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How to Keep Your Fretboard and Strings Slick and Fast By Gary Brawer A veteran tech dishes on how sliced salami, chapstick, or 3-in-1 oil can fix your sticky fretboard. Just don't use WD-40!
How Prince’s "Purple Rain" Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ Turned Up in a Minneapolis Music Store By Art Thompson Tracing the history of a very special amp.
Five Easy and Inexpensive Ways to Keep Your Gigging Guitar in Top Shape By Gary Brawer Taking care of your guitar is easier – and cheaper – than you might think.
Nine Things That Guitarists Get Wrong About Guitars By Gary Brawer An experienced guitar tech sets the record straight about guitarists’ biggest misconceptions.
Meet the SG-Teor — a Boutique Single-Cut Reimagining of an All-Time Classic By Dave Hunter Damian Probett irons out the kinks in the SG's design and adds bonus features, with stunning results.
Watch Fender “Pickup Artist” Abigail Ybarra Hand Wind an Esquire Bridge By Christopher Scapelliti Meet the woman behind 57 years of guitar tone.
Get an Up-Close Look at Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Number One” Strat in This Historic Video By Christopher Scapelliti A detailed look at the guitar SRV called his "first wife."
Classic Gear: Klemt Echolette S NG51 By Dave Hunter The little-known Klemt Echolette S NG51 tape echo makes a worthy comeback on the vintage market.
Found a Box of Spare Guitar Parts? Dinette Can Turn Them Into Something Equally Weird and Cool By Terry Carleton As a baritone guitar, this Dinette DIY Franken-Bari can take your tone to more interesting places than a real Vox Teardrop.
Watch a Guitar Get Made From Scratch in This Documentary By Jackson Maxwell For those who love guitars, woodworking, or both, this beautifully shot, hour-long film is pretty hard to beat.
