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Looks like G&L shut down Sep 15, 2025. There is no official communication, the best I can find is here: https://blog.upfrontguitars.com/2025/10/september-2025-what-happened-to-gl-guitars/

https://rickturnerguitars.com/guitar/model-1/ Not a lot of info out there? How hollow is it? Are the front and back connected strongly? Does it have a piezo? Or does it feed of the pickup in the soundhole? The controls indicate multiple feeds.

Here is a good book: https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Guitar-Sounds-Secrets-Technology-ebook/dp/B09VTMHMKX?ref_=ast_author_mpb

I have too many similar looking or identical cases. I used to mark the contents with sharpie script on painter's tape, but now after a few years it's all faded and unreadable. How do you do it? First-world problem, I know.

https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/gibson-files-cancel-dimarzio-paf-double-cream-pickup-trademark/ Gibson has filed a legal request to cancel two of DiMarzio’s pickup trademarks: the term “PAF”, and the ‘Double Cream’ design of an uncovered humbucker with two cream-coloured bobbins.​

Anybody at the Philadelphia Guitar Show this weekend? I'm going Saturday. Might be nice to grab a coffee with some forumites.

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/amplitube5/ I'm interested in moving some of the rig into my Macbook. Especially cab sims. I have real amps with load emulators and need to get the cabs down. Amp sims aren't that important to me. Amplitude 5 seems to get mixed reviews. Some say it does a...

I have a black neck-through superstrat with a big scratch across the top. I thought it might be cool to have it airbrushed to a real "painting". Any ideas? Should be a little metal-ish. I'm not into skulls and gravestones. Expressions of power like lightning are more to my liking. Beauty...

What went wrong with the last Forum Design Pickup (fuglybucker)?

Looks like some models exist, but there is devil in details: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:813146 https://www.google.com/search?q=3d+printing+files+humbucker+rings&oq=3d+printing+files+humbucker+rings&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.6727j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=%22humbucker+ring%22+yeggi Out...

"Somebody", I won't name names, started a thread about what to do with $700. Well, I want a studio microphone, mainly for vocals. I honestly have no clue what to get. I did notice that many of the epic/symphonic metal bands I like actually use ribbon mics, not condensers. I guess the...

I bought this body some years ago from "Gibsondependable" on Ebay, one of those who part guitars out. It is supposed to be a 1994 AVRI body. I sold it on TGP and got it returned over concerns that it is not. Got back to my seller Gibsondependable who says they took apart a 1994 AVRI themselves...

I am selling my Stingray Classic 5 with flame maple neck and rosewood fretboard. According to to the serial it is "Guitar Center Exclusive Stingray 5 Classic Raspberry Sorbet Flamed Maple Rosewood Board, Built: May 02, 2011". It's a SR Classic 5 with the 2-band EQ. There is no trace of use...

Is this classical any good? I'm torn between brand name and the finishless looks: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Vincent-Carrillo-Cantos-Classical-Acoustic-Guitar-Case-Made-in-Spain-/311427572399?hash=item488287a2af "Vintage Vincent Carrillo Cantos Classical Acoustic Guitar