Ernie Ball Music Man heats up the winter with the February Collection, offering three great looking guitars: a Jester in the Majesty's court, a hot Valentine and StingRay5 about to burst!
It's 40 years of Jackson Guitars and its Custom Shop has hit the mark with a set of amazing axes that will either wow you or make you run for cover. Here are our favourites from the new series.
Fender has now officially launched the new HM Strat and we got our hands on one at Winter NAMM. The real question is "Would you buy one of these limited editions or an original?"
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The Ibanez PIA that leaked earlier this month is now officially launched and has new DiMarzio pickups, blossom inlay, and the Petal Grip. Paradise In Art?
The Gojira frontman gets a new Charvel Joe Duplantier signature model for 2020 and it looks like it will handle anything you can throw at it. Made in Indonesia will these stack up at under a grand?
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Images have surfaced on Facebook of a never-before-seen Ibanez Steve Vai PIA model, based on the JEM but with different frets, pickups and finishes. If genuine, will they be launched at NAMM?
The Ball Family Reserve August releases include the new Valentine Target Burst, Majesty Blue Steakhouse and the Bongo 5HH Wild Cherry Burst - some very tasty limited edition models here...
Spoon guitarist Britt Daniel and Lincoln Brewster get new Signature model Fenders. Plus the Fender Signature model series gets some updated colours for this year as well
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This new lightweight high-performance signature guitar for Periphery's Jake Bowen certainly retains all the pro features you want, yet still manages to keep costs down.
Morbid Angel's guitarist Dan Vadim Von is the latest artist to join the Solar Guitars roster, with not one but two signature models bearing his name due to be released in 2019.
The new Charvel DK24-7 NOVA Angel Vivaldi 7-string signature model is a perfect fit for the New Jersey prog guitarist and looks amazing in that Satin Sage Green with gold hardware finish
A new, slightly more wallet-friendly Premium version of Steve Vai's famous JEM guitar is being premiered at Ibanez's NAMM 2019 booth - and it screams shred!
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It's one of the oldest controversies in the guitar world: Ceramic vs. Alnico. Many players believe that Alnico is "warmer", whereas Ceramic sounds "colder". True? All is finally revealed...
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Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan has, er, a unique take on the old "what guitar hardware sounds best" discussion, having gone on record stating that white guitars sound better to him...
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The cool new 2018 version of the St Vincent signature comes in Charcoal Sparkle, Blue Dawn, Stealth Black, and Sea Breeze finish, along with two new pickup configurations.
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The new Gibson Custom Shop Vivian Campbell Les Paul Custom is one of the few versions of this model to feature jumbo frets, but will you pay an extra grand for his signature?
