Huw price’s nitty gritty

Charlie Wilkins explores why guitarists crave sustain, how to get it and why some guitars sustain better than others

Can this early 60s Gibson Southern Jumbo be saved or has it gone belly up?

Fender’s Custom Shop had a precarious start in the mid-1980s, but the story of its formative years is full of big ideas, some bizarre instruments, and a queue of famous guitarists

If guitars are actually getting better by the day, us modders will have nothing to improve. Is it the end of the line, wonders Dave Burrluck, when he gets a new guitar on the bench

This month, Richard Barrett grabs his acoustic and shows you another way to expand your chord vocabulary

This month Alex Bishop unravels the intricate fretwork of a century-old concert mandolin