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Five Stratocasters, all sunbursts and all different – so what is the best vintage if you’re craving a classic?

Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...

1960 Gibson ES-335

With a raft of recent high-spec reissue launches, is Epiphone now the home of affordable ‘vintage’ Gibsons? On paper, yes. But what about in the flesh?

Alex Bishop journeys up to Yorkshire for the inaugural String Break UK luthiers’ summit

From his early days in the repair shop to heading up one of the world’s leading pickup brands, the master pickup maker tells us how his problem-solving mindset led to him working with some of the biggest names in the biz, and why he humbly still seems himself as “crew”