulose composite and their maple necks are bolted on to a mahogany sustain block in the body. There is a choice of colours but no other custom options.
Private equity firm Bain Capital has just bought out Guitar Center (including the online retailer Musicians Friend) for $2.1 billion. Guitar Center is one of the leading retailers of musical instruments in the U.S. Stockholders will get $63.00 in cash for each share of Guitar Center common stock they own.
This guitar coffee table was made by self taught metal artist Timothy Adam from Grand Rapids in Michigan. It is an oversized handmade version of a Les Paul around 5 feet long, 2 feet wide and 18 inches high. Made from mild steel it has a blue tinted clear coat.