When the market for vintage electric guitar replicas set light around the end of the 1970s, manufacturers of retro-spec Telecasters were ...

Showing the model code 10-0909, a Fender USA '62 Vintage Reissue Stratocaster inspection tag from March 2nd 1990. How obsessive are y...

Is there a warmer finish anywhere on Earth? Candy Apple Red in all its glory on a Stratocaster, complete with the 1960s fashion statement o...

If ever you find yourself staring at a seemingly bog-standard Korean Squier Telecaster with a CN5 or CN6 serial number, you may not realis...

THE CONTENDERS A vintage Gibson ES-355 . A lavish, high-spend product, made in 1972, and sitting at the top end of Gibson’s range of thi...

Daphne Blue was one of three finishes available on the first Squier Affinity Teles to hit the UK market – the other two being Black, and wh...

The Fender Broadcaster may have been a beautiful blonde bombshell, but for decades it sat at the centre of guitar history's greatest my...

In some ways, the 1980s ruined the Fender copy market . In the 1970s, even the sub-£100 guitars were made in Japan. And working on their o...

The wonderfully simple single-pickup Fender Esquire, in its early 1950s format with butterscotch blonde finish. Why did this one-pickup gui...

The late 1960s period was a fascinating one for Fender, and particularly the Telecaster. Heavy rock was emerging from the blues boom and t...

A 1950s design Fender Telecaster. The ultimate utilitarian guitar? The man behind the Fender guitar brand – Leo Fender – is hailed as a ...

I won’t be flying off on a 3,000-word special for this one. The idea is simply to answer one very commonly asked question: “ Which will su...

In this post I’m looking at a problem which has cropped up in forum posts, on the search engines, and elsewhere. But I believe the solutions...

I first saw The Fender ‘Jerry Donahue’ Telecasters advertised in a UK magazine in mid April 1992, so presumably they arrived in the shop...

Ah, whatever happened to the good old Japanese Squier Telecaster of the mid to late 1980s?… Well actually, not an awful lot. Far from dying ...

Whilst the subject of this retrospective was made twenty years ago, it replicates an instrument built in the dim and distant post-war dec...

For this piece I’ve assembled a historical snapshot of a classic and much loved range of guitars: namely, the Fender MIJ (Made in Japan) exp...

Whilst Fender ’s Made in Japan Vintage Reissue Stratocasters were carrying non-authentic pickups with moulded plastic bobbins by the late ...

This is a completely mint Japanese made reissue of an early 1969 Fender Telecaster Thinline . A guitar for diehard Fender fans, who want th...

The guitar after some modification, sporting a nitro-cellulose refinished sea foam green body, and some replacement parts. I must formall...