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If you have one or two that stand out, please share! Whether on the jazzy side or more the glassy quack of single coil pups would like to read about the top pickups for carrying the musical side of individual notes and chords. Thanks for your recommendations! Merry Christmas!

Whether you've played or owned the acoustic, what is your absolute favorite and/or dream acoustic guitar and why? Seems like most people talk about Martins these days as the best sound/tone possible. Taylors and others are distant seconds. Breedlove and Yamaha are also out there but nowhere...

I'm building a Warmoth guitar and before designing and ordering I would like to know which of the Seymour Duncan pups might create an acoustic guitar sound out of a standard electric guitar setup? I may include an F hole if that helps or hallow out the body. But I would in the end prefer it to...

Does anyone have an opinion or view regarding whether it is advantageous to have single coil pickup rings? I'm finishing up a Warmoth build and discussing with the tech putting it together whether to use single coil rings. We are using a ring for the humbucker so will likely match them up...

What is your all-time favorite playing electric guitar? If price were not a consideration which electric would you want that you don't yet own today? So far, for me it is very close between the Ritchie Blackmore and the David Gilmour...I could live with either of them as my one guitar forever...

I'm building a Warmoth strat and will have stacked classics for the neck and middle pickups. I want a humbucker for the bridge pickup that will best compliment the two single coil style pups. Of course they are stacked so they are not true single coil but I am trying to create a classic...

Fender has released reissues of the '54, '55, '56, '56, '62, '65 and maybe more. Whether from playing the actual strat or enjoying its sound, what year is your all time favorite? So far, for me, it's the '62. They are not making many remakes of this and the current '62 models out there at...

Anyone use this feature on the Fender website? For some reason when I select this area it loops me back to the first page and I can no longer access this option. I don't remember what it was called before but I don't think it was the Fender Mod Shop. I believe they changed it to this during...

Is anyone familiar with whether there is an effect I can use to create or simulate a violin/fiddle sound? My band wants to play The Devil Went Down To Georgia and so a couple of us will be playing Charlie Daniels' leads...but on guitar. Thanks for any help you can provide!

Does anyone know if the previous Fender Online Build site is still up somewhere? I see their mod shop which seems different and from my location they will not allow access and direct us to a Fender dealer. I regret not using their online build site a year or two ago when it was up and running...

I stumbled across this site after reading about this luther in a magazine. Has anyone heard these guitars or play them in real life? Thanks! http://www.greenfieldguitars.com/guitars/steel-strings/

Has anyone tried a Parker guitar and in particular, the Parker Fly? Mark Farner swears by them and touts both the light weight feature and that the guitars are sensitive and precise. Thanks for any infor you can share! http://www.parkerguitars.com/products/fly/

In a Fender article, the company reported: Today, most Fender electric instruments use one of two main fingerboard radius measurements. Most prevalent is the modern 9.5” radius (241mm), which was adopted in the 1980s and is now found on about two thirds of Fender electric instruments. The next...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/gl-comanche-electric-guitar/h99763 G&L's Comanche is an example of a guitar using these pickups. I'm not sure if G&L use these pickups on any other strat-like guitar. As for a tele-like guitar they are used on the G&L ASAT Z3...

Has anyone played or heard the Fender Jeff Beck signature guitar? http://intl.fender.com/custom-shop/series/artist/jeff-beck-signature-stratocaster-rosewood-fingerboard-olympic-white/ Thanks for any feedback you can share. I really appreciate reading your views. Thank you again so much!