Top-class additions to your rig to keep you sounding your best

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

Winding Firebird Pickups

Moving into four figures, there’s a considerable, very diverse choice of serious electrics

Not quite into Custom Shop territory, these beautiful builds possess just as much charm