Guitar

Nearly vintage Kent Armstrong pickups vs Guitar Fetish ‘Jimi’ Experience pickups. Have a listen.

Compare Bare Knuckle Apache and Tonerider Pure Vintage Strat pickups in an audio bakeoff.

Over the past few years I’ve experimented with a few pickups on my strats. And in the process of deciding which ones to keep and which ones to sell, I’ve recorded them all playing the same piece of music.
It’s…

The new ‘fat’ guitar is being groomed. She’s slowly learning how to tame her wild spirit and how to behave in polite society.
Jack Ellis from Jack’s Instrument Services drilled the body and fitted Callaham ferrules for through stringing like…

I’ve been asked a couple of times now for help with the wiring of the Dan Armstrong (London) sliding pickup guitar. The fact that the low-profile-pickup-sliding-on-a-rail feature was possible because it was also a low impedance pickup meant that, somewhere,…

When I was recording for the Caedmon album ‘Chicken to Hug’ I used my James Bisset Fiftieth Anniversary Edition strat almost exclusively.
This worked fine until one day the engineer and producer piped up nervously and said the guitar sounded…

At the last step in the Dan Armstrong refinish, and everything goes pear-shaped. Just my luck.

My lonely Dan Armstrong guitar finally finds a long lost relative, and although my Dan is the feisty younger sibling they still share the same terrible flaw.

The Dan Armstrong (London) refinish continues, but stripping away the years reveals a couple of worrying littles.

I’ve decided to revive my Dan Armstrong (London) guitar. But as I strip away the years of detritus, I’m suddenly puzzled. When was it really made?