A first glance at one of Joe Yanuziello´s flagship electric guitars tends to elicit a response along the lines of, `Aw, now isn´t that cute!` His hand-made archtops, flat-tops, mandolins, resos, and acoustic Hawaiian lap steel guitars have long drawn gasps of wonder and awe, but the electrics are bringing him more attention of late. Probe these more closely and you uncover so much more than the 1950s catalogue-inspired lines and pickups might first imply. The $6,000-plus price tags might give you a clue, but so does the outright quality of the workmanship: the made-in-house hardware and plastics, the bespoke pickups, the chequerboard or tortoiseshell binding - it all combines to declare...
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