Unlike many of the guitars here, the M-75 Aristocrat (not to be confused with the chambered, solid body Aristocrat) has the appearance of a solid body singlecut thanks to that virgin spruce top and Franz P90 Soapbar pickups. Revived under the ownership of Cordoba, the brand’s electrics all fall into the Newark St Collection, which recalls the designs Guild was building in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Guild cut its teeth making hollowbody archtop guitars, so you can rest assured that you’re in good hands with its reissue Starfire models. It comes in a choice of Natural, Turquoise and Vintage Sunburst finishes, while incredibly, a more affordable Casino exists in the Casino Worn Range with Worn Olive Drab, Worn Ebony and Worn blue Denim on offer. You get a mahogany neck, Pau Ferro fingerboard and pearloid parallelogram inlays, LockTone tune-somatic bridge and the iconic trapeze tailpiece.
Fitted with P-90s, the current-day Casino features a 5-ply laminated maple top, braced with basswood, laminated maple back and sides and Gibson’s familiar 24.75” scale-length. That should tell you everything you need to know about the types of sounds this affordable archtop is going to provide. Keith Richards was a fan too, as is Noel Gallagher, Dave Grohl, and modern blues icon, Gary Clarke Jr had his own signature model.
PRS SE HOLLOWBODY PIEZO FULL
Read the full PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo reviewĮpiphone’s US-made version might be preferable to someĮver since John Lennon and George Harrison got their hands on an Epiphone Casino each, it’s been a hollowbody legend, and since its launch in 1961, is one of the brands longest-serving six-strings. It’s a bit of a wildcard in the pack, offering a lot of tonal variation that you just won’t get without that piezo. Best of all, there’s two outputs offering a blend of the magnetic/piezo sounds, or you can send them to individual outputs for even greater control. So, not only do you get some excellent magnetic sounds that go beyond spank-a-like rock’n’roll, but the hollow, acoustic properties are present too. It’s not truly totally hollow, as that bridge is mounted to a soundpost that bridges the front and back of the guitar internally, but it’s certainly not a semi-style centre channel.
But there’s more, and the clue is in the name because this guitar is also carrying a PRS Piezo Stoptail bridge - mounted to a small feedback-busting sound block which bridges the top and back internally - co-designed with LR Baggs, to give you some very convincing acoustic tones. The pickups are a pair of PRS 58/15 S humbuckers, giving this guitar a warm, vintage electric tone with added richness thanks to the hollow construction that fits right into the PRS wheelhouse of jazz, blues and rock.
Forget retro designs, the PRS Hollowbody II brings the familiar PRS doublecut shape, with a laminate maple top and back (both capped with flamed maple) sandwiching the mahogany sides, and it offers a very different proposition to the rest of the guitars in this selection.
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