Gibson’s catalogue O (issued in either late 1924 or early 1925) stated: “Sounding boards are…
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In Part One of our feature on Eddie Lang’s guitars, luthier and guitar historian Todd…
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The Gibson L-5 went through a number of modifications before it was relaunched in 1935…
Introduced in 1912, the Gibson L-4 had a 16-inch wide body, an oval soundhole, a…
Nitro Nightmare One of the first thermoplastics, Celluloid – a material produced by combining nitrocellulose with camphor and added…