Aria Guitar Co. is a major musical instrument brand from Japan. They produce a well-respected range of guitars and basses and have done so since 1964. Aria used Kahler tremolo systems until 1984, after which the company went on to produce a number of excellent proprietary and licensed Floyd Rose tremolo systems for its "Aria Pro II" guitars during the 1980s, as well as using shared OEM systems. In the late 1990s, Aria went back to using Gotoh, Kahler, and Original Floyd Rose

CITES is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. This is a resolution adopted by the World...

Originally written 2009. Updated 2025. NOTE: There are many other well-known tone woods used in the making of acoustic guitars. This...

As part of my experimenting with factory-made guitars in 2023, I spent a great deal of time researching whether there might be a need in...

These are the last of the Gaskell Hybrid Series guitars made in 2023, plus a couple of personal guitars of mine that I am willing to let...

I was a bit slow in renewing my domain ownership for www.gaskellguitars.com.au this year and hackers jumped on it before I got to renew....

Update: November 2025. It has taken me more than two years to put this series together, but I have finally written the absolute definitive guide on left-handed Floyd Rose tremolos. I spent thousands of hours, and it turned out to be more of a rabbit hole than I anticipated. I have drawn from personal experience and research. This is everything you would ever need to know (if you were interested) in Floyd Rose and other types of OEM or proprietary locking tremolo systems. I a

I have a Tonerider Rocksong pickup in one of my personal Gaskell Explorers. The thing is a beast. I love it. But that is not the reason I...

Well, you can't say I didn't try.  But the bottom line is that in the ruins of this post-Covid world, doing one-off guitar builds using...

All Gaskell Custom Shop guitars are 100% made in Australia using the highest quality tonewoods, hardware and electronics sourced from all...

It's been a good year for Gaskell Guitars, hardly sustainable (hence why I have a "job" too) but still worth it, even if just...

Well, I am HAPPY to say that most customer orders for the Gaskell HYBRID Series are in! I have preliminarily inspected these guitars and...

Well, I am not very happy to say that all guitars in production are behind schedule, some as much as four weeks. I am not sure exactly...

One thing that all the major guitar brands utterly fail on when it comes to making left hand guitars (if they even do) is fitting them...

Is there such a thing? Do you have to think about this when buying or upgrading a lefty guitar? Electric guitars have two types of...

As lefty players very well know, left handed guitar availability has never been consistent with the mainstream guitar brands. ​ Some big...

"Relic" guitars are new guitars made to look old. I have decided to do some through the factory I am using for the 2023 Hybrid Series...

At the end of 2022 I decided to experiment with making factory guitars again. The last time I made factory guitars was in 2011. The...

I have been through storage and have found a number of N.O.S guitars, unfinished or not even assembled. ALL ARE FOR SALE.  No pictures...

Trichilia is a Mahogany family genus with 70 species, four of which are native to Africa and the remainder native to West Indies and ranges from Mexico through Central America to Brazil and Bolivia in South America. There are 43 species alone in Brazil. Two of the four African species have timber uses and one species of the American species is recognized for its timber uses.