Posts Tagged ‘humbucker’

Gibson Byrdland

The Gibson Byrdland is a short scale, hollow body, electric guitar. The scale length is 23 1/2 inches, an inch and a quarter underneath the standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. It was developed in the mid-1950’s by Gibson’s legendary president in that era, Ted McCarty, in conjunction with jazz guitarists, Billy Byrd [...]

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Fender Jag-Stang

The Fender Jag-Stang, as the name implies, is a blending of the Fender Jaguar and Fender Mustang electric guitars. The idea for the guitar came from Kurt Cobain, lead singer and guitarist for Nirvana. Cobain presented his idea to Fender and they created two prototypes, one in Sonic Blue and the other in Fiesta Red, [...]

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