The 75-year-old – who’s not sure how he gets his sound – almost gave up playing when Gibson discontinued the ES-125. Now he ...

The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer like Gibson. The winds of change would soon blow through the company’s ...

I n the late 1950s, Gibson was in the last throes of trying to make its flagship Les Paul solidbody electric guitar fly in a skeptical market. Adding a luscious sunburst finish in 1958 to the ...

Gibson had shifted from Orville’s idiosyncratic creations to produce reliable models such as the L-4 archtop (1912) and the ...

“Pattie,” A 1913 Gibson Style O Archtop Guitar Once Owned by Both Eric Clapton and George Harrison, Can Be Yours—for $1 Million. by Nick Stockton May 15, 2025, 4:31 pm.

Gibson Brands, the iconic guitar manufacturer, is threatening to take legal action against the company behind Trump Guitars over alleged trademark infringement. The 120-year-old maker of historic ...

The next specimen was: the first production model of a 1924 Gibson L-5 archtop, signed by its designer, Lloyd Loar. It had steel strings, f-holes, and the so-called sunburst finish that guitars ...

Gibson's cease and desist stated that Trump Guitars' designs infringed upon the guitar giant's exclusive trademarks, particularly the iconic Les Paul body shape ...

A century-old guitar with a storied history has been listed for sale on Reverb with an asking price of $949,999. The 1913 Gibson Style O Acoustic Archtop, dubbed “Pattie,” was played and owned ...

Gibson has handed a cease and desist notice to Trump Guitars, a brand touting an endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump, for "infringing upon Gibson’s exclusive trademarks, particularly ...

More than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars that could have been sold for a combined $18.7 million were seized by federal authorities after the typically-made—in-America instruments arrived from Asia.

UPDATE 11/25: Gibson has confirmed to Guitar World that it has issued a cease and desist order to Trump Guitars owner 16 Creative over the use of its single-cut electric guitar model, “as the ...