A guitar design that was championed by a mere handful of players – Johnny Winter and Mike Campbell to name but two – the Gibson Firebird is a bona fide classic that far fewer of us own compared with the good ol’ Les Paul. Why?
Because it’s huge! Great for big stages, but for most of today’s musicians, well, good luck. It’s exactly the experience of Darren Horton, the solo Brit-builder behind Daniels Guitars: “I made a Firebird I[-inspired model] for someone last year. I loved the sound of it: it blew me away. But then it’s about 10ft long and I just thought, no.”
