Vintage Strats look as good as they sound. But don't ask Victoria Druggs to pose with one unless you wish to hear an extended repertoir...

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

Ohhhh yeahhhh! As Gibson themselves put it in 1970, the 1958-1960 sunburst Les Paul Standard design really was the “Daddy of 'em all”. ...

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...

The Fender Stratocaster is the world’s most popular guitar design, but how did it all begin? This piece looks, in a broad sense, at the Str...

The 1953 style of Les Paul Model, with P90 pickups and a stud bridge/tailpiece. Okay, so it’s only ‘ probably didn’t know’, but these fa...

Established in the post punk era of the late 1970s, the Encore brand of guitars has, over the years, stood for value in beginners’ instrumen...

I’ve just been reading a really interesting old interview with vintage guitar dealer Chris Trigg, as printed in the February 1995 edition of...

I’ve just been reading through some interesting old articles, dating back through the years as far as 1982, and looking at the vintage guita...

One question a lot of people have asked since I set up this site is: “ Why is a vintage guitar better than a new one? ” The very simple answ...

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