Time travel

Why are more and more guitar builders making their own pickups, wonders Dave Burrluck, and does it affect us players who are used to decades-old designs road-tested by giants?

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?

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”

We take a deeper look into the history and building philosophy behind Australian brand Fenech Guitars by talking to the luthier at its helm

A year after their debut at NAMM 2024, the Victory MK Clean and MK Overdrive are the toast of the high-end valve scene. Chief designer Martin Kidd unfurls the schematics

1960 Gibson ES-335