When I started taking guitar lessons when I was 12, my teacher was an old Italian gentleman who only played (and only taught) jazz. He would teach me blues or rock but he was pretty much the only teacher in town in...

D'ANGELICO EXCEL, 1960, sunburst, 17" Excel Cutaway, 7 ply body binding, 3 ply ƒ hole binding, Ebony squared off board with block inlays, Johnny Smith style floating pickup at neck, repaired crack north of the bass ƒ...