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• Reader's lives: Bigsby restringing tips

  Guitarist reaaders are evidently a resourceful lot, and have come up with plenty of solutions to the age-old problem of restringing a Bigsby-equipped guitar without a] doing your back in b] weakening and snapping countless strings at the ball ends or c] smashing your beloved axe to smithereens in a frustrated rage. Here are a few ideas:

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• Ronnie Wood’s luthier

  Kari Nieminen's Versoul guitars are some of the most exclusive made anywhere in the world. The Finnish luthier also has an impressive list of artists that own Versoul instruments including Kenny Burrell, Allan Holdsworth and Michael Landau. But...

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• Latest guitar innovation unfolds

  What madness is this, exactly? A guitar that folds in half without the need to restring it? Does not compute. Yet this latest take on the folding guitar, the Centerfold from Swedish company DeVillain now has a fancy website with an intriguing FAQ and plenty of pics to demonstrate it going through the motions:

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• New ESP basses

  We love ESP and LTD guitars at Guitarist and now you bass players can join the party: ESP have announced the introduction of no less than 30 new basses!

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• Morley's got the blends...

  Most of you will know Morley for its range of rugged wah-wah pedals, but the company has announced a new product that looks set to appeal to effects junkies looking to get a little more from their collection of stompboxes. The FX Blender provides an additional effects loop that can be blended into your signal via judicious use of its onboard treadle.

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• MIDLANDS GUITAR SHOW

  Building on the success of their Newcastle, Merseyside and Manchester guitar shows, the next venture for Northern Guitar Shows is a brand new event in the heart of England. The Midlands Guitar Show will take place at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure...

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• Trace Acoustic set to return

  A prototype Trace Acoustic 100 combo shown at the recent Frankfurt Musikmesse leads a second generation of Trace Acoustic amps, likely to be ready for an autumn launch. Still recognisably Trace and using Dynamic Correction circuitry, the amp incorporates many upgraded features that will be common across the range. These include footswitchable shape, phase, system mute and 6dB soloing boost, notching on each channel, a feedback-locating six-band master graphic EQ, and master volume with auto distortion suppression. A soft-knee auto-compressor is also built in. Digital FX include user-definable tap tempo delays and allow separate reverb levels to be applied to each channel.

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• Ace new bass backline on its way

  Ampeg’s hugely popular BassAmp combo series has become even more richly endowed with the addition of new BA300 and BA600 amplifiers.

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• AC/DC made easy

  Guitarists keen to brush up on their Malcolm and Angus Young should definitely check out the Riffology Of AC/DC book from Wise Publications. Ditching the ‘learn a whole song’ approach in favour of a breakneck tour through the AC/DC back...

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• Help – my guitar is being eaten!

  Problems with nitro-cellulose finishes?

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