Framus Diablo Progressive X Guitar

These videos are bonus content related to the April 2013 issue of Guitar World. Check out this month&issue for full tabs, transcriptions and lessons: Framus is famous for producing the museum-quality, vintage-style guitars favored by artists like Earl Slick, Elliot Easton and John Jorgenson. But the German guitar maker also applies its uncompromising craftsmanship and engineering excellence to guitars made for metal players, like the new Diablo Progressive X. Its design wisely defers to many of the ideals established by metal guitar makers in the early Eighties, including the belief that rounder neck profiles create more sustain, and that medium-to-heavyweight bodies offer a fuller tone with driven amps. As with Framus&other superlative planks, this combination of established ideologies, unerring German technology and famously resonant woods results in a guitar that&as exciting as it is refined.