About the Hideout
The Origin Story
Paul's Guitar Hideout is a guitar shop on the second floor of The Shirt Factory in Glens Falls, New York. I'm Paul Hake, and I opened it in September 2026. We're an authorized dealer for Fender, Martin, Boss, Roland, Fishman, Seymour Duncan, Dunlop and MXR, and we buy and sell used gear. Our luthier and technician, Dave Eastwood, handles setups and repairs, and Travis Gray, who I've been playing music with since we were kids, teaches lessons here.
It didn't really start as a business idea. Music was there early. Peter Gabriel's So on car rides. Ozzy. Judas Priest. Records I didn't just like. They felt important to me before I could have explained why.
I met Travis in 1999, when I was 12, through his brother. We started playing guitar together, making up songs, and eventually forming bands. It never really stopped.
By high school we were playing around the Capital Region and getting opportunities that seemed pretty impossible at the time. We opened for bands like Breaking Benjamin, Hawthorne Heights, Bayside, and The Presidents of the United States of America. Our band was called Horse in a Box. Neither of us came up with the name. Don't ask.
After high school we formed The Loyalty and got much more serious about songwriting. We won a listener contest on WEQX, played with The Strokes in Albany on the First Impressions of Earth tour, and got close to a few record deals that ultimately didn't happen. I kept making music anyway.
I got deeper into engineering and producing, kept writing and releasing music as Pillowhead, and eventually moved into mastering records with New York Mastering Co., the last step before a record comes out. One thing kept turning into the next.
The Hideout came out of all of that. I wanted a guitar shop like the ones before the internet, where you came in for gear and left wanting to play.
The Hideout ended up inside The Shirt Factory in Glens Falls, a 1902 shirt mill now filled with artists, craftspeople, and small businesses. A pretty fitting home for a scrappy little guitar shop.
More than twenty-five years after we first started playing music together, Travis is here with me, teaching lessons to students of all ages. That's how the Hideout started.
I still write, record and master music. At home, I live with my best pal Riley, an American Staffordshire Terrier adopted through Lucky Puppy in Argyle, NY.
What We're Here For
Music is the great healer and equalizer, and I want Paul's Guitar Hideout to help build a real guitar community around Glens Falls.
A place where somebody walks in for their first guitar or their first lesson, and somebody else brings in their dad's old six-string and hears it come back to life. Where a beginner finds out they can actually do this, and somebody who stopped playing years ago finds a reason to start again.
I grew up in shops like that. I bought my first guitar with the first paycheck I ever earned. Those shops were where you found your next favorite band, and where somebody showed you something you didn't know.
You pick up a guitar because you like how it looks. Next thing you know, you're writing songs and starting a band with someone who becomes a lifelong friend. I want the Hideout to be where that starts. Inspiration is priceless, and it's what we deal in.
Paul's Guitar Hideout is located at The Shirt Factory in Glens Falls, NY. Use the Cooper Street entrance and take the stairs up. If stairs are difficult or you're bringing in something you don't want to carry up, call or text us and we'll arrange access.
The Shirt Factory
71 Lawrence St., Suite 201B, 2nd Floor
Glens Falls, NY 12801
Wednesday–Sunday, 12–5 PM
(518) 217-8695 · info@paulsguitarhideout.com