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First Look: PRS Studio

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Reader Guitar of the Month: A Strat Comes Full Circle
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Reader Guitar of the Month: A Strat Comes Full Circle

First Look: Fender Brent Mason Telecaster
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First Look: Fender Brent Mason Telecaster

B-bender, mini-bucker, and copious switching options make this session master's signature Telecaster a twanging tone chameleon.

First Look: Fender American Professional II Stratocaster
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First Look: Fender American Professional II Stratocaster

The world’s most iconic electric evolves again—this time with a roasted pine body, contoured heel, rolled fretboard edges, and more articulate pickups.

How Could Guitars with Names Like These Not Be Amazing?
Electric Guitars

How Could Guitars with Names Like These Not Be Amazing?

Meet the Custom Kraft Beat Blaster, Agitator, Bone Buzzer, and Groover!

Surf with a Space-Age Samurai
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Surf with a Space-Age Samurai

Up close and personal with a mint-condition 1968 Yamaha SG-5.

Will Ray’s Bottom Feeder: Scoring a King T-Stang
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Will Ray’s Bottom Feeder: Scoring a King T-Stang

Three offers and a partial refund—the beginning of a beautiful 6-string friendship.

How to Get the Most out of Hum-Sing-Hum Wiring
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How to Get the Most out of Hum-Sing-Hum Wiring

This circuit lets you get HSH and SSS-like tones from a single guitar.

Fender Celebrates with 70th Anniversary Esquire
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Fender Celebrates with 70th Anniversary Esquire

Leo Fender's first solidbody was released in 1950 and the new anniversary model will feature a Tim Shaw-designed Esquirebridge pickup inspired by an original '50 Esquire from Songbirds Museum in Chattanooga, TN.

Fender Announces the Stories Collection Brent Mason Telecaster
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Fender Announces the Stories Collection Brent Mason Telecaster

One of the most-recorded guitarists gets the spitting-image signature treatment on his heavily-modified 1967 solidbody.

First Look: Fender Player Duo-Sonic
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First Look: Fender Player Duo-Sonic

A streamlined, short-scale solidbody that spans Stratocaster tones and Telecaster simplicity.

A Thick Body Rick Classic in Perfect Fireglo
Vintage Vault

A Thick Body Rick Classic in Perfect Fireglo

This 381 from 1970 also features then-new Hi-Gain single-coil pickups.