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2 days ago · In the middle of 2023 I went to the same places Stratocaster shopping and it was a night and day different story. Guitar after guitar with three or four bad places on the fretboard, either way-high frets or dead spots where maybe a fret needed to be hammered in better or something (I'm not qualified to troubleshoot).
Aug 3, 2024 · I was like, ‘Whoa’”: Nile Rodgers on what convinced him to buy a Fender Stratocaster – and why it was the best investment he ever made. By Andrew Daly. published 3 August 2024. The Chic founder on the tale of his legendary Hitmaker Strat – which was the cheapest guitar in the store when he bought it. When you purchase through links on ...
Jul 30, 2024 · According to Fortus, by flipping the guitar upside down and therefore reversing the angle the bridge pickup sits at, and also reversing the headstock – a novelty some believe improves tuning stability – Hendrix vastly improved the guitar’s design. Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, who Fortus spends much of the interview waxing lyrical about ...
12 hours ago · What, then, lies post post-punk? When the wiry guitars begin to rust and snap and the sprechgesang grows duller than a Dry Cleaning shopping list recital? To their credit, Dublin’s Fontaines DC ...
Jul 31, 2024 · So the first Strat I bought for myself as my main guitar is Vintage White with the humbucker in the bridge. “I ultimately put a tortoiseshell pickguard on it, and that’s my main baby. It’s starting to get a lot of cool wear; I love that you can see a player’s personality through the wear their guitars slowly amass over time.”
1 day ago · I’d recommend against having a classical guitar: the different nut width, strings - nylon rather than steel -, string spacing and fret board length can make playing clumsy when switching to the guitar you play less often. I use Thomastik-Infeld AC110 Plectrum Bronze 10-41 Acoustic Guitar Strings: for me, the best strings I’ve ever had.
Jul 26, 2024 · That gnarly beast duly features a reverse headstock and – crucially – the reverse angled bridge pickup as per Hendrix’s Strats. Fortus told Total Guitar that “reversing that angle of the bridge pickup makes a big difference”, and it was one of the few things that could have been improved upon from the original design “I think Leo Fender sort of got it wrong, and Jimi Hendrix ...
