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YouTube’s most adventurous luthier turns 50lbs of copper wire into a stunning bronze electric guitar
By Jonathan Horsley published
Burls Art has been doing Burls Art things again, with another build that pushes the boundaries of guitar design. Behold, the Steampunk Bronze, a true heavyweight T-style pushing 40lbs

Watch what happens when you play a Strat through a cranked Fender Super Reverb in an empty warehouse
By Jonathan Horsley published
Pedal Pawn’s Chris King Robinson conducts an experiment that shows how strange and magical things happen when you dime old tube amps in large, empty spaces

“The sound of this thing is really quite surprising”: Watch Robben Ford demo the 8W tube combo from the amp company that gives his Dumble a run for its money
By Jonathan Horsley published
Ford helped build the legend of Dumble amps but admits he is playing Little Walter amps “pretty exclusively” these days

“When people went in to look at the gear they went in on jet skis… So many people lost their guitars”: Peter Frampton says he lost 44 guitars in the 2010 Nashville flood
By Jonathan Horsley published
One of the guitars to survive the flood was Frampton's Epiphone Texan that he famously used to write Show Me The Way and Baby, I Love Your Way both on the same day

“Jimi once said he’d been imitated so well that people had even copied his mistakes”: Watch Nile Rodgers, Tom Morello, Rebecca Lovell and more celebrate 70 years of the Strat in an all-star cover of Voodoo Child
By Jonathan Horsley published
To mark the Stratocaster's 70th Anniversary, Fender got 10 of today's Strat players to pay tribute to its most famous player – and turn loose the wah – on a cover of Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Watch Billy F Gibbons jam Jimmy Reed’s Baby What You Want Me To Do on a Vintera II ‘70s Tele Deluxe with Matt Sweeney, Danielle Haim and Tim Montana
By Jonathan Horsley published
This very cool promo for Fender's Vintera II series finds the ZZ Top rock icon and his BFGs making like it's the ‘70s, striking up an irresistible groove on the electric blues pioneer's 1959 hit

“It just has this resonance to it that I saw someone describe as an angry piano”: Watch Idles’ Mark Bowen give a guided tour of his top three electric guitars
By Jonathan Horsley published
Featuring an acrylic super heavyweight with an metal neck, and the “twangy” baritone Strat that just rocked The Tonight Show and is all over Idles' forthcoming studio LP, Tangk

Learn to play the Led Zeppelin IV classic Rock And Roll on guitar
By Total Guitar published
Riffed, written and recorded in less than an hour, 'Rock And Roll' captured Led Zeppelin at their primeval no-messing best.
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