Clear Favorite
inspired an era of fanciful guitar designs, like Gibson’s 1958 entrants the Flying V and Explorer. Not as well known, but no less revolutionary, was Ampeg’s 1969 Dan Armstrong guitar, a comparatively late arrival that was just as eye catching and memorable. The guitar featured a clear body made of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), a substance that had been around since the 1930s and offered commercially as Plexiglas, Lucite and Perspex. Decidedly modernistic for its day, the Dan Armstrong guitar featured an outré design that kept it from being a
