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A guitar that looks like it punches above its £249 price, so I gigged it: Mooer MSC20 Pro review
By Pete Emery published
Known for innovation and pushing boundaries, Mooer takes a step into the more traditional and challenges the established brands at their own game with its take on a classic shape

A Starmaster is born: Fender Japan sticks Starcaster headstock on a Jazzmaster for new hybrid offset
By Jonathan Horsley published
Coolest hybrid ever or oddball offset experimentation gone wild?

“This Jag is one of the coolest cats around”: Fender Player II Jaguar review
By Jonathan Horsley published
Fender's cult-classic offset is remodelled again and could well be one of the most fun offsets we've played in recent memory

Joe Bonamassa and Gibson’s Tom Murphy join pro panel for video showing how to spot a fake Les Paul
By Jonathan Horsley published
Robert Baker puts a lot of guitar knowledge in one room to run the rule over a cheap and nasty counterfeit Gibson

Ken Lawrence on how he became James Hetfield's luthier and made some of his most iconic guitars
By Jonathan Horsley published
How did a specialist in custom-built bass guitars end up making some of the Metallica frontman's most-famous electrics? As it turns out, with a twist of fate and his Mesa/Boogie connection

Fender’s Justin Norvell on the $599 Standard Series and why it's not a Squier with a different decal
By Jonathan Horsley published
Fender’s EVP of product on who its new Indonesian entry-level series is for, what its critics are getting wrong, and why this is (probably) as affordable as the Acoustasonic is going to get

Gibson unveils Murphy Lab replica of Eric Clapton’s “Disraeli Gears” 1958 Les Paul Custom
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Cream of the crop for collectors, this forensic reproduction ships with a second pickguard signed by Slowhand and Lee, a custom Duck Brothers case and a lot of mojo

Johnny Marr says satin finishes have no business being on a guitar neck
By Jonathan Horsley published
Gloss is boss in Marr's book as he reveals his six-string pet peeve

Plini shows us his modded signature Strandberg Boden, but what’s that hiding in the tremolo springs?
By Jonathan Horsley published
Plini was hanging around at ArcTanGent 2024 waiting for his set to start. We asked him what was new with his Strandberg, pointed a camera at him, and this is what he told us....
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