“One heck of a rock ’n’ roll vision that sounds glorious and has huge tonal flexibility. Oh, and it doesn’t look like a Fender!” Newman Honeycomb Senior review

Newman Honeycomb Senior.

What is it?

It’s pretty rare that we get to document a guitar from blueprint to production, but that’s been the case with Newman Guitars, a US company founded by Jeff Smith and dedicated to continuing the work of roadie-turned-luthier Ted Newman Jones III after his adventures with The Rolling Stones during the ’70s. Latterly, Jeff befriended Ted and digitised his design, which Ted signed off before he passed away in 2016.