Two of the products introduced at Summer NAMM show are 2 guitars that commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Surfing with the Alien album release, the Ibanez JS20 20th Anniversary Joe Satriani Guitars. This 2 models look very similar, and very cool by the way, but are very different, one of them is an affordable [...]

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From Canada like a cool blast come two new electric guitars with some refreshingly independent features and approaches to construction.
Godin’s Radiator is a simple yet different take on what a budget instrument can offer, particularly in the looks department. In addition to that bigger-than-yours pearloid pickguard, there are pearloid-buttoned enclosed tuners and pearl-capped Tele-style chrome [...]

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Kronodale Guitars don’t seem to make anything but Crazy Guitar Designs so they are a perfect fit for Guitar Noize! Aside from the Recycled G pictured left, they also produce the 2P and One Dollar guitars with 3-dimensional opened body shape available in a variety of finishes. Kronodale have taken consumer patterns and emblems (Recycled [...]

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In 1970, Gary Kramer co-founded Kramer Guitars with his friend Dennis Berardi. Originally, Kramer started out making Aluminum neck guitars. By 1981 he abandoned the idea to follow Charvel’s trend with wooden neck guitars, which were also the first guitar company to offer Original Floyd Rose locking tremolo systems on their production guitars. Kramer began [...]

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If you are looking for a bit of inspiration to help you get out of a rut, or to help you write better riffs then you should definitely check out Dave Weiner’s YouTube channel ’Riff Of The Week‘.
Dave Weiner is a Favored Nations artist, he released “Shove The Sun Aside” back in 2004 and is [...]

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Whilst reading my daily guitar rss feeds I came across a very interesting guitar over at Thumbrella by Italian guitar company Manne Guitars established in 1987 by Andrea Ballarin in Schio, in northeastern Italy. Manne guitars’ main shape is quite unique just check out the Taos to see what I mean. Well it turns out [...]

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I just came across this link over at Boing Boing to a Flickr Pool of hand made guitar picks. I thought this was a really cool idea although I’m not sure about cardboard picks! This person, sorry I don’t know a name just the Flickr username Aud1073cH, has actually used bits of old laptops, old [...]

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Albert Lee is the most successful English Country Music guitarist in history, with a string of awards including a Grammy and more album releases than you can shake a stick at! Albert has appeared with everyone from the late great Bo Diddley, to Eric Clapton to Dolly Parton. Albert was born in 1943 in Leominster, [...]

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On that fateful day when your manger finally says, “Hit the road, Jack,” will you be prepared? Just in case the answer is “No,” Gear-Monkey has enlisted a blue ribbon panel of street-smart rockers to recount their bloodiest war stories and tell you how to dodge the slings and arrows of outrageous touring. Don’t say [...]

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Duane Allman’s future looked blindingly bright in the fall of October 1971. The Allman Brothers Band had just seen the three years of hardcore touring pay off in fashion. Their third release, the live double album At Filmore East, had gone Gold, and both the band and Duane were being hailed as rock visionaries. Sessions [...]

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