mandolins and banjos the company produces. Sixty to ninety craftory-operating days later, a Gibson guitar is considered complete and ready for sale. On each axe, the final coat of lacquer is ...

Around 1880, Orville Gibson moved from ... was on mandolins and then banjos, for a time the most popular stringed instruments. Lloyd Loar’s Master Series L-5 guitar of 1922 defined the ...

The guitar was an important transitional build as it tampered with the model designed to rival the Stratocaster ...

Enthusiasts of vintage electric guitars might well lay an egg at ... as opposed to the reversed six-in-line headstock with banjo tuners more commonly found on the Firebird. For this new 2025 model, ...