If the Fender Stratocaster is such a perfect design, why – wonders Dave Burrluck – is there a whole industry of aftermarket parts and pickups to improve it?

Let’s whip off those ’plates and take a look inside

Michael Watts explores solutions to the challenge of amplifying acoustic guitars over the decades – are we nearly there yet?

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Mazda signed up as a licensee for Wankel’s rotary technology in 1961, and soon got to grips with the main issues (having spent $50m on development). As well as the exotic Cosmo and RX-7, the technolog