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Guitar Player NAMM 2012 issue: Choptank T2, Kenai T2 and Keya T2

Knaggs Guitars — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:23:01 +0000

“Next time you are in a store that offers Knaggs instruments among their upscale offerings, take one for a test drive and prepare to be impressed.” (www.guitarplayer.com)

Read the full review in Guitar Player NAMM 2012 issue.

Guitar Player NAMM 2012 issue: Choptank T2, Kenai T2 and Keya T2

Guitar Player NAMM 2012 issue: Choptank T2, Kenai T2 and Keya T2

Guitar Player NAMM 2012 issue: Choptank T2, Kenai T2 and Keya T2

Guitar Aficionado Winter 2012

Knaggs Guitars — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:28:59 +0000

“Joe Knaggs has put his own imprint on classic designs in a meaningful way. This is especially apparent with the Kenai, which takes the best features of a fifties humbucker-equipped solid body – no nonsense build and superlative tone – and brings them to a special place with its distinctively modern look and playability”

Guitar Aficionado Winter 2012 - Kenai

Read the full review/feature in Guitar Aficionado’s ‘Wine issue’, Winter 2012, available on news-stands until the end of February 2012.

Interview: Peter Wolf’s Entrepreneurial Spark at Work Building Brands and Writing Songs

Knaggs Guitars — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:23:46 +0000

Peter Wolf with a Knaggs Keya T3 model (Photo: Steven Baumgardner)

With his formidable music industry connections and hard won experience, international marketer Peter Wolf launched his company, Brandwolf, while working his magic getting the word out on the new Knaggs Guitar brand and producing his own brand of music. We first met Pete during his time at Paul Reed Smith Guitars, where he served the company as its Director of Global Sales and Marketing. He’d begun his tenure at PRS when the company was in its infancy and was a key team player, as PRS Guitars became one of the most respected guitar brands in the world. That experience, coupled with his prior marketing and sales work in Europe have proven to be instrumental in the early success of Brandwolf, but more visibly with the launch and steady growth of Knaggs Guitars …
Read the interview on Guitarinternational.com

Guitar Player’s NAMM 2012 issue

Knaggs Guitars — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:14:54 +0000

Please take a look at Guitar Player’s NAMM 2012 issue on news stand shelves early January, providing reviews of 3 of our instruments. These stunning pictures were taken by GP’s Art Director Paul Haggard:

Knaggs Choptank (Tier 2) in Medoc (Photo: Guitar Player, Paul Haggard)

Knaggs Keya (Tier 2) in Golden Natural (Photo: Guitar Player, Paul Haggard)

Knaggs Kenai (Tier 2) in Faded Onyx (Photo: Guitar Player, Paul Haggard)

Interview: Joe Knaggs talks about growing his own at Knaggs Guitars

Knaggs Guitars — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:05:47 +0000

Joe Knaggs (Photo: Peter Wolf)

Starting up a guitar business in this economic downturn takes a lot of confidence in one’s abilities to design, build, market and sell, in fact, in nearly any economic climate you’ve just got to have the talent and the guts to live that kind of dream.

So, hats off to Joe Knaggs who made a tough decision …

Read the interview on guitarinternational.com

Guitar International: Knaggs Guitars Scheduled to Exhibit at Winter NAMM 2012

Knaggs Guitars — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:55:19 +0000

According to a new press release from Knaggs Guitars, a Maryland based boutique manufacturer of high-end electric and acoustic guitars, basses and mandolins the company will be present on the show floor at the 2012 NAMM show in Anaheim, California.

Since the company was founded only 24 months ago by storied and acclaimed designer and luthier Joseph Knaggs and marketing/branding mastermind Peter Wolf, it has drawn attention and respect from a growing number of players, guitar aficionados and media in over 20 countries. (…)

Read on: www.guitarinternational.com

Delmarvanow.com: “Knaggs the Holy Grail of guitars”

Knaggs Guitars — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:09:59 +0000

Crafting a Knaggs Guitar: Owner of Knaggs Guitars, Joseph Knaggs, takes us through the process of creating a Knaggs Guitar from concept to design to carving to painting and finishing a beautiful musical instrument:

”Like fine glass, apparel, jewelry and sculpture,
it is his designs that set Knaggs guitars apart
from the competition. The shape of the guitar,
the feel, the quality, are all aspects that make
for a Joe Knaggs guitar.”

