classic gear

Futuristic in both design and success, the Flying V was ahead of its time

The 'bird that never quite flew was a radical new angle for '60s Gibson design

Historic hardware: Martin & Co’s museum and archives specialist Jason Ahner guides us through some pivotal 19th and 20th-century Martins

From Hendrix to Gilmour, this iconic fuzz pedal has been delivering for decades

From clean-cut surf to punk, the Jag is an offset with a lot of history. Guitar historian Martin Kelly unpacks its story

The story behind the thinline hollowbodies that helped revolutionize Gibson design

The history of Epiphone’s mini-’bucker-loaded thinline, which was the answer to Gibson’s PAF-toting ES-335

That Pedal Show co-host Mick Taylor, Analog Man’s Mike Piera, and Tube Screamer circuit designer Susumu Tamura on one of the world's most popular and influential overdrive pedals

A new sound springs to life and makes a splash in the surf-rock scene - this is the story of Fender's iconic reverb unit

With American guitars thin on the ground in the UK in the '50s, Hofner filled the thinline gap...

Everything you need to know about the world's most iconic overdrive pedal

One of the first boutique overdrive pedals, the Timmy has been endlessly cloned due to its fantastic sound and versatile tone-shaping options

With the POG, polyphonic pitch-shifting finally arrived for the average player, and its great tones and superior tracking have cemented its place in pedal history

Gibson’s Mat Koehler and Fender historian Terry Foster on how two industry titans went head-to-head in search of the ultimate electric bass

We take a look at the legendary automobile-inspired electric guitar