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Greg Smallman (born 19 June 1947 in Cronulla, Australia) is the first internationally successful non-traditional Australian guitar-maker. He is known worldwide for his innovative guitar designs [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although his guitars are in outward appearance similar to a traditional Spanish classical guitar , there are numerous innovative differences.
The guitar had a maple laminated top, back and sides, with a set-neck made of mahogany. The florentine cutaway on the 175 was seen as an improvement over the Venetian cutaway that Gibson had been using on guitars. [4] The cutaway and the amplification of a jazz guitar allowed players to use the uppermost frets on the neck during performances. [5]
The "reissue" Firebirds are usually based on the original reverse body design, though Gibson reintroduced the non-reverse Firebird in 2002 as a Custom Shop guitar. Epiphone, owned by Gibson, has also issued several models. Beginning in 2010, Gibson stated that they would no longer be creating banjo tuners for the Firebird. [2]
The Gibson CS-336 is a semi-hollow electric guitar manufactured by Gibson Guitar Corporation's Custom, Art & Historic Division ("CS" is an abbreviation for "Custom Shop"). "). Introduced in 2001, [1] the CS-336 was the Custom Shop's first "tonally carved" guitar, meaning that the back, center block, and sides are carved from one single piece of wood (maho
Marty Stuart bought this unique guitar in 1980 from White's widow. [15] [16] [17] The Cloud – the name given to Prince's custom guitar built by Dave Rusan in 1983. [18] An asymmetric, cloud-shaped body with two controls (a push-pull master tone and a master volume), a long curved arm roughly parallel to the neck, and a unique head.
Originally, the Custom Shop began producing accurate reproductions of early Les Pauls, as well as one-offs. Today, the Custom Shop produces numerous limited-run "historic-spec" models, as well as signature artist models. The first Custom Shop artist guitar was the 1996 Joe Perry Les Paul, and today, several artist models are offered.
Les Paul Custom Nightfall Epiphone: 7-string model also available [323] Les Paul Custom Origins Available in bone white and ebony. Also available in 7-string. [324] [325] Les Paul Custom Snofall 7-string model also available [323] Matt "Guitar" Murphy: MGM-1 Cort [326] Mattias Eklundh: Apple Horn 8 EF Caparison [327] Max Cavalera: Max-200 RPR ...