He holds up pieces for one of the instruments. “What I'm modeling these after is 100-year-old Gibson mandolins,” he said.

It aims to exit bankruptcy protection on 24 September. The earliest documented instrument produced by founder Orville Gibson was a mandolin made in 1894, with the company being officially founded ...

There are guitar companies as old as Gibson but few who have made such a breadth of classic instruments – from mandolins and archtops to iconic solidbody electrics, debonair jazz guitars and ...

He holds up pieces for one of the instruments. “What I'm modeling these after is 100-year-old Gibson mandolins,” he said. “Those were the mandolins used and played in early bluegrass.