Semi-Hollow Body Guitars

Somewhere between a Telecaster’s snap and an archtop’s woolly warmth sits the sound most blues players are actually chasing — and it lives inside a semi-hollow. Pick up almost any classic blues record from the mid-1960s onward and there’s a decent chance a semi-hollow guitar is doing the talking, because the design solves a problem … Read more

Somewhere between the boomy, feedback-prone archtop and the clinical snap of a solid body sits the semi-hollow — jazz’s great compromise, and honestly, its best-kept secret. A semi-hollow electric guitar is a hollow-bodied instrument with a solid centre block running through the middle, and that block is doing more work than most players ever give … Read more

Somewhere between the twangy honesty of a fully hollow archtop and the blunt-force reliability of a solid body sits the best semi-hollow guitar for your particular ears — and working out which one that is can feel like being asked to pick a favourite child. What is a semi-hollow guitar? In short: an electric guitar … Read more