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What is this mangled Telecaster we see before us? There's a whiff of the Wild West about the guitar's name, which suits the Telecaster-derived style - or the ML3 in [...]

While technically different as far as actual body outline and headstock goes, this guitar makes us all think 'Gibson SG', doesn't it? Back in the day, it was the shape [...]

A little over 45 years ago, a then pretty unknown Englishband released a self-financed album called Outlandos d'Amour. It had been recorded out of hours at a small studio in [...]

PJD CUSTOM CAREY ELITE & CAREY CUSTOM [pounds sterling]3,199 & [pounds sterling]2,699 CONTACT PJD Guitars PHONE 07891201729 WEBwww.pjdguitars.com What You Need To Know 1 These look more expensive than the [...]

GIBSON CHARLIE STARR LES PAUL JUNIOR & EPIPHONE CORONET (USA COLLECTION) [pounds sterling]1,769 & [pounds sterling]1,599 CONTACT Gibson & Epiphone PHONE 00800 44427661 WEB www.gibson.com www.epiphone.com What You Need To [...]

VINTAGE REVO SERIES CUSTOM SUPREME & TRIO [pounds sterling]749 & [pounds sterling]449 If something a little different is what you're after then this Vintage REVO range will be more than [...]

As we documented back in our Blueprint feature in issue 509, Ted Newman Jones III has a unique place in rock 'n' roll history. A fledgling guitar maker and modder, [...]

POWERS ELECTRIC A-TYPE [pounds sterling]3,899 CONTACT Powers Electric WEB www.powerselectricguitars.com You might think that Taylor Guitars' master guitar designer, Andy Powers, would struggle to find the time to kick off [...]

Let's be honest, it's pretty easy to trace most new guitar designs back to a few classic guitars: the usual suspects. Everywhere you look there are 'inspired by' or pretty [...]

There's always been a show-off element to Gretsch guitars and this new Pristine Jet is no exception. It comes in two blue metallics as well our rather classy top-edge bound [...]

Has PRS gone a little bolt-on mad? Well, certainly in the Indonesian-made SE line, it's bolt-ons that have been the recent trend in terms of new releases. Only a little [...]

YAMAHA PROFESSIONAL PACP12 & STANDARD PLUS PACS+12M [pounds sterling]2,166 & [pounds sterling]1,259 CONTACT Yamaha Music Europe PHONE 0344 811 1116 WEB https://uk.yamaha.com What You Need To Know 1 More generic [...]

Whatever the reasons, we could suggest there's a bit of a trend emerging: the stripped-down, high-quality guitar that's far from hard on your income. It was the theme of our [...]

PRS S2 STANDARD 24 SATIN & VELA SATIN 1,925 [pounds sterling] & 1,999 [pounds sterling] CONTACT PRS Europe PHONE 01223 874301 WEB www.prsguitars.com What You Need To Know (1) These [...]

Ancoats' guitars are made by David Roberts in a converted shipping container in Pollard Yard, Manchester. 'It was an old parking lot or something, but it now has around 130 [...]

Gibson's long-running Les Paul Studio is the latest to get a Modern makeover. A valid new model or a minor refresh? Let's find out GIBSON LES PAUL MODERN STUDIO 1,999 [...]

This latest release from Manson Guitar Works comes in two body shapes with uncompromised playability and sound at an aggressive price. Prepare to be impressed! What's this? Is Manson Guitar [...]

ANCOATS GUITARS ARE made by David Roberts in a converted shipping container in Pollard Yard, Manchester, England. "It was an old parking lot," Roberts says of the location, "but it […]

Few British guitar makers have quite the backstory of Manson Guitar Works. It begins with Andy Manson, who built his first acoustic guitar aged 17. In the late '60s, Andy [...]

GORDON SMITH GRANDE & GEIST 1,999 [pounds sterling] each contact Gordon Smith Guitars phone 01933 391234 web www.gordonsmithguitars.com For many years, Gordon-Smith (the original company used a hyphen) was almost [...]

Used decades apart by Keith Richards and Billy F Gibbons, Newman guitars have a unique place in rock history. And thanks to a new enterprise, they're now being made in [...]

Plenty of very famous guitar brands have had plenty of different owners --their guitars quite possibly made on completely different continents to where they started. But not Gordon Smith. This [...]

Hot on the heels of the classic CE 24 launching in the SE line for 2024, this new satin Standard version loses the bling and drops the price. Yes, please! [...]

Can't afford a vintage Fender? Neither can we. So until we win the lottery, the' Vintera range' aims to satisfy our lust. Le't's jump on the' offse't train and go [...]

