The Slipknot guitarist was originally pushed towards Charvel, but he had his sights set on reinventing a Fender classic ...

The next-gen blues star has been bestowed his second signature Tele, but it took the Purple One’s influence to convince him ...

This past weekend (October 11-13), Fender hosted a three-day, three-venue event, the Fender Experience, in Tokyo, Japan, inviting music fans to get up close with its biggest signature artists and some ...

In a 2017 interview with Guitar Aficionado, the country-rock six-string ace revealed how a sad and deeply personal twist of ...

Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he ...

How did a guitar that failed to grab its intended market – the market it was literally named after – end up becoming the instrument of choice across surf-rock, post-punk, new wave, power pop, shoegaze ...

In the Fender guitar factory in Corona, California, beneath the gaze of the game-changing riff-masters (Jimi Hendrix, Phil Lynott, Jeff Beck) whose action-shot portraiture hangs high on the walls, the ...

From heavy metal shredding to country twang, no one guitar is built the same. The nuances of guitars, such as the versatile tone and the varying bodies, differentiate brands and, more importantly, ...