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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

T he joke in This Is Spinal Tap about an amp that “goes to 11” has particular resonance for anybody who’s ever picked up a solid-body electric guitar. The history of rock music is a ...

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 ...

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 ...