The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer ...

Perhaps any good electric guitar could do the job, as long as it wasn’t fitted ... You could throw a dart at the D’Angelico hollowbody catalogue and come up trumps with a top-quality archtop for jazz.

What made his archtop guitars so sought after were their dynamic range and a broad tonal color. At a time when acoustic guitars were losing out to electric and mass-produced ones, D'Aquisto tried ...

But the AREOS-D technology goes much further in widening the sonic horizons of the VGA-5TD beyond archtop electric guitar expectations. The guitar features both magnetic and piezo pickups and selector ...

Thorogood recounts how he originally opted for a now-discontinued hollowbody – with a little inspiration from the Beatles and ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. Les Paul's electric guitars remain iconic examples of the instrument, for both their form and function. After Paul's death in 2009, Slash ...

In the late 1950s, Gibson was in the last throes of trying to make its flagship Les Paul solidbody electric ... guitars of all time. But the company must have felt confident about the semihollow ...

“The thing that determines the (archtop) sound is more the geometry ... Deckebach mainly builds electric guitars, and also some basses, averaging four to six annually. He even remembers the ...