Guides

Their uneasy marriage of flamenco, surf, alt-rock and wildly discordant sonic mayhem inspired countless imitators, yet nobody has ever sounded quite like the Pixies. 

The best pedals for noise, experimentation and transformative sound design.

From Grant Green to Dave Grohl, legendary players in just about every genre have made judicious use of Gibson’s thinline hollowbodies and semis. Read on for our field guide to the most iconic thinline guitars from Gibson’s golden era.

It started out as a simple refret and respray but turned into a full restoration. Finally this 1965 Gibson Firebird I is ready to fly again.

One guitar to rule all of your gigs?

Routing template variations and neck fit can be the achilles heel of a Jaguar or Jazzmaster-inspired build but fear not, help is at hand.

Things are about to get a little hairy on your pedalboard.

Throwing aside guitar convention, Tom Morello’s inventive use of the instrument as a sonically enthralling, genre-mashing tool is a key element of Rage’s crossover appeal.

This 1965 non-reverse Firebird has really been through the wars, but it’s time to make it structurally stable, install the correct bridge and get it in the spray booth.

Sing the blues, send your amp into raptures or unleash hell with the best overdrive pedals in 2020.