TG’s all about celebrating the winners of our Readers Awards 2008 this issue, so it’s only fitting that we offer you – the voters! – a prize of brain twitching proportions.

The axe crafting legends at Fender GBI (www.fender.co.uk/01342 331700) have kindly given us the guitar that quashed all of its competition: the Fender Jim Root Telecaster worth £699.

The Slipknot #4 man’s signature Tele nailed the Hottest Guitar award for good reason: equipped with EMG 60 and 81 active humbuckers, a C-shaped 25.5-inch scale maple neck and a mahogany body, the Jim Root model is designed to deliver a brutally heavy tone.

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PLEASE NOTE: Under 16s must obtain parental consent to enter this competition and be able to demonstrate this to Total Guitar's reasonable satisfaction