The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer like Gibson. The winds of change would soon blow through the company’s ...

Gibson had shifted from Orville’s idiosyncratic creations to produce reliable models such as the L-4 archtop (1912) and the ...

I n the late 1950s, Gibson was in the last throes of trying to make its flagship Les Paul solidbody electric guitar fly in a skeptical market. Adding a luscious sunburst finish in 1958 to the ...

The 75-year-old – who’s not sure how he gets his sound – almost gave up playing when Gibson discontinued the ES-125. Now he ...

With so much history carried by these guitars that helped shaped music from 1922 Gibson L-5 onwards, it's a good time to take stock with ten of many potential tonal archtop highlights. 1. D-Natural ...

“Pattie,” A 1913 Gibson Style O Archtop Guitar Once Owned by Both Eric Clapton and George Harrison, Can Be Yours—for $1 Million. by Nick Stockton May 15, 2025, 4:31 pm.

Gibson Brands, the iconic guitar manufacturer, is threatening to take legal action against the company behind Trump Guitars over alleged trademark infringement. The 120-year-old maker of historic ...

If nothing else good came out of 2020, we can say that we at least have “Instrument of the People” — some 1967-era footage of Gibson Guitars’ “craftory”, which w… ...

Gibson has handed a cease and desist notice to Trump Guitars, a brand touting an endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump, for "infringing upon Gibson’s exclusive trademarks, particularly ...

A century-old guitar with a storied history has been listed for sale on Reverb with an asking price of $949,999. The 1913 Gibson Style O Acoustic Archtop, dubbed “Pattie,” was played and owned ...

A Carl Barney archtop guitar costs between $5,000 and $7,000; a Carl Barney classical guitar costs between $3,500 and $5,000. "I know people who make guitars that sell for $20,000," he said.

UPDATE 11/25: Gibson has confirmed to Guitar World that it has issued a cease and desist order to Trump Guitars owner 16 Creative over the use of its single-cut electric guitar model, “as the ...