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Bohlinger Builds a Stellar Strat and Tests 2 Maple Necks

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Follow along as we build a one-of-a-kind Strat featuring top-notch components, modern upgrades, and classic vibes. Plus, see how a vintage neck stacks up against a modern one in our tone test. Watch the demo and enter for your chance to win this custom guitar!



Enter by March 18 for your chance to win!

Want to build your own? Use these parts:

Licensed Fender Necks and Bodies from StewMac: https://stewmac.sjv.io/POKaaY

Seymour Duncan Hot Chicken Pickups: https://seymour-duncan.sjv.io/APmKK1

Tube Amp Doctor Wiring Kits: https://www.tubeampdoctor.com/en/parts-for-guitars...

AxLabs Tone Claw: https://axlabshardware.com/products/axlabs-tone-cl...

AxLabs String Surfer Saddle: https://axlabshardware.com/products/string-surfer-...

Ax Labs Strat-Style Switch Tip: https://axlabshardware.com/collections/switch-tips...

PureTone Output Jack: https://puretonetechnologies.com/

GraphTech Ratio Tuners: https://graphtech.com/pages/ratio-machine-heads

LeRockskin Selvaggia Strap: https://www.lerockskin.com/shop/selvaggia/

Reunion Blues Expedition Series Gig Bag: https://reunionblues.com/collections/expedition-se...

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Jack White's 2025 No Name Tour features live tracks from his album No Name, with shows across North America, Europe, the UK, and Japan.

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A dose of magic gain potion.

Works like a little vial of magic gain potion. Fattens without obscuring individual frequency bands.

None.

$129

Solodallas SVDS Boost
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The Schaeffer-Vega Diversity Systemā€”an early and very successful wireless systemā€”excelled at the tasks it was designed for. But there was more magic than met the eye. Though designed to sound as transparent as possible, it nonetheless colored the signal in a way that people like Angus Young and Eddie Van Halen found essential.

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Learn about this iconic guitar's journey, its mods done by Frank, and hear how it sounds in the hands of his son Dweezil.


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Neil Youngā€™s ā€™70s hits are some of the most recognizable radio rock jams of all time. But Neilā€™s guitar playing continued to grow over the ensuing decades, as he traversed styles from blues to country to electronic to rockabilly and beyond, eventually developing one of the most tonally decadent, fully formed improvisational voices in the entire guitar universe.

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