Taylor has tried it, Collings is very successful at it and now Lowden is having a go at crossing over to the electric side of guitar design. We take a look…
“It took me a year and a half, there was a lot to think about, but then I went away to Portugal for a week to design this guitar – I do that, I’ll kind of go for walks and things and get my head clearer whenever I’m designing something. It came out a lot better than I thought it would. I know I’m biased,” he laughs, “but I wasn’t really expecting it. I didn’t know what to expect.” It’s to Lowden’s credit that the resulting GL-10 is far from yet another ’Burst imitator. Yes, it’s a single-cutaway and has twin humbuckers, an inset tune-o-magic style bridge and a three-way toggle switch but that’s where any resemblance ends. It’s designed around a 630mm (24.8 inch) scale, standard on Lowden’s S-style, and placed between industry standards, Gibson and PRS.
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