Read on: www.delmarvanow.com

Guitarist, UK, September 2011: Chesapeake Choptank & Severn

Knaggs Guitars — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:23:26 +0000

Guitarist: Win a Choptank!

Guitarist: Round-up Double-cuts

www.guitarist.co.uk

Buzz Bin feature (Influence Kenai, Tier 2)

Knaggs Guitars — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:34:04 +0000

Buzz Bin

Musikmesse 2011: Knaggs Guitars [Video]

Knaggs Guitars — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:51:06 +0000

(Youtube)

Guitar Dreams 3.2011: ‚Morgenstern am Gitarrenhimmel‘

Knaggs Guitars — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:05:11 +0000

„… Sie wollen ‚die besten Gitarren und Bässe der Welt‘ bauen. Große Worte, denen die kleine US-Firma Knaggs Guitars allerdings auch entsprechende Taten folgen lässt. …“

Dieser Artikel ist zu lesen in: Guitar Dreams 3.2011, Seite 70
(www.guitar-dreams.de)

Gitarre & Bass 7/11: Knaggs Influence Kenai (Tier 3) Review

Knaggs Guitars — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:27:21 +0000

„… Die Knaggs Kenai klingt und fühlt sich an wie eine alte Freundin, die man lange nicht gesehen hat …“ (Heinz Rebellius)

Dieser Artikel ist zu lesen in: GITARRE & BASS 7/2011 Seite 110
(www.gitarrebass.de)

Autona.com interview: Peter Wolf – Brandwolf, Knaggs Guitars

Knaggs Guitars — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:02:01 +0000

Peter Wolf and Joe Knaggs (Photo: Larry Melton)

„… Joe Knaggs und ich sind jetzt 18 Monaten mit einem kleinen aber feinen Team am Start und es war eine sehr interessante Zeit, auf allen Ebenen. … Wir bauen im Moment ca. 25 Instrumente im Monat. Ich könnte sicherlich das 10-fache verkaufen. aber High-End-Gitarrenbau ist ein hartes Stück Arbeit und dauert seine Zeit …“

Read the interview (in german) on Autona.com

Guitarist magazine, UK May 2011 issue of a Severn Tier 1 Golden Natural

Knaggs Guitars — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:28:44 +0000

Guitarist magazine, UK May 2011, double page spread

“… Knaggs is becoming a major contender offering finely crafted guitars for collectors and experienced players alike …”

Knaggs Mini Brochure

Knaggs Guitars — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:57:18 +0000

Open publication

Check out our first brochure. Created by Creatixdesign.co.uk (thanks Tanya) and our UK distributors Zoom LTD, UK and Sound Service, Germany. Product photography by Larry Melton, Nature photography by Greg Izzi.
Download (PDF, 8 MB)

Knaggs Guitars » Media

Guitar Player NAMM 2012 issue: Choptank T2, Kenai T2 and Keya T2

Guitar Aficionado Winter 2012

Interview: Peter Wolf’s Entrepreneurial Spark at Work Building Brands and Writing Songs

Guitar Player’s NAMM 2012 issue

Interview: Joe Knaggs talks about growing his own at Knaggs Guitars

Guitar International: Knaggs Guitars Scheduled to Exhibit at Winter NAMM 2012

Delmarvanow.com: “Knaggs the Holy Grail of guitars”

”Like fine glass, apparel, jewelry and sculpture, it is his designs that set Knaggs guitars apart from the competition. The shape of the guitar, the feel, the quality, are all aspects that make for a Joe Knaggs guitar.”

Guitarist, UK, September 2011: Chesapeake Choptank & Severn

Buzz Bin feature (Influence Kenai, Tier 2)

Musikmesse 2011: Knaggs Guitars [Video]

Guitar Dreams 3.2011: ‚Morgenstern am Gitarrenhimmel‘

Gitarre & Bass 7/11: Knaggs Influence Kenai (Tier 3) Review

Autona.com interview: Peter Wolf – Brandwolf, Knaggs Guitars

Guitarist magazine, UK May 2011 issue of a Severn Tier 1 Golden Natural

Knaggs Mini Brochure

”Like fine glass, apparel, jewelry and sculpture,
it is his designs that set Knaggs guitars apart
from the competition. The shape of the guitar,
the feel, the quality, are all aspects that make
for a Joe Knaggs guitar.”