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 ...

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 ...

To provide the electronic element of its hybrid design, the Acoustasonic Player Telecaster—which can partially trace its inspiration back to the first mass-produced solid-body guitars, released ...

In 1951, Leo Fender—whose company created the iconic Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster solid-body electric guitars—introduced the first electric bass that could be worn and played like a ...

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.

If you have ever listened to rock, you have probably heard a solid-body swamp ash guitar. But now climate change is threatening the wood that helped build rock and roll.

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 ...

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

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.

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, ...

The "Presidential Series" solid-body guitars are listed on the Trump Guitars website for $1,500 along with an "American Eagle Series" of acoustic and electric guitars that retail for $1,250 and ...