Fender stratocaster 1976 (CBS)

The legendary Fender stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul are my favovourite guitars. The guitar shown below was made during the CBS era. It is made with:

• Ash body;
• maple neck and fretboard;
• metal plate on the rear side of the body with three screws;
• black pickguard;
• three single coil pick-ups;
• three ways switch;
• weight: 3,930 kg;

The guitar has the tipical strtocaster sound of the years 70s, with brilliant tones. The finish is a typical three color sunburst. Have you ever got a guitar og this era? What about?

Day by day - 83th anniversary of the born of Joe Pass (New Brunswick, January 13 1929 – Los Angeles, May 23 1994)

We want to remember this fantastic jazz guitarist with this video, here with his Gibson.

Day by day - Happy birthday to Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)

Jimmy page takes 68 years! Happy birthday Jimmy!

Day by day column - 75 anniversary of the birth of Elvis Presley

Today we inaugurate our new day by day column!  Every day we will remember a particular event happened in that day!

Today is the 75th anniversary of the birth of  Elvis Presley. We want to remember him with one of his gratest hits : blue suede shoes!

60th anniversary of the Gibson J185 Quilt

The first J185 got out of production in 1958. With this new limited edition Gibson wants pays homage to one of the most successful models. Main features are:

-spruce pine top;
-maple back and sides;
-mahogany neck with "V" profile;
-rosewood freatboard with twenty frets;

The guitar will be available with natural and vintage sanburst finishes.

Gibson announces the new Les Paul Classic Custom

With this new guitar Gibson wants to confirm the high quality of all the Custom models with some new characteristics like the baking treatment for the maple fretboard. This treatment allows higher resistance with respect to mechanic and thermal stresses. The guitar will have two pick-ups "57 Classic Alnico II" and will be sold in U.S.A. starting from a list price of 2999$.

 More informations on the Les Paul Classic Custom official web site.

25th anniversary of the Ibanez RG series

In 2012 Ibanez celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Ibanez RG series. A commemorative model is expected to be presented during the 2012 NAMM Show that will take place from 01/19/2012 to 01/22/2012 in Anaheim, California.

Waiting in suspense for this new guitar!

Eight new guitars to remember the launch of the Titanic

Some Irish luthiers decided to dedicate eight new guitars to the Titanic story. The guitars will be produced in a limited production and they will presented at the 2012 NAMM show. The production will be made in China but guitars will be finished in Ireland. Each guitar will come with a genuineness certificate.

For more information visit also the official web site.

New Select Series by Fender

Five new guitars and two new basses were presented by Fender: the Select Series made in USA. The new models are:

•  2 Stratocaster;
• 3 Telecaster;
• One Precision bass;
• One Jazz Bass.

This new line is characterised by superior quality materials.

All details @ http://www.fender.com/en-US/products/select

Peter Frampton's Les Paul Custom was found after 32 years!

After 32 years by the plan crash happened in Venezuela the mythic three pick-up guitar of Peter Frampton was found by two fans after several years search. The guitar was found near the Caribbean Sea and immediately brought to Gibson's experts to validate its genuineness. Then the guitar was restored and it entered in the Peter Frampton's personal collection. The guitar will soon be insured for two million dollars.

What luck!

What do you think about it?

Gibson Les Paul Custom 1980

Hi guys!

I’m so excited to start a new adventure with this blog. In this first post I want to show you my favourite guitar. I bought it when I was twenty and I still use it when I play with my band. The Gibson Les Paul Custom is probably the queen of guitars. It is also known as the Black Beauty or Freetless Wonder due the extremely comfortable fingerboard. This guitar was built in 1980  ( Kalamazoo ). Main features are:

• maple top

•  mahogany back

• maple neck

•  ebony fingerboard

• gold plated hardware

• abalone rhombus on the headstock

•  tuners: Shaller ( tulip type )

• pick-up: Original Hambucking

Sure this is not a light guitar but this characteristic allow a great sustain and an incredible sound. In this way it can be used to play pop, rock, metal and many music gender.

I started with this guitar my career of guitarist and singer so I am so affectioned to it. Play this guitar give me fantastic emotion. 

I hope you will enjoy these photos!

New year -> new blog!

 Hi everyone! Today we are happy to open our "Lazy Guitar blog", the new online space that will always propose you wonderful pictures, reviews and news about the guitar world.

I am a guitarist since I was a child and now I am also a collector, always looking for new guitars to collect.

I would like to share my passion about this amazing instrument with you!

STAY TUNED!