Fender's 2026 American Professional line recesses the Strat saddle screws, puts a Custom Shop J-Bridge on the Jazzmaster and Jaguar, and costs $300 more than the Classic. Here's which one to buy.
Category: Guitars
Ovation Viper Returns: 120 Guitars, Two Bridges, and Almost Nothing Left of 1977
Ovation is bringing back the Viper for its 60th anniversary as two 60-piece limited runs: a basswood hardtail and an alder trem, both with coil-split Lace Sensor Hot Gold Dually pickups at an SRP of...
PRS Tekton: Four New Guitars That Drop Almost Everything PRS Is Known For, From $2,899
PRS's new Tekton family swaps the 25-inch scale, set neck, birds and hot pickups for a bolt-on, 25.5-inch, stainless-fretted metal platform with lower-output Stylus humbuckers built for modelers.
Jackson Legend Series: Randy Rhoads Moved Past the Concorde V. Jackson Just Brought It Back.
Jackson's Legend Series recreates four real instruments: Randy Rhoads' Concorde V, Scott Ian's NOT Rhoads, Marty Friedman's KE-1 and David Ellefson's first five-string Concert Bass. Here's the story...
Fender just dropped three new John 5 Telecaster models. Here's why the Phantom, Ghost, and $6,000 Custom Shop mark the most metal the J5 line has ever been.
Yamaha RS20MM: The $1,599 Revstar Built for a Guitarist Who Refuses to Use a Pick
Yamaha turned Matteo Mancuso's custom fingerstyle Revstar into a $1,599 production model. Almost every spec traces back to how he attacks a string with a fingernail instead of a pick.