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Fender Mary Kaye Stratocaster: As the very first ‘Mary Kaye’ spec Stratocaster, it’s fitting that it came with a small collection of the guitarist’s ephemera.

Is this the holy grail of all holy grail Fender Stratocasters?

By Huw Price published

Only two features distinguished a Mary Kaye Stratocaster from any other Strat that might have rolled off Fender’s production line during the mid-to-late 1950s. So why are vintage examples so darn valuable?

Electric Guitars
Dinosaural Hypoid Drive

“Runs the gamut from boost through to fuzz-flavoured distortion”: Dinosaural Hypoid Drive review

By Trevor Curwen published

Dan Coggins makes the drive section of his award-winning Cogmeister powerhouse available as a pedal of its own

Guitar Pedals
Teemu Mänysaari performs live with Megadeth, in front of some guitar cabinets with industrial metal grilles.

“Dave helped us understand how to make a good Megadeth album”: Teemu Mäntysaari on the making of Megadeth’s final album

By Andrew Daly published

Mäntysaari says Dave Mustaine's last hurrah was a very modern collaboration built upon the established principles of Megadeth's sound

Guitarists
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy [on the white Telecaster] perform on Late Night with Seth Myers.

How a Chicago alt-rock stalwart and Hollywood A-lister put together a supergroup to celebrate their favorite records

By Jon Wiederhorn published

You might know Jason Narducy from playing bass with Bob Mould. You might recognize Michael Shannon, too. He’s in the movies. But they are also in band, and are celebrating R.E.M.’s Lifes Rich Pageant in concert. Narducy tells GW how it all went down

Guitarists
A man records a dreadnought acoustic guitar with a pair of condenser mics

How to record acoustic guitars at home – and why you need a dedicated setup

By Michael Watts published

Recording acoustic guitars at home can be frustrating and rewarding in equal measure – but it doesn't need to be. Here’s how to get started, and how to get great results

Acoustic Guitars
B.B. King [left] cups his hands to his ear as he asks the crowd for more. Joe Bonamassa, with a Les Paul, gives his crowd a thumbs up.

“I met him in 1990 when I was 13 years old. We became lifelong friends”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to B.B. King

By Joe Bonamassa published

Bonamassa says King was the kind of player who could say it all with one note – “Just one stinging vibrato and you know it can only be him”

Artist Lessons
Ivison Dakota Standard in Cadillac Green photographed against its cream-covered Hiscox hard-shell guitar case.

Guitarists are looking for more bang for their buck – but does the cheaper guitar always mean better value?

By Dave Burrluck published

With so much choice and range in price, is it getting harder to know the true worth of a potential purchase?

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Guitars
Steve Hackett plays a chord on his heavily modified Goldtop

Players like Steve Hackett are masters of extended chords/harmony – here’s how you can use them too

By Richard Barrett published

Today in extended chords 101, we look at 11th chords – both minor and major – and explain how these “harmonically dense” voicings look on the fretboard

Lessons
The Boss XS Poly Shifter Series takes pitch-shifting pedals to new extremes with the compact XS-1 and the treadle-equipped XS-100

How Boss reimagined the wildest effect on your pedalboard

By Henry Yates published

Boss's Matt Knight gives us the lowdown on the XS-1 and XS-100 Poly Shifter series, the pitch-shifting pedals that put the DigiTech Whammy on notice

Guitar Pedals
Lenny Kravitz and Craig Ross jam it out together onstage

Lenny Kravitz and Craig Ross on how big dreams and gourmet tones shaped a ’90s rock classic – and why modern gear has nothing on vintage

By Mark McStea published

30 years ago, the soulful rocker recorded Circus, his most guitar-heavy album. Kravitz and fellow guitarist Craig Ross take a look back at a suite of songs born of jams, soundchecks and dreams

Guitarists
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