An electric guitar can be a rewarding woodworking project that doesn’t require a bunch of experience. Compared to an acoustic guitar, whose body construction and materials vastly affect its ...

Charles Coaxes Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” from One Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar If the original was tugged between lust and longing, Charles’s version shimmers off into the latter.

We’ll start answering these questions by debunking a common misconception. Many people think that Les Paul was the inventor of the electric guitar, but he wasn’t. The credit for this goes to ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 18: A solid-body Gibson Les Paul Standard 1959 electric guitar (reserve price £300,000-500,000) owned and used by musician Mark Knopfler is seen at a media event to ...

The hollow-body and semi-hollow electric guitar types sound louder than a solid-body guitar when strummed without an amp. However, they're still not loud enough for most performance settings.

Thanks to the instrument’s rich history, decades of design and development, and the prevalence of high-quality CNC machining, it’s never been easier to find an electric guitar under $500 ...

50 years after Bob Dylan debuted his electric sound at the Newport Folk Festival, check out eight electric guitar-related facts to consider the next time you plug in.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- Theodore M. "Ted" McCarty, 91, a key figure in the development of the electric guitar and former president of Gibson Guitar Co., died here April 1. The cause of death was not ...

By Ian S. Port Illustrated. 340 pp. Scribner. $28. Like a lot of paradigm-shifting inventions, the solid-body electric guitar seems inevitable in hindsight.

Half electric, half acoustic, fully badass.It’s rare today to find a guitar with totally unique functionality and design, especially one that isn’t a cheesy novelty. Fender is really offering ...

Paul was "instrumental" in the invention of the solid-body electric guitar. Let's celebrate his birthday with your favorite electric guitar instrumentals. We'll spin them after 9 a.m.