Dealer, private sale or online auction? In the past, used instruments were purchased from a…
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In Part One of our feature on Eddie Lang’s guitars, luthier and guitar historian Todd…
Musician and luthier Todd Cambio established Fraulini Guitars (https://fraulini.com) to offer traditional performers’ instruments modelled…
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…
“The 1941 L-5 guitar pictured below (Serial Number 97291) was purchased at the Southern California…
By George Gruhn and Joe Spann Today the Gibson L-5 guitar and F-5 mandolin are…
How many fakes are out there? British artist John Myatt created around 200 forged paintings…