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Americans don’t always get British humour, but when they do it makes for a fun day. California-based pickup manufacturer Sheptone has announced its new Wanker humbucker – and I’m pretty sure they know what a wanker is. Sheptone Wanker humbucker The new Sheptone Wanker humbucker is aptly named and aimed towards the ’80s-style, hair metal SuperStrat players. […]
Fender has announced the Limited Mahogany Blacktop Stratocaster via a Facebook video. With a triple-humbucker pickup setup, this beast could rival some of Gibson’s models! Fender Limited Mahogany Blacktop Stratocaster Loaded with three humbuckers, this guitar has a mahogany body, giving it a spec that sounds like like guitar models that Gibson offers. But. of course, at […]
Soma Laboratories brings us all sorts of wonderful nonsense and unexpected machines that can both delight and boggle us. Their latest creation is an Electro-Acoustic stringed instrument called Dvina. Dvina What I’m really waiting for is the Pulsar Drum Machine. But until that arrives we have this extraordinarily simple 2-stringed instrument to ponder over. Made from […]
Hailing from Finland, Ruokangas has announced the Valvebucker, which the company reckons is the first ever tube-driven electric guitar pickup. Will it burn your fingers or just produce some smokin’ tone? Ruokangas Valvebucker Here’s the basic idea: put a valve inside a pickup loaded on a guitar. But can this even work? Well, it has a tube-amplified […]
We guitarists are an argumentative bunch, and the guitar world is full of opinions and arguments about how to get the best sounds. One controversy that has raged for years is: What exactly IS the difference in sound between ceramic and alnico pickups? Now someone has come up with a Mythbusters-style video doing an A/B […]
The new CR300 is a classic single-cut design and comes loaded with a pair of very interesting powered pickups, which COrt says can emulate the classic PAF tone of the 1950s. PAF There is hardly a pickup whose status is as legendary as the PAF humbucker. The abbreviation stands for “Patent Applied For” and refers […]
Framus has just announced its Stormbender Devin Townsend Artist Series model – and it looks pretty stunning, as you would expect from this German guitar builder. Framus Stormbender Devin Townsend Artist Series First off, I have to say I think that Devin Townsend is a mad genius, an extremely good musician and all-around man of […]