It's been a little quiet on the Godin front in recent months, but the Canadian giant announced a new UK distribution partner towards the end of 2023, so the expansive [...]

With guitars seemingly getting more expensive by the day, is a bespoke build now just a thing for the very well-off? We go in search of a more affordable route. [...]

We take advantage of the rare chance to get our hands on a Nik Huber guitar and celebrate 15 years of the stripped-down Krautster. Does guitar making get any better? [...]

Unlike the majority of large-scale manufacturers, Yamaha doesn't flood the market with new guitar models every five minutes. Last year's Revstar Mk II models came some seven years after the [...]

Having relaunched its Aurora model in 2023, co-designed by Billy F Gibbons, Cream T's latest addition is the entirely new 'super-S' style Polaris Custom. But where's the rockstar and the [...]

Two new Les Pauls are added to the Modern strand of Gibson's slowly expanding USA guitars with quite a specification and cost difference. Which one to go for? GIBSON LES [...]

Retrofit pickups have dominated our modding coverage over the past 12 months. While that's of little surprise bearingin mind the crucial effect they can have in upgrading or altering the [...]

PRS SE CE 24, SE SWAMP ASH SPECIAL & SE CUSTOM 24 QUILT 695 [pounds sterling], 979 [pounds sterling] & 1,079 [pounds sterling] CONTACT PRS Europe PHONE 01223 874301 WEB [...]

One of the worst kept secrets of 2023 was this Epiphone 'Greeny'. 'The Gibson USAs are great,' Kirk Hammett told us back in issue 499, 'but my favourite version of [...]

Announced much earlier in 2023, this new Surfliner Deluxe has been a long time coming. Worth the wait or has it gone off the boil? Let's take a look ... [...]

Named after a state route in Georgia, the 96 is Patrick James Eggle's now quite long-running answer to the souped-up Stratocaster. How does it fit into the empire? PATRICK JAMES [...]

Over the past few issues we've been looking at and listening to pickups from serious heavyweights: Fender, Gibson, EMG and Bare Knuckle. Dave Burrluck fancies a change... I've never owned [...]

It's been a while since we've heard from Shergold, but now the brand is back with a smartly dressed solidbody that also introduces a new, more affordable range. Let's go! [...]

[pounds sterling]1,499 The latest in a long line of cut-price Les Pauls, the Modern Lite, which for 2024 replaces the Les Paul Tribute and Les Paul Special Tribute models in [...]

It's rather hard to think of purposely aged guitars such as this as 'new'. After some months of using it, it's not even new-to-me any more and just seems part [...]

Not for the first time, part of this story starts with the legendary guitar hardware designer Trev Wilkinson. Just before Covid, Trev had shown us some DIY guitar kits that [...]

PRS's bolt-on guitars go back to the brand's very early history with the 1988 Classic Electric, but its first attempt to actually create a more Fender-style guitar came in the [...]

EPIPHONE LES PAUL JUNIOR [pounds sterling]469 To kick off the Junior style, this Epiphone-branded single-cut in its dark Tobacco Burst-only gloss looks suitably moody. It uses a 'Lightning Bar' compensated [...]

Yarde Guitars Tamar [pounds sterling]2,500 While he was studying as a furniture maker, James Yarde (the 'e' is silent), found it was necessary to learn 3D CAD (Computer Aided Design). [...]

COLT HS [pounds sterling]419 With a strong nod to the Mustang design, the Colt HS comes with hum/single Alan Entwistle-designed pickups and a Mustang-style vibrato, and uses okoume for the [...]

Jeff Beck's career with the hugely influential Yardbirds lasted from March 1965 to November '66. And while he's probably better remembered with a Stratocaster in his magical hands, this latest [...]

It's been a long time coming, but Seth Baccus's Argonaut is finally here and sets a new level for original offset design. Guitar-making rarely gets better than this! SETH BACCUS [...]

Aside from creating some very tidy (if highly derivative) designs, Vintage, the long-running house brand of UK distributor John Hornby Skewes, has a neat tie-up with the UK's Ben Court, [...]

Earlier this year, in issue 497, we were pleasantly impressed by Maybury's Cholla, a unique slice of original British-made craft and powered by a set of superb Sunbear pickups, also [...]

Modernist pickup maker turns its attention to the wild and wacky Fender Jazzmaster. Dave Burrluck gets his screwdriver out When a press release dropped into our inbox announcing a new [...]

Cream T's fledging guitar line-up was upended earlier this year, but now its core model, the Aurora, is back. A classic in the making? Let's find out CREAM T AURORA [...]