Spending too much money on your electric guitar(s)? Going through pickups like there’s no tomorrow and finding you still can’t nail the p...

Yesterday, I was discussing tight manufacturing budgets on low-priced 1970s guitars . Today I want to stay with that theme, but delve even...

Neon Pink Cellophane was one of the standard finishes for DiMarzio Strat bodies and necks in 1987. The Shock Wave pickup set and active jac...

Problem... On an electric guitar with multiple pickups, the vibration of the strings is greater above the neck pickup than it is above th...

If the title of this piece was based purely on anecdotal evidence, I wouldn’t need to write another word. The number of guitarists who’ve...

Whilst trawling through the obscurities of the 1980s the other day, I was reminded of another long-forgotten facet of the period’s UK rock g...

Since the 1980s, it’s been possible to walk into a guitar shop and come out with pretty much any type of guitar pickup you could imagine....

A replacement Stratocaster pickup sitting atop a page in the 1987 DiMarzio pickups catalogue. DiMarzio pioneered the replacement pickup ind...

Given the ever-present demand among guitarists for highly specific sonic characteristics, it can seem incredible today that it took such a l...

The Fender Custom Shop American ‘50s Stratocaster pickups originated in the mid 1990s, and were subsequently rebranded Custom ‘54s (also...

There's plenty about the actual guitars already on this site, but I thought I'd make this brief post to summarise the appearance and...

Ever since I first tried one of these in the latter half of the 1980s, I’ve been a devotee. The Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro (APS-1 Stagge...

Fender’s Texas Special pickups were developed around two decades ago, in a bid to help capture the sound of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s ‘Number ...

A Seymour Duncan replica of the original design Vintage Staggered Stratocaster pickup. If you've landed on this page whilst sear...

Since the late ‘eighties I’ve seen myself as someone who’s obsessed with the sound, look and feel of his guitars , to the point where I’ve...