The Carvin California Carved Top CT3, introduced in 2004, represents the culmination of over 60 years of building high-quality, USA-made guitars. It's loaded with features usually only found on guitars twice it's price, but because we sell direct to you, you can own a custom-made,...
Carvin CT3
by Dave on July 27th, 2010
We'll admit that we haven't stayed on top of the resonator guitar market as much as we should. Of course, resonator guitars have been built for over 80 years but for some reason it just hasn't felt lately like we have seen a ton of new models. But every so often we see a resonator that really attracts our attention. And then we feel like it is our duty to write about it.
And today the resonator guitar that really caught our eye is the wood-bodied National Reso-Phonic M-1. From our first views, this one looks like one that is worth a further look.
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by Dave on July 21st, 2010
Like a lot of you, I spend a lot of my time trolling for my next guitar in the used guitar market. And if there is one thing I have learned, it is that amateur photographers can be come incredible photographers when they are inspired to sell a guitar. Recently I was particularly taken by photos that were posted of a beautiful Taylor GC8 acoustic (admittedly I'm a sucker for smaller-bodied guitars) in the Acoustic Guitar Forum.
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by Dave on July 19th, 2010
Lately there has been a lot of activity on Facebook about the Taylor Baritone 8 String Acoustic-Electric guitar. We're not sure exactly why - other than the fact that this guitar has 8 strings! But we thought that this made for as good an opportunity as any to remind our readers that Fretbase is building the largest structured index of guitar videos anywhere on the planet.
The video below seems to be the one that most people think best highlights the relative strengths of the Taylor Baritone 8 String guitar but there are a lot more (well, a half a dozen) where that one came from.
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by Dave on July 13th, 2010
We take every opportunity we can get to see an all-time classic guitarist. (I do this in part because I don't know if I'm ever going to get over the fact that I never saw Johnny Cash live.) So when I had the chance to see Neil Young at the newly restored Fox Theater in Oakland, I jumped at it. If nothing else, I thought this would be a great opportunity to see which guitars and gears Neil Young is playing on this tour.
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by Dave on July 12th, 2010
Because we publish a website to help aspiring musicians choose a guitar, we get a lot of questions about guitar pricing. Because we too are always trying to figure out how to get the best deal possible (why do you think Fretbase pays its expenses using an Amazon Credit Card?), we thought it might be useful to explain some of the key terms related to guitar pricing and how we incorporate that terminology into Fretbase. We'll work our way down from the biggest numbers to the smallest. For our examples, we'll take a look at the Epiphone Casino - consistently one of the most popular guitars on Fretbase.
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