Electric Guitar Trends

All of the advice says that you could really damage to your guitar if you adjust your guitar truss rod.  I suppose that’s true, given that your guitar’s truss rod is threaded to a bolt deep inside the neck of your guitar.  If the rod snaps, or the bolt comes unseated, your guitar could become almost worthless.
This is less likely [...]

The body of your electric guitar is adorned with 1, 2 or 3 guitar pickups.  And pickups need pickup covers to protect the sensitive windings of the pickup.
Fender has been using plastic pickup covers since the beginning, and hasn’t strayed much from their approach to pickup covers of the years.
The early Gibson humbucker pickup covers served [...]

I am surprised how much dancing around there is on this subject.  Even the manufacturers of guitar strings seem unable to articulate when it is time to change the strings on an electric guitar.
Sometimes the advice is simply to play the guitar until the strings feel dead, or don’t sound as good as they used to.  [...]

One of the most obvious trends in electic guitar manufacturing is one you cannot see, and perhaps one you cannot even hear.  Electric guitars are getting lighter.
If you play guitar practicing at home sitting on the edge of your bed, you might not care how much your guitar weighs.  But once you start rehearsing with a [...]

I’m old enough to remember a time when Levy’s was not in the guitar strap business.  In the early 1970’s, there were of course several companies making guitar straps for your electric guitar.  The local music store had a spinner rack or a coat rack that held them all.  It didn’t matter much which one you bought, because [...]

There are several companies making wah-wah pedals. I suppose the market leaders have always been the Cry Babys, Morleys, and Vox pedals. Nowadays, there are also pricier boutique makers, such as Budda Wah, Fulltone, and Teese.  I find all this rather strange, considering how simple the original wahs that Jimi Hendrix played were.
I mean, what are we are we talking here?  An [...]

Budget Electric Guitars

1.  Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plain Top
2.  Epiphone Limited Edition 1966 G-400
3.  Epiphone Limited Edition Riviera Custom P93
4.  Epiphone Les Paul 1956 Goldtop
5.  Fender Standard Telecaster Ash
6.  Epiphone Dot
7.  Ibanez ART400H
8.  Epiphone G-400 SG
9.  Ibanez RG3EXFM1
10. Ibanez RG5EX1

Mid-Range Electric Guitars
1. Gibson Les Paul Studio
2. ESP LTD Deluxe EC-1000
3. Fender Deluxe Player’s Stratocaster
4. Brian [...]

Here’s another murky topic - fretboard cleaning and maintenance.  I suspect most guitarists never touch their guitars’  fretboards, except to play them.
Nowadays, there are several products on the market that claim to clean and condition the fretboard of your guitar.  They mostly use lemon oil, plus some added ingredients aimed at making the job as easy [...]

I have a Fender Strat Plus, which came with Schaller straplocks.  I bought the guitar used, so I only had the Schaller strap buttons on the guitar, not the female ends that attach to the guitar strap.
I found that, without the proper fastener on my guitar strap, the Strat would sometimes fall off its strap.  Scary!  [...]

In recent years, some electric guitar manufacturers have started making guitars with asymmetrical necks.  So why shape a guitar neck, so it is not the same shape on both sides?

The argument for an asymmetrical electric guitar neck, is simply that our hands are not symmetrical.  These guitar necks are fatter on the thumb side, to provide a [...]