Eric Clapton takes the stage at Bray Studios ... and pearl inlay binding and soundhole filigree. Waverly Relic open-gear nickel tuning machines and a real bone saddle complete the package.

Few guitarists will forget the first time they heard Clapton’s ecstatic playing on the track Hideaway from the Bluesbreakers’ ‘Beano’ album. The tone EC achieved on that record has become one of the ...