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Well if you’re looking for a cheap Telecaster-style guitar, your day just got way more exciting! Guitarfetish.com, or GFS as it is more well known, just added an exciting product to their Xaviere guitar line. Retailing at around $429, you can get these direct from GFS for only $229. Check them out here on theContinue reading “Guitarfetish.com releases new Xaviere PRO845 Thinline Teles”

Things are a bit slow right now, as I’m waiting for a few new guitars to actually arrive at my place for review. So new reviews will be out soon! In the meantime, I have not been able to get the Fender Powercaster out of my mind after watching flor’s lead singer Zach rock oneContinue reading “Fender Powercaster: The Next Guitar I Need To Review”

While I haven’t always said nice things about Glarry guitars in terms of quality, you really can’t beat them in value. Guitars range from like $60-80 and they work, which for a lot of people makes the instrument way more accessible. Are they “good” guitars? Eh, not really, but they do work and do soundContinue reading “Glarry Music Releases GTL Tele-Style Guitar for under $80”

Combining Summers’ love for guitar playing and photography, Fender’s latest signature model is finished with a collection of monochrome photos taken by The Police guitarist himself. Built by Dennis Galuszka in the Fender Custom Shop, this Stratocaster’s two piece alder body has a NOS urethane coating over the images, and a maple neck and fretboard.Continue reading “Check Out This New Andy Summers Signature Strat From Fender”

Every so often a guitarist or songwriter comes around who matches a signature instrument with their signature style. Historically, examples like Angus Young’s SG, Keith Richard’s “Micawber”, and David Gilmour’s Black Strat have sent guitar lovers rushing to the store to buy copies and replicas. However, less attention is often paid to the guitars ofContinue reading ““The Strat With the Lightning Strap”: The Story of Rivers Cuomo’s Warmoth Strat”

If you’ve ever bought after market pickups, you’ve likely heard of GFS, or Guitarfetish.com’s name brand pickups. These have been a bit of a controversial pickup option in the sense that you either love them or hate them. Many guitar modification gurus claim they are the best pickups dollar for dollar, as they are incrediblyContinue reading “How Easy are the GFS Kwik-Plug Pickups to Install?”

Recently, we took a look at the uber affordable Glarry GST3, a $60 Stratocaster alternative available online through Amazon.com. While a functional guitar at that price is a great deal, let’s take a look at a few ways we can make the guitar more playable and hopefully better sounding. Without doing any soldering or drillingContinue reading “5 Quick Ways to Upgrade a Cheap Stratocaster (Without Soldering)”

As much as you may convince yourself that it takes perfect skill matched with perfect gear to achieve professional level performance, that’s not the whole story. More often than not, the guitar heroes you idolize today practiced, played, or wrote their hits on cheap instruments. In fact, many of today’s modern musicians still rely onContinue reading “A Detailed Look Into Inexpensive Instruments Used by the Pros”

As someone who always wanted to learn to build guitars, I naturally started by trying to assemble a kit. My first kit ever came from thefretwire.com, and was the ES-335/Trini Lopez model pictured in the About page. That guitar proved to be incredibly challenging and trying to wire a semi-hollow body guitar as my firstContinue reading “5 Reasons You Should Assemble a DIY Guitar Kit”

Guitar gear can be a tricky topic in the music world, some musicians have one guitar they’ve used their whole life, it’s comfortable, familiar, and it sounds like them. Some use a few, or as many as a dozen different guitars on one album or one tour. Even amateurs will often be loyal to theirContinue reading “Never Get Rid of Your First Guitar”