Nylon calling

After quite a few playing hours under its belt, Dave Burrluck gets the Epiphone Oxblood back into the garage for a bit of a tinker and a tune-up

Following on from the superb Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Custom instruments that recently passed through our hands, we now have three acoustics from a sextet of new historic reissues. Needless to say, expectations are high...

WHEN I AM composing and arranging music, I like to think as an orchestrator. As the guitarist, I try to represent just about everything that’s in the arrangement — the drum syncopations, horn parts, k

Tech solutions and real world tips

This month, Alex Bishop tours the studio, and considers how to plan out the perfect lutherie workspace

ANOTHER OF THE many Gibson guitars that I love (are there any that I don’t?) is the ES-350. This is a semi-hollow “jazz box” type of guitar, deeper than a ES-335 but still kind of skinny when compared