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Knaggs Guitars and Steve Stevens

Knaggs Guitars and Steve Stevens

Posted June 27, 2012 at 10:48 am | No comments

In time for Billy Idol’s 2012 tour, Grammy-Award winning guitar player and long time collaborator Steve Stevens received his first Knaggs guitar.

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PRS Guitars Offers New “Stripped” 58 Model  Straightforward Tone in a No-Nonsense Package

PRS Guitars Offers New “Stripped” 58 Model Straightforward Tone in a No-Nonsense Package

Posted June 6, 2012 at 2:22 pm | No comments

Originally offered as a limited run for Experience PRS 2011, the “Stripped” 58 is now available as part of Paul Reed Smith Guitars’ Core lineup. The “Stripped” 58 is a no-frills take on the company’s popular SC 58 model, which won the Musikmeese International Press Award (mipa) for “Best Electric Guitar 2011/2012” earlier this year, and maintains that instrument’s classic, resonant voice that is eminently recordable and gig ready.

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C.F. Martin & Co. Introduces OM Jeff Daniels Custom Artist Edition

C.F. Martin & Co. Introduces OM Jeff Daniels Custom Artist Edition

Posted June 4, 2012 at 11:07 am | No comments

C. F. Martin & Co. is pleased to introduce a very special Custom Artist Edition Guitar, the OM Jeff Daniels, designed in collaboration with the award-winning film and stage actor who next stars in the lead role in Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO series “The Newsroom.”

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Knaggs Guitars on E-Street

Knaggs Guitars on E-Street

Posted April 27, 2012 at 2:54 pm | No comments

Nils Lofgren, currently on tour with the E-Street Band, received his Knaggs Severn T2 in Golden Natural on Monday, April 9 and apparently fell in love with it at first sight, using the guitar the same night at their show at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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PRS Core Line of Amplifiers Receive Distinctive Figured Maple Fascias

PRS Core Line of Amplifiers Receive Distinctive Figured Maple Fascias

Posted April 24, 2012 at 9:43 am | One comment

In 1985 Paul Reed Smith officially opened PRS Guitars offering a limited number of guitar models. Throughout the years, these instruments gradually changed the walls of guitar shops with their figured maple tops and eye-catching stains.

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PRS Guitars Introduces the New PRS Artist Package

PRS Guitars Introduces the New PRS Artist Package

Posted April 3, 2012 at 4:51 pm | One comment

Paul Reed Smith Guitars is proud to introduce the new PRS Artist Package, an exclusive platform that offers expanded features, options, and colors on select models in the PRS core electric guitar line.

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PRS SC 58 Wins MIPA for Best Electric Guitar 2011/2012

PRS SC 58 Wins MIPA for Best Electric Guitar 2011/2012

Posted March 23, 2012 at 7:55 am | One comment

PRS Guitars is proud to announce that the popular SC 58 model has received the Musikmesse International Press Award (mipa) for “Best Electric Guitar” 2011/2012.

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Martin Guitars Unveil 15 New Guitars, Ukes And Strings For 2012

Martin Guitars Unveil 15 New Guitars, Ukes And Strings For 2012

Posted December 17, 2011 at 12:30 pm | No comments

According to a press release, C. F. Martin & Co. is bringing exciting new instruments to the 2012 Winter NAMM convention in Anaheim, CA this January. The legendary acoustic guitar company is unveiling 15 innovative guitars and ukuleles that will bolster the brand’s already premiere line of stringed instruments.

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Knaggs Guitars Scheduled to Exhibit at Winter NAMM 2012

Knaggs Guitars Scheduled to Exhibit at Winter NAMM 2012

Posted December 8, 2011 at 10:44 am | One comment

For the first time since its inception, Knaggs Guitars, a Maryland based boutique manufacturer of high-end electric and acoustic guitars, basses and mandolins will be present on the show floor at the 2012 NAMM show in Anaheim, California.

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A Virtual Walk Around The PRS Factory, With Pics!

A Virtual Walk Around The PRS Factory, With Pics!

Posted September 24, 2011 at 4:10 pm | No comments

Experience PRS is a special event. Not only is it one of the guitar world’s only (and definitely the first) single-manufacturer trade shows, where dealers come from around the country to secure their wholesale purchases of Paul Reed Smith guitars and amps, it also gives regular old dudes a chance to see the PRS factory in all its splendor. And by splendor, we mean bare efficiency and palettes and palettes of virgin wood.

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