Gibson delays shipments of their new Dark Fire robot guitars past the December 15th rollout date.

Citing production issues and increased demand, Gibson now plans to build and deliver limited quantities to select dealers through out the coming year. The Dark Fire features Gibson’s Chameleon Tone Technology and advanced 2nd generation robotic self tuning.

Eddie Van Halen launches the all-new EVH® Wolfgang™ electric guitar, available worldwide beginning Jan. 2009.

The EVH Wolfgang guitar represents Eddie’s 35 years of experimenting with guitars, over two years of intense research and development, and a full year of brutal road testing during the top-grossing Van Halen 2007-2008 tour.

With the launch of Gibson’s new Dark Fire guitar no fewer than twenty Robot models have been released to date.
Robot is the new, motorized self tuning technology Gibson first debuted December 2007 with the ground breaking Limited Edition First-Run Les Paul. These beautiful instruments with their dramatic Blue Silverburst finish sold out within days [...]

I actually played this guitar. My first thought was “who in their right mind is going to pay $25,000 for this beat up piece of s__t”.

The world’s 1st run limited edition Gibson Dark Fire guitar went on sale on December 15, 2008 at 400 dealers throughout the world. Each store will be limited to carrying only 5 of the sought after guitars and no guitar can be sold before 5pm on Monday, December 15, 2008. Once the guitars are sold out they will not be reproduced.