Electric Guitar Trends

According to legend, when Leo Fender was refining the Fender Stratocaster prototype, he decided that the Fender Stratocaster had better have 3 pickups, to be more competitive.
It’s no secret that nobody uses the bridge pickup on a Stratocaster.  Maybe the middle pickup and bridge pickup combined, but not the bridge pickup alone.  The bridge pickup on a Strat seems [...]

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 [...]