Ohhhh yeahhhh! As Gibson themselves put it in 1970, the 1958-1960 sunburst Les Paul Standard design really was the “Daddy of 'em all”. ...

THE CONTENDERS A vintage Gibson ES-355 . A lavish, high-spend product, made in 1972, and sitting at the top end of Gibson’s range of thi...

Yesterday, I was discussing tight manufacturing budgets on low-priced 1970s guitars . Today I want to stay with that theme, but delve even...

Whether or not punk rock’s guitar style had a definite beginning is open to lively debate. And for good reason. The punk genre might have ...

It’s a really good question. Why does a budget guitar cost so little, whilst a range-topper, which may well ostensibly look the same, cost s...

The 1953 style of Les Paul Model, with P90 pickups and a stud bridge/tailpiece. Okay, so it’s only ‘ probably didn’t know’, but these fa...

Since the 1980s, it’s been possible to walk into a guitar shop and come out with pretty much any type of guitar pickup you could imagine....

Quite recently, I was searching the web for my usual diet of unimportant and shallow snippets of information, when I noticed the £hundreds...

By the mid ‘eighties I’d seen and heard a heck of a lot of Les Pauls – mostly on the local live music scene, and probably as many copies as ...

During the 1951 to 1961 period, the Gibson ES-335 had the feature of dot position markers on the fretboard - hence its 'Dot' nickn...

I begin this review of the Gibson Sonex 180 Deluxe with a brief home made demo I did with the guitar back in 1987. The Sonex as used was...

Here’s a piece of rock & roll history which now approaches the age of forty, and has certainly worn a lot better than I have over the ye...

Through the latter part of the 1980s I vowed that I’d never buy a Gibson Les Paul . I’d borrowed a Tokai Love Rock (Les Paul copy) for a s...

Gibson’s Les Paul Classic was a variation on the Standard model which so many influential guitarists picked up on in the 1960s. If you’re...

In 1966, Gibson switched the Les Paul shaped Melody Maker design for a completely new guitar. Still called the Melody Maker, the new des...

At the mention of an original ’60s Epiphone Casino , some guitarists will immediately think Beatles, Stones, Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller… ...

When I bought this Gibson ES345 semi over two decades ago, it was the most expensive guitar I’d ever owned, and I had to borrow a fair am...