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GALLERY: NAMM 2018 Day 1

Check out the latest gear from Koll, Rickenbacker, Reverend, Chase Bliss Audio, and more!

Koll Guitar Company Super Cub

Saul Koll also brought his new Super Cub line to Winter NAMM. And this tastefully relic'd turquoise specimen was the pick of the bunch in our humble opinion. The Curtis Novak Guyatone replica pickups sound killer. But the guitar is an absolute joy to play. It's light, slim, and the neck with Jescar 5590 frets is to die for. Imagine a kind of ideal world between a mid '60s Epiphone Coronet, a Melody Maker SG, and a slim-necked Fender from the same period and you get the idea of how this guitar feels in hand. Koll offers scads of pickup and vibrato options too--most around the low 2K zone, a fair price for this kind of craft.

Tom Bedell in the Relic Music acoustic room, holding a custom Seed to Song Parlor with a stunning ocean sinker redwood top and milagro Brazilian rosewood back and sides.

As head of Breedlove and Bedell Guitars, he’s championed sustainability and environmental causes—and he wants to tell you about it.

As the owner of the Breedlove and Bedell guitar companies, Tom Bedell has been a passionate advocate for sustainable practices in acoustic guitar manufacturing. Listening to him talk, it’s clear that the preservation of the Earth’s forests are just as important to Bedell as the sound of his guitars. You’ll know just how big of a statement that is if you’ve ever had the opportunity to spend time with one of his excellently crafted high-end acoustics, which are among the finest you’ll find. Over the course of his career, Bedell has championed the use of alternative tonewoods and traveled the world to get a firsthand look at his wood sources and their harvesting practices. When you buy a Bedell, you can rest assured that no clear-cut woods were used.

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New Epiphone inspired by Gibson Custom Collection features eight new guitar models with Gibson USA pickups, high quality electronics, rosewood fretboards, world-renowned Gibson open-book headstocks, one-piece necks, new vintage gloss finishes, and premium design builds.

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ENGL, renowned for its high-performance amplifiers, proudly introduces the EP635 Fireball IR Pedal, a revolutionary 2-channel preamp pedal designed to deliver the legendary Fireball tone in a compact and feature-rich format.

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J Mascis is well known for his legendary feats of volume.

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