Classic gear: Fuzz Faces By Rod Brakes The classic '60s fuzz that hasn’t stopped smiling since the Summer of Love
Classic gear: Gibson ES-350T By Rod Brakes The history of the revolutionary thinline hollowbody that became a leading voice in rock ’n’ roll
The history of the Sola Sound Tone Bender By Rod Brakes Tone Bender builder David Main of D*A*M cleans up the fuzzy picture of these classic British stompboxes
Classic gear: Fender Electric XII By Rod Brakes The story behind every '60s studio's not-so-secret weapon – an electric 12-string that played well and sounded even better
Classic gear: Gibson CF-100E By Rod Brakes This cutaway electric flat-top set a template for modern acoustic design
Classic gear: Gibson ES-345 By Rod Brakes The history of the stereo guitar that promised “new magic to your music”
Classic gear: Gibson Trini Lopez Standard By Rod Brakes The story of the classic signature model that offered a new twist on Gibson's semi-hollow designs
Classic gear: Gibson Flying V By Rod Brakes Futuristic in both design and success, the Flying V was ahead of its time
Everything you need to know about Gibson Non-Reverse Firebirds By Rod Brakes The 'bird that never quite flew was a radical new angle for '60s Gibson design
The history of Martin's earliest acoustic guitar designs, from the 1800s to the early 1900s By Rod Brakes Historic hardware: Martin & Co’s museum and archives specialist Jason Ahner guides us through some pivotal 19th and 20th-century Martins
Classic gear: the enduring legacy of the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi By Rod Brakes From Hendrix to Gilmour, this iconic fuzz pedal has been delivering for decades
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
