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GALLERY: Show Us Your Gear - #1 Guitars

In our inaugural Show Us Your Gear Gallery, we feature the go-to instruments of our readers.

"My #1 guitar is a Wasson guitar, Serial #1. I built it myself, by hand, from scratch, starting from chunks of select mahogany and quartersawn hard curly maple. I didn't even know how to play guitar when I built #1.I learned how to play on it and it is still my #1 guitar four years later. I have gone on to build custom hand made electric guitars for great musicians, including Felicia Collins of the CBS Orchestra, Late Show with David Letterman. But #1 will always be my #1 because it has soul and holds a special place in my heart. It features a solid mahogany body with red transparent laquer, solid hard flame maple 25.5"" scale neck with satin finish and graphite nut, 22 stainless steel frets, and ebony fretboard with Abalone dots. The pickups are a Seymour Duncan Jazz and JB with a 5-way switch, and the hardware is a Hipshot hardtail bridge and Sperzel locking tuners. - Kevin Wasson "

The ultimate hand-wired Tube Screamer from Ibanez is up for grabs! Enter the I Love Pedals giveaway today, and come back daily for extra entries!

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Building upon the foundation of the beloved Core Collection H-535, this versatile instrument is designed to serve as a masterpiece in tone.

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The high priest of prog-metal guitar, John Petrucci, is still finding new territory on his instrument.

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The legendary progressive-metal guitarist details the darkness—and the renewed camaraderie—that led to his band Dream Theater’s 16th full-length record, Parasomnia.

Some very important events happened in John Petrucci’s life in 2024. He celebrated an enormous milestone with his bandmates in prog-metal behemoth Dream Theater: They’ve been a band for 40 years. Many bands aren’t destined to last a single decade, let alone four. It’s a titanic personal and artistic achievement. And yet, that anniversary paled in significance next to another major development: The band wrote and created a new full-length record with founding drummer Mike Portnoy, who had been absent from Dream Theater since 2010.

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Watch the official video documenting the sold-out event at House of Blues in Anaheim. Join Paul Reed Smith and special guests as they toast to quality and excellence in guitar craftsmanship.

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