First are solid-body electric guitars. These electric guitar types feature some of the most well-known names in the electric guitar world, such as the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster.

Acoustic guitars rely much more on their resonant qualities to produce their sound, as compared to solid-body and semi-acoustic electrics. As such, the best models demand exotic tonewoods and ...

This solid body guitar is bound to help you harness the spirits of rock. Her Floyd Rose original bridge and two EMG pickups allow you to feel her pulse as you run the pick across her strings.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

One of the first electric guitars only involved an acoustic guitar and a block of wood. In 1940, Les Paul mounted strings on solid block of pine to minimize body vibrations on an electric guitar ...

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.

Guitars NAMM 2025: “A solid body electric guitar built around one idea: Playfulness”: Verso unveils Sine, a totally unique electric guitar with three-dimensional pickup movement for “a new layer of ...

Where solid-body guitars offer those deep, rich, entrancing low frequency vibes, hollow-body constructions offer warmer low-tones and a slightly more soulful approach, depending on who you ask.