The rise, fall and rediscovery of the Fender Jaguar By Rod Brakes From clean-cut surf to punk, the Jag is an offset with a lot of history. Guitar historian Martin Kelly unpacks its story
Classic gear: Gibson ES-225 By Rod Brakes The story behind the thinline hollowbodies that helped revolutionize Gibson design
Classic gear: Epiphone Riviera By Rod Brakes The history of Epiphone’s mini-’bucker-loaded thinline, which was the answer to Gibson’s PAF-toting ES-335
Classic gear: Maxon Overdrive and Ibanez Tube Screamer By Rod Brakes 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
Classic gear: Fender Reverb By Rod Brakes 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
Classic gear: Hofner Verithin By Guitarist editors With American guitars thin on the ground in the UK in the '50s, Hofner filled the thinline gap...
Classic gear: Ibanez Tube Screamer By Alex Lynham Everything you need to know about the world's most iconic overdrive pedal
Classic gear: Paul Cochrane Timmy By Alex Lynham One of the first boutique overdrive pedals, the Timmy has been endlessly cloned due to its fantastic sound and versatile tone-shaping options
Classic gear: Electro-Harmonix POG By Alex Lynham 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
Battle for the bass: the story of Fender and Gibson's fight for low-end supremacy By Rod Brakes 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
Classic Gear: the rise and fall of Gibson's Firebird III By Rod Brakes We take a look at the legendary automobile-inspired electric guitar
