Photo Gallery: Day Two, Summer NAMM '05

Text by Doug Dalrymple and Tom Watson
Photos by James R. O'Donnell

Saturday, July 23, 2005, day two of the 2005 Summer NAMM Session, finds attendees taking a more leisurely look at the offerings from both new and familiar names. Among the new models pictured below are the Martin Guitar Sting "Mini", a size 5 Terz, 12-frets-to-body; the Martin LX Realtree HD with a custom Realtree hard woods pattern; the Martin limited edition Claire's Guitar; the Paul Reed Smith Chevy Corvette model; and, the new RKS series of guitars that feature an award-winning design.

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Daisy Rock Guitars

The Daisy Series from Daisy Rock Guitars. Shown below in Pepper Mint and Awesome Blue.

Daisy Rock Monarch Guitars from the Butterfly Series.

Heritage Guitars

Lane Zastrow, President of Lasar Music Corporation, the exclusive sales and marketing company for Heritage Guitars, Inc.

Martin Guitar

Below: Dick Boak, Martin Guitar's manager of Artist Relations and Publicity, holding Martin Trey Anastasio model.

Martin's Racecar Model

Martin LX Realtree Model

Martin Claire's Guitar. This is a limited edition (100) run celebrating the arrival of the seventh generation of a guitar making dynasty, the birth of Claire Frances Martin, daughter of Christian Frederick Martin, IV.

Closeup of fretboard of Martin Claire Guitar

Christian Frederick Martin, IV, with Claire

The new Martin Sting Mini

Cathy Fink (center) and Marcy Marx (right) play their signature model Martins at the Martin '05 Summer NAMM booth.

PRS Guitars

Custom designed PRS Chevy Corvette guitar.

More guitars from the PRS booth.

Peter Wolf, Director of Sales and Marketing, PRS Guitars.

RKS Guitars

Colorful RKS Guitars

Bridge of RKS Guitar

Back of RKS Guitar

Test driving an RKS

Ravi K. Sawhney, CEO and co-founder of RKS Guitars.

Paul Janowski, RKS Guitars Director of Operations

Taylor Guitars

Limited Edition Taylors.

New Taylor T5s.

From the Taylor booth.

Bob Taylor, president, Taylor Guitars