Duesenberg 52 Senior Features Elevating the single-pickup Junior concept to fully carved-top status and adding clever switching for extra adaptability it’s a stroke of rock genius. One look will be enough to tell you why we featured the Duesenberg 52 Senior in our NAMM 2010 report. Co-opting the brand name of one of America’s most […]
Vintage Guitars
Gibson Les Paul USA Slash Appetite
Review Lightweight, devilishly handsome and loaded with fire-breathing pickups and TonePros hardware, the Gibson Les Paul USA Slash Appetite offers more than a signature. No matter how you look at it, Slash and a Gibson Les Paul are a winning combination. For many people Saul Hudson remains the last in line for the title of […]
PRS Torero Vintage Guitar
Offshore Paul Reed Smith that expands the family. PRS Torero, think 10 Tops, bird inlays, that PRS vibrato. Despite relative newcomers like the Singlecut, the McCarty, semi-acoustics and much more, that basic winning formula is ingrained into our brains. Released alongside the 25th Anniversary Custom 24 SE (right up that familiar street) and a siggie […]
Hofner Contemporary Series Shorty
Originally launched in 1982 and lasting just four years, the Shorty was perhaps the least Hofner-like Hofner ever made. Has its time come at last? Features Hofner ShortySo you’re packing up the car for the ordeal of a family holiday or, worse still, a visit to the in-laws. You know that the only way your […]
Fender La Cabronita Especial
Translating approximately to Little Bastard Special, Fender La Cabronita Especial is Custom Shop brawler, a Tele with extra Gretsch horsepower. Review by Rick Batey Features As soon as we saw the first La Cabronita – which emerged in single-pickup form sometime in 2008 before gaining a twin-pickup sister – we thought it was one of […]
Yamaha SG1802 Vintage Guitar
Yamaha SG1802 Features The righteous new P90 version of Yamaha SG1802 smooth and time-tested Les Paul challenger is not a low-price option. Is it worth the wedge? Martyn Casserly seeks to find out Yamaha is a strange company. For decades they’ve been making beautiful guitars with professional level build quality and classic sounds at decent […]
Danelectro 56 Single Cutaway electric guitar
Features The recently revamped Danelectro guitar range now includes four variations of this brand’s first reissue, with one boasting a lot more bling than ever before. Review by Roger Cooper Danelectro in 2011 is a mixture of the crazy and the mainstream. The nutty side is represented by the new Wild Thing, and we’ll have […]
Hagstrom Viking Bass
Features With semi-acoustic basses like Gibsons, Epiphones and Guilds enjoying a spell of popularity after years in the desert, it’s a fine time for the Viking to return. Review by Gareth Morgan Albin Hagström established the Hagstrom brand in Sweden in 1925 to import accordions from Germany and Italy. They began making guitars in 1958, […]
Fender Road Worn Player Stratocaster HSS
Road Worn Player Features Like the ready-trashed Road Worn Player but need a touch of modernity with hotter pickups and a flatter fingerboard? Review by Alex Lees Tell you what, this fashion for pre-damaged guitars has been a godsend for clumsy reviewers. You can drop them, bang them against doorframes, spill concentrated sulphuric acid all […]
Fender 60th Anniversary Telecaster
Telecaster Features It may be the Telecaster Big Sixty, but it wouldn’t thank you for the gift of a bus pass and a pair of comfy slippers. Do the right thing, suggests Richard Purvis, and celebrate with an amp turned up to the sweet spot Deceptive chaps, Telecasters. They may look like electrified planks, and […]