Guitar Maniacs: World's Greatest Guitarists
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Articles, interviews, artist links, photo gallery and over 1500 music video links to the world's best guitarists. Chapters include rock, jazz, country, classical, metal, female, slide and many more to... [Read More]
 
Stratocaster Double Tone Control Mod
This is a simple Stratocaster and Fat Strat wiring modification, that changes the tone control capabilities. With this mod you will have much wider palette of tones to choose from by using the tone c... [Read More]
 
RG Strat – How to Wire a Stratocaster in Ibanez Style
In this article, I would like to show you an quite simple method of wiring a Stratocaster or a Fat Strat guitar, to reach some functions of the Ibanez RG construction. It's a great proposition fo... [Read More]
 
Direct-Through Strat Mod - Toggle Switch
Direct-through switch is a guitar mod, popular in Stratocasters and Fat Strats. It's designed to send the pickup signal directly to the jack, by omitting all pots. It makes the tone brighter and m... [Read More]
 
Blackstar Blitz @ Bananas At Large 3/31/11
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Get ready for an all-out amplifier assault! Blackstar Blitz is your chance to hear these high-gain British tube amps and the HT tube-driven pedals in all their glory. Blackstar product experts will... [Read More]
 
Fat Strat Mod (Fender + Charvel)
In this post I would like to present a Fat-Strat (HSS Stratocaster) modification project. It's based on functions of classic Strat and Charvel guitar wirings. The target of this construction is to... [Read More]
 
Gold Sparkle Fender Stratocaster Owned By Blues Rock Guitar Titan Joe Bonamassa Sells For $30,000 In Clapton Crossroads Auction
Where's Eric, the Eric Clapton fan site, is reporting that on the afternoon of 9 March, Bonhams New York conducted a 4 hour sale of 138 lots to aid Crossroads Centre in Antigua, an addiction recovery ... [Read More]
 
Dick Dale Stratocaster Wiring
Dick Dale signature Stratocaster guitar is a very uncommon Fender's construction. It's got only one pot (as a master volume control), a 3-way pickup selector and a special toggle switch for ac... [Read More]
 
American Standard vs. Deluxe Stratocaster (pre-2004)
American Standard and Deluxe Stratocaster guitars are looking similar as wood constructions, but their wirings are the two different stories. Let's look closer at them. American Standard Stratocas... [Read More]
 
Neck pickup switch (Gilmour's Strat)
In this post I will show you a wiring diagram of the neck pickup switch. This is something uncommon, what David Gilmour has got in his signature Stratocaster guitar. It allows him to switch-on the nec... [Read More]
 
Guitar wiring a la Frankenstein (Eddie Van Halen, Charvel)
You can build your own Frankenstein guitar like Eddie Van Halen. This is not so difficult today. I will show you my idea on how it can be done from the electronics wiring side. My wiring is designe... [Read More]
 
Kenny Wayne Shepherd To Play Iconic Hendrix "Woodstock Strat" on 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon'
This Wednesday, November 10th, blues rocker Kenny Wayne Shepherd will be joining The Roots for a special Hendrix-themed sit-in on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Shepherd will be playing the same... [Read More]
 
Wiring diagram for Stratocaster - quite expanded
This is the wiring diagram for Stratocaster, with my new idea for tone control circuit. It has also interesting pickup switching system.(Probably, your pickguard will need some drilling for it.) The ... [Read More]
 
Wiring diagram for Stratocaster - with a "warm-bright-warm" switch
Here comes the idea for a Stratocaster wiring. The biggest difference between my and the original Stratocaster wiring is in control over a tone warmth. My idea gives more options in this topic. The co... [Read More]
 
Jimi’s Woodstock Setup | Jas Obrecht Music Blog
With all the hype surrounding the Hendrix 40th Anniversary event, Jas Obrecht offers some real substance with the scoop on Jimi's Woodstock Strat & gear set-up! Coming from Obrecht, you can count ... [Read More]
 
Fender Blacktop Series: Variations on a Theme | Muzicosphere
I think Fender did some voodoo tricks to read my mind and bring out a series of guitars especially made for me!! Not innovative but some quite interesting features! [Read More]