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Harley Benton just put a Vega-Trem on YouTuber Carlos Asensio's $700 signature guitar: is this the best-value S-style on the market?
By Jonathan Horsley published
HSS Tesla pickups with coil-split, roasted maple neck, rolled fingerboard edges, Luminlay side markers... this is on tricked-out S-style – and then you have the Vega-Trem

“These are classy sounds with no danger of single coil hum... a near-perfect function-gig guitar”: PRS Fiore HH Satin review
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

“Virtually every sound I conjure recalls a classic player or style”: Gibson Les Paul Special Double Cut review
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.

Tom Morello’s favourite 'Arm the Homeless' electric guitar has just been recreated by Fender
By Jonathan Horsley published
We have all seen this guitar. We have all heard it. Now we can buy it, and it has the same off-brand build and graphic finish as the original

"Just as good as many affordable Squier, Epiphone, or Yamaha guitars I’ve played": Cort G200SE review
By Matt McCracken published
Cort's beginner-friendly S-type shows just how far beginner guitars have come in the last 20 years

“Nobody can play better than that guy, man!”: Steve Morse on the supernatural powers of Petrucci, Johnson and Blackmore
By Jonathan Horsley published
His new Steve Morse Band album Triangulation is an audacious work of instrumental rock

Adrian Belew on how he and Seymour Duncan made one of the first relic’d guitars
By Jonathan Horsley published
The prog guitar icon has posted new pics taken by Seymour Duncan that show off their handiwork as they turned Belew's new Strat into a relic and started guitar's most controversial trend

Fender and Jackson celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with limited run signature collection
By Jonathan Horsley published
Choose your fighter, Maiden fans, with four variations on the archetypical Superstrat including a Custom Shop doozy... And it is foot on the monitor time with that Harris P-Bass

Who needs the £10,499 Gibson Dave Grohl signature DG-335 when the excellent Epiphone version is just £777 today?
By Rob Laing published
This is a call to all Foo Fighters and semi-hollow fans

Jeff Beck's 1954 Oxblood Les Paul is the most expensive Les Paul of all time. This Epiphone version comes in at a fraction of the price, and with a further 20% off at Thomann, it may be an irresistible deal for the Jeff Beck aficionado
By Pete Emery published
Inspired by the iconic guitar, Epiphone's Jeff Beck Oxblood Les Paul allows fans to get a little bit closer to the guitar icon. Thomann knocks 20% off the guitar for Cyber Monday
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