Bringing A 167-Year Old Martin 2-24 Back To Life| Benchtalk #6 Christian Frederick Martin was born into a family of violin builders. The guitar was only a recent development and hadn’t garnered a lot of attention yet. Christian studied with Viennese master builde... 20 August 2024
The Art of Luthiery | How Somogyi & Matsuda Create Guitar Masterpieces It is not often that we have a real Somogyi in the shop, let alone together with a guitar by one of his students. So when we received a Thin Dreadnought by Somogyi and 'Mottainai' model by Michihiro M... 13 August 2024
Leif de Leeuw Podcast #3: Novo Guitars, The Industry's Pricing & Motifs in Improvising For the third episode of our podcast with Leif de Leeuw, Fellow Maico joins us! Each episode, we choose guitars from our shop that have a great story attached to them or that are simply incredibly coo... 6 August 2024
New at TFOA: Beard Guitars! Beard Guitars is a name synonymous with craftsmanship and innovation in the world of resonator guitars. The story of Beard Guitars began when founder Paul Beard became fascinated by resonator guitars ... 2 August 2024
Benchtalk #5: The Gibson ES335 The 1950’s were a tumultuous period when it comes to electric guitars. The release of the Fender Broadcaster at the beginning of the decade was a bombshell that blew up the market and introduced guita... 30 July 2024
Powers Electric & Eastman D'Ambrosio: Two New Offset Models from the USA All the way from the United States, we have received two new offset, electric guitar models. The first is from San Diego and is the result of Andy Powers', the CEO of Taylor Guitars, love of guitars a... 23 July 2024
The second episode of our Leif de Leeuw podcast is now live! Leif de Leeuwis a true friend of The Fellowship and, in addition to recording wonderful demos, is now doing his own podcast with us. After the success of the first podcast episode ( listen here )Leif ... 2 July 2024
Benchtalk #4: The Legend of Bill Collings & Collings Guitars The Early Years Bill Collings was a pre-med student at Ohio University in the 1970’s when he realized that he was more interested in guitars and engineering than medicine and decided to quit and move ... 18 June 2024
The Powers Electrics are here! Most people will know Andy Powers primarily from his role at Taylor Guitars. In 2014, Andy joined Taylor Guitars as a Master Builder. Since joining Taylor, Andy has focused on refining Taylor's acoust... 14 June 2024
Our first podcast with Leif de Leeuw! 🎸 Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast with the one and only Leif de Leeuw. Besides making albums, touring with his own band and being the blues king of Benelux, Leif is also one of our Fel... 4 June 2024
Bertolf's Bluegrass Guitar Masterclass! If you ask Bertolf: "Everyone loves bluegrass, many just don't realise it yet...". And we can't think of a better guitarist to unleash that love of Bluegrass in others! That's why Bertolf visited our ... 24 April 2024
What is B-stock? What are B-stock guitars and gear? B-stock refers to products that, according to our standards for conditions can no longer be sold as new, even though they are new. In any case, they are NOT second-h... 21 March 2024