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Fender adding Beats President to Board
Luke Wood, president of Beats Electronics, will be joining Fender Music Group’s board of directors. Beats headphones are known for their sound, as well as their stylishness: they’ve been seen on...
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New Strats from Fender
Back in 1954, if you wanted to buy a Stratocaster, you just bought a Stratocaster—there was only one model. Today there are many, many different model (17 pages worth on Fender.com), but that’s ok: we...
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New Doc: 66 minutes of Mayer
In this age of inexpensive digital cameras, editing software and Youtube, almost anyone can become a filmmaker—which is precisely the problem. Every minute, another 100 hours of footage is uploaded to...
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Buy a Piece of Waylon
Waylon Jennings died 12 years ago, but his presence is still alive today, and not just with country music singers. In the early 1970s, Waylon flipped the bird at Nashville, all because he sought to...
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New Tom Petty Custom Acoustic Shop
When you think of Tom Petty, what guitar comes to mind? It’s a tough choice, because Tom has played many iconic axes over his 40-year career. Rickenbacker came out with his signature 12-string in the...
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New American Standard Strats
When Fender employees bought the company from CBS in 1985, they lost the Fullerton factory and ultimately set up shop in Corona, CA. One of the first things introduced was the American Standard Series...
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Hand Painted Strats for Charity
On November 1st, twenty American-made Strats will be auctioned off to raise money for Waves for Water, an organization that seeks to get clean water to every single person that needs it. The guitars...
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Dynaguide String Tree Keeps you in Tune
If you’re a regular user of the tremolo on your Strat, there’s a good chance you’ve had problems with your string tree. Those B and E strings have a tendency to bind up, causing tuning problems. That’s...
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Fender’s Pine Cone Strat: 550 Diamonds!
Attention plutocrats, oil barons, hedge fund managers, Warren Buffet: if you have a hefty chunk of cash weighing down your Sansabelts, and you’re sick and tired of buying Rembrandts, and you’re looking...
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New Artist Signature Strats for 2015
David Gilmour. Eric Clapton. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Yngvie Malmsteen. Ritchie Blackmore. Bonnie Rait. Even Avril Lavigne. They all have Fender signature models. And for us fans, it’s a chance to play the...
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Custom Shop Strat Lineup for 2015
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he cut the product line down from 350 to 10. His motto: “Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff.” But what if everything you make is...
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Fender: Only Making 500 of These
Sure, we may talk philosophically about limiting ourselves to just one guitar, and debate endlessly about what that guitar would be, but it’s all bunk because guitarists don’t live that way. We’re all...
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Journey’s Neal Schon Selling “Lights” Strat
The term “prodigy” gets thrown around too much these days, but if anyone deserves the title, it’s Neal Schon. He joined Santana at age 17, after rebuffing Eric Clapton’s offer to fill the late Duane...
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G&L Adds 70’s Muscle to its Lineup
1970 was a golden year for muscle cars in America. Back then, it was all about speed and power. A Dodge Challenger of that year had a sticker price of just $4,056, and it came loaded with a 426...
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Day of the Dead Strats from Fender
The Mexican Day of the Dead festival is known for its colorful artwork of skulls and skeletons, placed on altars to honor those who have died. Made of paper mache, flowers, or even sugar, these...
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Portraits of Texas Guitar Slingers
Now that the crowds have left SXSW 2015, Austin can go back to being the “Live Music Capital of the World.” That’s right—even though 2000 bands came from all parts of the world to play the festival,...
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Art Deco Pickguards from Decoboom
Andrew Bingham is obsessed with plastic. But not just any kind—he digs plastic products made in the 1940s and 1950s, things like bakelite radios, celluloid jewelry, and especially guitars. He finds...
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New 8W Amp from Mod Kits DYI
Looking for an excuse to grab the soldering iron, or to use one for the first time? Then check out the Mod 102+ from Mod Kits DIY, a vacuum tube American circuit with a British-style Class A output...
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B.B. King: September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015
“I was at the Apollo Theater one time, and there was a critic there, and to me what he said was one of the greatest compliments that people have given me. The critic wrote: ‘B.B. King sings, and then...
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2 Watts = Too Much Fun: The Percolator Amp
One day in the future, cars will drive themselves, iPhones will be installed in our brains, and solid state guitar amps will supposedly sound “better” than those with tubes. When that happens, I’ll...
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