“A friend of mine worked at a guitar shop that carried rare archtop jazz guitars,” he tells Guitar ... His main squeeze is a Gibson ES-175D that he bought in 1964, a time when Gibsons weren ...

Its guitars have been played by the likes of Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix, and now Gibson is opening a central London store.

Palen may not be a musician, but during the past three years, he has earned the respect of jazz guitarists throughout the world. When these professionals pick up one of Palen’s archtop guitars ...