Humbucker Soup

Dating Fender guitars is more art than science. It’s a well-known fact that Fender has not always used serial numbers that makes much sense. These links can at least help get you started.

Judging by the number of articles related to the Fender Telecaster in this site, anyone can guess that I am a big fan of this guitar. In some ways, the Telecaster is for me, the perfect guitar; it looks right, it feels right and it sounds right. But out of the box, the Telecaster might not be equipped for exactly what you had in mind. Fortunately, most Telecaster modifications are fairly painless.

For those of you who need an acoustic that plays like a Strat, here we go again.

Here is a great video from Expert Village that provides a very quick and strait-forward tutorial on truss rod adjustment.

I recently wrote an article for BestCovery.com titled: Best Electric Guitar Overall. At first a begged my editor to take me off the case: “Best Electric Guitar?”… are you crazy?… I’m gonna get 100 pounds of hate mail!…”

Ok, so they pretty much invented the analog guitar amplifier. They perfected it and pretty much any guitarist would agree that few are better. So, why they heck would anyone use a Fender digital modeling amplifier? …’cause it’s a great amp, that’s why.

Just about every guitarist has had, has or will at some point have a Stratocaster. It is one of the most popular electric guitars of all time. Since Edward Van Halen chopped up his Stratocaster around 1977, Stratocaster customization has been an increasingly popular hobby. Compared to 1977, it is much easier to find Stratocaster parts. Even better, it is very easy to find Stratocaster parts online.

If you need a good balance of quality and value, these mid-priced acoustic electric guitars offer the best of both worlds. Here are links to the manufacturer’s product page and a handy Google search for some of the most popular models on the market today.

I promise you, if you need a vintage single coil pickup, but it has to have both subtlety and balls, use Texas Specials, case closed.