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“A dream that’s been years in the making”: Harley Benton joins the relic bandwagon with $238 hand-aged guitars

The Thomann-owned guitar maker has released Light Aged and Heavy Aged versions of its S-type, T-type and offset electric guitars

Guitar World

“I remember one really beautiful Fender Stratocaster – I watched in horror as he destroyed it during the encore”: Jimi Hendrix's roadie explains why the icon smashed his guitars

Eric Barrett was Hendrix's guitar tech during his heyday – and witnessed the legend's guitar-smashing antics firsthand

Guitar World

Abbey Road photography exhibition ‘explores almost a century of music history’

It will also offer a ‘rare opportunity’ to see photographs of items from the Abbey Road collection which have never been exhibited.

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“The original owner was a schoolteacher. It had been under her bed for 15 years in its case”: How a forgotten 1969 Jazz Bass became the go-to studio instrument for one of London’s top session bassists

Sam Dixon’s bass collection also includes a 1967 Silverstone Dolphin, a Harmony H2 from 1964, and a pre-CBS Fender P-Bass

Guitar World

Fender Japan reimagines the hits with the Active Modern series – let’s hope the US branch is taking notes

New neck heels, body binding and Turbo Tone Boost functions have been rolled out across the new range

Guitar World

“What really sets the Beam Mini apart is that you also get access to a humongous range of amp captures”: Blackstar Beam Mini review

Blackstar expands its Beam series with afeature‑packed ultra-compact amp

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“I gave Eddie Van Halen the parts, and the next time I saw the guitar he had used a spray can to paint it white with black stripes”: How Charvel spawned a custom shop revolution – and became the premier guitar maker in the age of shredders

Wayne Charvel's namesake brand started life as a small parts and repair facility and ended up building guitars played by the biggest virtuosos on the planet

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Remembering Wayne Charvel, the visionary luthier and Superstrat pioneer who built guitars for Deep Purple, ZZ Top and Eddie Van Halen – and started the hot-rod revolution that changed the world

The Charvel founder and legendary custom builder for guitar's biggest names has died, aged 85

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“Gibson would have been aware of the popularity of Fender vibratos and maybe considered Bigsbys to be too expensive or too closely associated with Gretsch. Either way, the company devised its own”: What this Golden Era ’63 SG tells us about Gibson design

The Les Paul Standard may be the most iconic and the ES-335 the most versatile, but the SG remains Gibson’s greatest commercial success

Guitar World

“His impact will live on for generations”: Wayne Charvel, legendary luthier who built guitars for Eddie Van Halen and gave rise to the Superstrat, dies aged 85

The revered guitar builder was one of the most influential modders and makers of his time, and sparked the custom shop revolution

Guitar World

“Ihad to make sure he had all the tones he needed – the intro to Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love is like taking a flint and stone to make a spark”: How a glam-metal guitarist built Joe Satriani an amp that captured Eddie Van Halen’s tone

3rd Power’s Dylana Nova Scott leaned on an impressive production background to design boutique amps for some of the biggest names in the biz

Guitar World

“I heard this car come roaring up… Jeff’s coming out and he’s holding this guitar. He said, ‘Here, this is yours for getting me in the Yardbirds’”: The story of the Fender Telecaster that unites Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page

How a gift of thanks from one Yardbird alumnus to another turned a guitar into a bona-fide icon

Guitar World

"It gives the Custom Shop ‘54 pickups in my own Strat a run for their money": Fender Vintera III Late '50s Stratocaster review

Fender sends a love letter to the golden age of guitars with an accessible vintage-inspired instrument

Guitar World

"Once I'm playing, the Hush X Live feels much more like a 'real' guitar than the novelty I was first expecting." Donner Hush X Live Pro review

An ambitious, affordable, and fully-loaded guitar that looks to be a one-stop shop for all your traveling needs

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“A rare and often overlooked chapter in amplifier history”: IK Multimedia makes 9 elusive lost era Fender amps available as a TONEX plugin

A total of 80 Tone Models based on Fender's ultra-rare brown-panel amps have been captured

Guitar World

“Thomann isn’t a small independent guitar builder... It is one of the world’s largest instrument retailers and the owner of one of Europe’s largest guitar brands”: Fender fires back at Thomann and sues for copyright infringement – read the full statement

Fender has filed an infringement action against Thomann after the Harley Benton owner took legal action against the guitar maker last month

Guitar World

“A full-bodied response that would undoubtedly work a treat with flat-wound strings”: Fender Vintera III Late ‘60s Precision Bass review

Fender's Vintera range receives another round of tweaks – and a new ‘60s-styled P-Bass

Guitar World

“A Strat gives me all the sounds I want. When I hear that tone, I’m like, ‘That's what a guitar is supposed to sound like’”: He’s jammed with Grace Bowers and collab’d with Cory Wong – now Devon Gilfillian wants to introduce “Nashville Soul” to the world

The Philly native’s new record, Time Will Tell, is “a soul album with little spices from the country spice cabinet” – and it’s loaded with guitar-work that's heavy, funky, weird, and, of course, soulful

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Now Fender hits Yamaha with a cease-and-desist as it widens legal campaign over Stratocaster copyright

The legal battle over the design of S-style guitars takes a Goliath vs Goliath turn...

Guitar World

Yamaha confirmed to be among Fender’s cease-and-desist targets

The largest musical instrument maker in the world has been drawn into the ongoing legal dispute over the Stratocaster

Bangkok Post

Fender escalates Stratocaster copyright fight, taking aim at Yamaha

Fender, the US maker of the iconic Stratocaster electric guitar played by Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, has widened its legal campaign to defend the guitar's design with a notice letter sent to Yamaha, the Japanese company told Reuters .

Guitar World

“Höfner offered me this weird-shaped guitar. I said, ‘What the hell is that?!’ They said, ‘It doesn't have a name yet, but we want you to try it’”: Hugh Cornwell on The Stranglers’ biggest hit, hating Twin Reverbs, and his bizarro Höfner

The punk/new-wave icon admits he’s never been certain about his guitar playing, although he’s proud of the legacy he’s left in music – and he’s not finished yet

Guitar World

“I always felt like Fender hit the sweet spot with those guitars. All my heroes – Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Knopfler, Buddy Guy – were playing them”: Philip Sayce on the greatest Strats, his tone secrets – and why he always has a Silver Sky in the mix

The tone gourmand talks new vs vintage Strats, hiring SRV's amp tech, and the guitar he calls Big Daddy

Guitar World

Fender hits used guitar store with cease-and-desist over alleged trademark infringement

Cool Old Guitars revealed it had received the letter in an Instagram post

Guitar World

“I started playing some of Steve Cropper's riffs to him and told him how much Soul Man influenced one of our songs. He giggled and was very tickled by that”: Jimmy James on taking Parlor Greens’ funky sound “to the cosmos”

Jimmy James’ spartan approach and tone propel funk-instrumental powerhouse Parlor Greens into the stratosphere – minus any parlor tricks

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