Early guitar players to use his hand-built guitars were Stanley Whitaker (of Happy The Man), Derek St. Holmes (of Ted Nugent's band) and Howard Leese (then with Heart), but Smith's big break came when Carlos Santana began playing the still hand-built guitars, which at the time looked like a Gibson Les Paul with a double cut-away and were made of expensive woods like curly maple.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Antiquity. Antiquity is an academic journal dedicated to the subject of archaeology. It publishes four editions a year, covering topics worldwide from all periods.
An artifact or artefact (from Latin phrase arte factum ~ ars skill + facere to make) is something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest.rtifact is the only spelling in American English, whilst artefact is generally preferred elsewhere (see spelling differences).