Dave Burrluck
Dave Burrluck is one of the world’s most experienced guitar journalists, who started writing back in the '80s for International Musician and Recording World, co-founded The Guitar Magazine and has been the Gear Reviews Editor of Guitarist magazine for the past two decades. Along the way, Dave has been the sole author of The PRS Guitar Book and The Player's Guide to Guitar Maintenance as well as contributing to numerous other books on the electric guitar. Dave is an active gigging and recording musician and still finds time to make, repair and mod guitars, not least for Guitarist’s The Mod Squad.
Latest articles by Dave Burrluck

By Dave Burrluck Published
Having launched two very impressive FullerTone models last year, Eastman delivers another – the first with an offset vibrato and oh-so hipster style

By Dave Burrluck Published
PRS’s under-the-radar Fiore, the signature guitar of Mark Lettieri, gets a dual humbucking makeover and packs serious punch

By Dave Burrluck Published
Along with the punk classic Les Paul Junior double-cut, the twin pickup Special is now readily available from Gibson USA. It might be stripped down but it’s a great platform for its two P-90s.

By Dave Burrluck Published
With a raft of recent high-spec reissue launches, is Epiphone now the home of affordable ‘vintage’ Gibsons? On paper, yes. But what about in the flesh?

By Dave Burrluck Published
Epiphone's latest collaboration with Joe Bonamassa sets its sights on his rare-finish, P-90-equipped 1955 Gibson Les Paul

By Dave Burrluck Published
Gibson hasn’t forgotten the working musician with this refreshed version of the classic Les Paul Studio for 2024

By Dave Burrluck Published
On the eve of their 40th Anniversary in 2025, PRS unleash the best SE model yet!

By Dave Burrluck Published
A quality-led, UK-made offset at an affordable price

By Dave Burrluck Published
Another skeleton from PRS’s past reimagined for today

By Dave Burrluck Published
Overdue update of Yamaha’s long-running super-S. Worth the wait?

By Dave Burrluck Last updated
A hugely tidy build, the LX1E is again unbound and the top's chamfered edge creates a rather thick-looking impression that looks a little unfinished against the Taylor Mini-E.

By Dave Burrluck Last updated
Travel guitars are supposed to be as cheap as chips, aren't they – something to take to a festival or the beach?

By Dave Burrluck Last updated
Cort, like the majority of huge Asian brands, offers a diverse range of guitars

By Dave Burrluck Last updated
The latest from Godin's Core stable

By Dave Burrluck Last updated
Yes, you've seen the acoustic Viator before, but this new version in Paul Brett's signature Vintage range is an electro with USB output.

By Dave Burrluck, Guitarist Published
"In a market saturated by the designs of yesteryear, Music Man and Omar Rodríquez- López create something a lot more original"

By Dave Burrluck Published
Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...
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