Dave Burrluck

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

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Gibson Tamio Okuda Signature 1959 ES-330

By Dave Burrluck Published

Signature sound…

Electric Guitars
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Fender Custom Shop's Todd Krause: how I built the Last Waltz Stratocaster

By Dave Burrluck Published

Recreating very famous guitars to the finest detail is all part of a day’s work for Fender Custom Shop Master Builder Todd Krause. But just how difficult was the Last Waltz Stratocaster to pull off?

Electric Guitars
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John Page Classic Ashburn Special

By Dave Burrluck Published

A Classic cut

Electric Guitars
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PRS 509

By Dave Burrluck Published

Take five

Electric Guitars
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John Page Classic Ashburn HSS

By Dave Burrluck Published

Snapping at Fender’s heels

Electric Guitars
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Rivolta Combinata Deluxe Trem

By Dave Burrluck Published

Retro Deluxe

Electric Guitars
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Fender American Professional Telecaster Deluxe Shawbucker

By Dave Burrluck Published

A Shaw thing

Electric Guitars
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Fender American Professional Jaguar

By Dave Burrluck Published

The Jaguar finally joins the Professional range

Electric Guitars
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Reverend Tricky Gomez RT

By Dave Burrluck Published

Original design, keen pricing and stage ready - what’s not to like?

Electric Guitars
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PRS CE 24 Semi-Hollow Reclaimed Limited

By Dave Burrluck Published

A semi-solid, 24-fret bolt-on using woods you’ve never heard of? Welcome to PRS’s ‘Reclaimed Limited’ CE 24

Electric Guitars
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Fender American Professional Jazzmaster

By Dave Burrluck Published

Retro, revisited

Electric Guitars
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Fender Custom Shop Limited Edition Heavy Relic El Diablo Stratocaster

By Dave Burrluck Published

We get our hands on this long-awaited Strat

Electric Guitars
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Fret-King Corona 'Fluence'

By Dave Burrluck Published

Innovative to the core

Electric Guitars
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Lucem Paradox Custom

By Dave Burrluck Published

Riders on the storm

Electric Guitars
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Gordon Smith GS-1 60

By Dave Burrluck Published

Best of British

Electric Guitars
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Fret-King Esprit V 'Fluence'

By Dave Burrluck Published

Fluence pickups and hugely competitive prices

Electric Guitars
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Cort Sunset Nylectric

By Dave Burrluck Published

A forward-thinking design from Cort

Acoustic Guitars
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Bohemian Oil Can Guitar

By Dave Burrluck Published

Bohemian like you

Guitars
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Fret-King Country Squire 'Fluence'

By Dave Burrluck Published

Fret-King joins up with Fishman for this beaut

Electric Guitars
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Knaggs Severn X T3

By Dave Burrluck Published

Seventh heaven

Electric Guitars
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Supro Coronado II

By Dave Burrluck Published

Supro gets back in the guitar market

Electric Guitars
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Shergold Masquerader 3

By Dave Burrluck Published

An icon returns

Electric Guitars
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Ernie Ball Music Man St Vincent

By Dave Burrluck Published

A Music Man with Annie Clark’s seal of approval

Electric Guitars
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Supro Dual-Tone

By Dave Burrluck Published

Supro guitars return after nearly half a century

Electric Guitars
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Shergold Masquerader 2

By Dave Burrluck Published

Welcome back to a cult UK series

Electric Guitars
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