TALES FROM NERDVILLE by Joe Bonamassa TOOLS OF THE TRADE, PART 4 For the last few columns, Joe Bonamassa has been demoing a ...

Introduced to the public in the spring of 1954, the first full-scale production run of the Fender Stratocaster began in October of that year. Fender, just a small post-war company at the time, had ...

Some of the most notable electric guitar companies have their roots in Southern California. Rickenbacker began in the 1930s, ...

We’ll consider choices of bodies, necks, tone controls ... and these are the most important to consider… A gem in Fender’s Strat lineup, S-1 switching offers five additional pickup wirings ...

When it comes to musical icons there are arguably none bigger than the Fender Stratocaster ... 59 Single-Coil Strat pickups, a maple Modern C neck and an Alder body, finished in Nebula Noir ...

Strat-o-Sphere is een sensationeel album waarin Blug en Granfelt de Fender Stratocaster laten schitteren! Van de warme twin-gitaar sound tot psychedelische slowblues en verrassende covers: elk nummer ...

with a fretboard inlaid with a bow and a flat-topped Pearl White body with custom graphics, and a unique hardshell case. (For more on Fender craftsmanship, see the recent Fender American Ultra II line ...

which differs from the standard 25.5-inch Fender scale length of the 21-fret Telecaster, Stratocaster and Jazzmaster. This was designed specifically to provide a more comfortable and faster-playing ...

The blues guitarist was given a chance to play a pair of the Irish rocker's prized Fenders ahead of their auction ...

A 1954 Fender Stratocaster Sunburst solid body electric guitar from the first year of the instrument’s production. “As one of the earliest Stratocasters ever made, this guitar holds ...

Now recognized as one of the best electric guitars ever designed Leo Fenders Stratocaster is a vital ingredient of American popular culture Its completely unconventional design and construction ...