Boutique acoustique

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...

This first-year Gibson Southern Jumbo is far more than a J-45 in fancy dress

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

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

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

IF ONLY HALF the rumors about him are true, Ozzy Osbourne should be dead. Yet, after 21 years of twisted public behavior, the man who brought you songs like “Paranoid,” “Bark at the Moon” and “Childre