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Pickups

The wood is important, of course: we've learned it by interviewing luthiers and visiting Madinter. And...what about the shape? Indeed it seems that the vast majority of the guitarists’ community is divided between Gibson or Fender-aholics, the eternal struggle. Weight, color, frets, neck thickness... many things effect the choice of a...

Legends, the illustrated collection

The Belgian cartoonist Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, was not a guitarist. He is known for being the creator of The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular comics of the 20th century. Hergé was the pioneer of the drawing style named clear line ("ligne claire" in French). He was a Master. Guitars Exchange wanted to pay a...

Golden Decade: Guitars that made History

A walk through the decade 1951/1961 through those guitars that are already legend. Nobody can deny that the 50s have marked the history of contemporary music. In the hands of Leo Fender and Ted McCarty (Gibson) those instruments born -and still remain in production, following those magisterial teachings-. In those years we can...

Press to Play

Hello guitarist!Every month you'll find in this section all the magazines' covers we love. Because #weloveguitars and everything that talks about 'em!

1.000 ways to smash up a guitar

Jimi Hendrix burned his Stratocaster on June 18, 1967 during the Monterey Pop Festival, leaving an historical image that calls to mind some strange pagan ritual... Pete Townshend smashed a few, the truth is that nobody knows how many. Also the quite calm Brian May, during a concert in New Jersey in '82 , frustrated with tuning...