Anatomy of the electric guitar

pickups that are hard to find. A few weeks ago, I met Steve Marlowe […]

Today's task is to remove the worn cover from a Bareknuckle Warpig humbucker and replace the cable. The old cable is only 10cm long, so I'm going to replace it with a 4-conductor cable, which is better suited to this type of very powerful pickup. Coil-splitting the coil will bring back a bit of warmth to this otherwise aggressive pickup.

Here's a question every guitarist asks themselves sooner or later in their musical career: "Which pickup should I choose for my guitar?" The reasons for this desire for change are numerous and varied: a change in sound, switching to humbuckers, installing good pickups on a kit guitar, the need to upgrade an entry-level guitar…

Magnets are an essential component of electric guitar pickups . Without magnets, there's no […]

If there are legendary guitars, the Stratocaster is certainly the one that has been copied the most and influenced the most models. The greatest guitarists of the 60s and 70s played this instrument. Among them are: Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Rory Gallagher, Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Stevie Ray Vaughan… What is the signature sound of the Stratocaster? Why does the Stratocaster have such a characteristic sound?

"Radius" is an English word that means "ray" in French. The "radius" therefore corresponds to the radius of a circle of which the fingerboard (the part of the neck on which guitarists place their fingers) is a part.