The big-bodied archtop is a notorious powerhouse but its return – even at a hair under eight grand – has us tempted. Here's ...

Lloyd Loar’s Master Series L-5 guitar of 1922 defined the contemporary archtop, apparently more ... its first foray into electric instruments. The ES-150 followed late in ’36, marking the ...

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 ...