The man who invented history’s most iconic electric guitar couldn’t play, or even tune it. But when Clarence Leonidas “Leo” ...

Solid body guitars, that’s your standard no-holes electric are exactly that - dense pieces of solid wood. Semi-hollow body guitars such as Gibson’s ES-335 feature a top, back and sides, but also use a ...

Sure, an electric pickup can be placed into an acoustic guitar but it still won’t sound like a solid-body electric guitar—or vice versa.

Les Paul, who pioneered the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock 'n' roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.

Solid-body electric guitars don't have a sound hole, so they don't reverberate in the same way. But you can still hear the difference. "A vintage Les Paul is going to sound like a growl," says Gil ...

But the actual advent of the solid-body electric guitar, sometime in the 1940s, was a tangled tale of tinkerers, craftsmen, musicians and businessmen who hardly realized what they had unleashed.

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month this April with a look at five of the most exciting electric guitars at the National Museum of American History.

It takes seven to eight weeks for David Hullings to create each of his solid-body guitars, but he says it's a labor of love. "I build the bodies from scratch generally, do all the routing, do all ...

Which came first: Gibson or Telecaster? Throughout that decade, Leo Fender, who had developed an amplified lap steel guitar, was also working on his version of the solid-body electric.

After a bit of inspiration, [Pete] decided to build a solid body electric guitar for himself. Instead of assembling a conglomeration of off-the-shelf parts, he plans on building just about everythi… ...

Even though it had a solid body guitar, it sounded like an acoustic guitar, due in large part to the pine, which blows the fancy guitars away. After all, what we want from our musical instrument ...

16 Creative is behind the "only guitar endorsed by Donald Trump." Gibson Guitars has issued a cease-and-desist letter for trademark infringement.