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Radioshop Pickups

Six years ago, two ex-schoolteachers with a mutual love for great guitar tone went into business building pickups with a few twists that are uniquely their own…

On The Turning Away

It Is, Undoubtedly, The Guitar Sale Of The Century. On 20 June, David Gilmour’s Most Prized Guitars, Including The Celebrated Black Strat, Go Under The Hammer In New York. We Join Gilmour To Hear Why He’s Letting Go Of So Many Of His Most Cherished Guitars – And Examine Some Of The Icons On Sale

Longtermers

A few months’ gigging, recording and everything that goes with it – welcome to Guitarist ’s longterm test report

Hail To The King

With a design that looks back to the 50s and some futureproof internal additions, Supro’s latest has some surprises under the hood and a rather attractive price

1958 Gibson Les Paul Custom

Vintage guitar veteran David Davidson of Well Strung Guitars and the Songbirds vintage guitar museum retraces the history of the Les Paul Custom as we take a close look at this stunning 1958 Black Beauty…

What's Goin' On

All the best guitar events you need to put in the diary...

Swiss Things

Pedalboard management from the Swiss Army knife of stompboxes.

Raising The Tone - Factory Fresh Tone

The Final Part Of Our Feature On Tone Sees Adrian Emsley Explaining How To Choose New Valves For Your Amp.

Preamp Live

Mooer’s latest packs multiple-preamp power for your ’board.

Mercury Rising

BluGuitar reboots its award-winning portable head with an extended range of sounds and a studio-worthy new reverb.

Lenny Kravitz

Now 30 years into a multi-million-album-selling career, serial Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz credits his success with hits such as Are You Gonna Go My Way and Always On The Run to instinctive, from-the-gut riffing and a ‘first take’ recording philosophy. Here, he looks back on his lifelong love of guitar, the virtues of vintage Gibsons, being schoolmates with Slash and how his greatest riff was recorded with another band hammering on the studio door…

Joanne Shaw Taylor

The first lady of British blues reflects upon Bulgarian kazoo players and the wisdom of keeping a corkscrew handy at all times…

Grand Canyon

EHX’s latest goes deep to offer a comprehensive multi-function delay.

Gas Supply

Our pick of the month’s most delectable, wallet-bothering new gear.

Barrie Cadogan

Squeezing us in between tour dates and many other musical commitments, the Little Barrie frontman drops by the Guitarist studios for a catch-up and to deliver a video masterclass…

All White Now !

Neville Marten Revisits A Past Life To Upgrade A Modest Strat To Custom Spec.

Longtermers

A few months’ gigging, recording and everything that goes with it – welcome to Guitarist ’s longterm test report

Brandy Row

If Ronnie Wood had joined The Clash he might have sounded something like Essex rebel-rouser Brandy Row. We join this tattooed neo-troubadour,who’s a veteran of Denmark Street’s Tin Pan Alley, to discuss taking on the world with a fistful of battered old guitars...

KT Tunstall

The singer-songwriter reflects on backstage cuisine and how finding the correct earplugs changed her life…

Pickup Artist

We catch up with Fender’s pickup guru Tim Shaw in his Nashville lair to learn more about the process behind the American Performers

One For All

A complete kit of parts for putting your pedalboard together. Everything you need, bar the pedals

Graham Nash

From pop hitmaker in The Hollies to the Woodstock stage with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Graham Nash is one of the most successful – and thoughtful – British songwriters of all time. We met him to talk about Woodstock, Neil Young, old Martins and new songs

Kings Of Country

We take a look at Gibson’s ‘king of the flat-tops’ with Walter Carter, author of the spec check bible Gruhn’s Guide To Vintage Guitars and proprietor of Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville, Tennessee

Atkin Guitars

This month, we head to Canterbury and the workshops of one of the UK’s fastest growing acoustic guitar builders…

Epiphone Zenith

Part of the Masterbilt series, the Zenith signalled a new era for Epiphone

Telecaster Pickups

Joe Dobson, founder of London’s Joseph Kaye Guitars, explains the radical differences between Tele pickups old and new

Modern Art

In a celebration of great British amp building, Hamstead Soundworks releases a single-channel masterpiece to follow up its Artist 20RT – home-grown tone at its best

Hamstead Soundworks

A pair of unsuspecting Cambridgeshire-based industrial units play host to a rising force in British hand-built guitar amplification – Guitarist pops into Hamstead HQ for a cuppa…

Pocket Rocket

The Helix family expands with its smallest member yet – a true stompbox that will easily fit on your pedalboard

Billy Gibbons

Following the rhythmic experimentation of 2015’s Perfectamundo, the Reverend Willy G has gone back to basics with an 11-track time machine that recalls the glory of 70s ’Top. Here, the man behind Pearly Gates talks influences, gear and recalls that time BB King told him to change his strings…