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NAMM 2024: "The most accurate recreations of the legendary Patent Applied For humbucker pickups ever made" – Gibson is selling '1959' PAFs
By Rob Laing published
The '59 sound for $999

Best electric guitar strings 2025: Sets for all styles and budgets
By Jonathan Horsley last updated
These are the very best guitar strings from Ernie Ball, D’Addario, Elixir, Rotosound and more

Seymour Duncan and Brandon Ellis team up for the Dyad Parallel Axis, a high-output humbucker that proves you don’t need active pickups for gnarly metal tone
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Black Dahlia Murder guitarist says the Dyad “offers a chewier, mid-range focused sound for guitarists looking for more body out of their instrument in standard tunings”

NAMM 2024: Monty's Guitars draws inspiration from Band Of Gypsys era Hendrix and a '58 Burst for its new Overspun PAF humbucker and Strat pickup sets
By Rob Laing published
A balance of vintage clarity and hot cut – designer Matt Gleeson explains all

An £85 short-scale S-style with a HSS pickup configuration, Harley Benton’s ST-Junior HSS SBK Standard Series might be the ultimate beginner electric guitar
By Jonathan Horsley published
The latest edition to Harley Benton's budget-friendly Standard Series is compact, friendly to growing hands, dirt cheap, has a super-versatile pickup configuration and looks pretty smart too

Manson Guitar Works announces its most affordable UK-made guitars to date with the "very high-spec" one-pickup MA and Verona Junior models
By Rob Laing published
Left-handed models are available too at no extra cost

See Marcus King demo Elixir® Strings by ripping on his three-pickup Les Paul Custom that's from 1958… and the 1970s!
By MusicRadar published
Marcus is touring with a weathered '58 body paired with a '70s neck and it sounds glorious

Peterson ups the spec for its new StroboClip HDC headstock guitar tuner
By Rob Laing published
High-definition screen, signature accuracy and Sweetened tunings make for a compelling combination
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