Today, the chuggable brand expanded its collection of metal-ready bass guitars with the AB2.4 Canibalismo ... with a five-piece maple/jatoba neck joining the body with a five-bolt join. The neck is ...

Bass Week: Playing bass guitar in a metal band is easy. You carefully copy whatever riff the guitarist plays, wave horn signs at the leather-clad crowd and then go home. There's little room for ...

The description is drool-worthy: Hutchins "The Beast" six-neck electric guitar, comprising a twelve string guitar, a six string guitar with tremolo, a five string bass, a four string bass ...

With Charvel Surfcaster bodies and Strat headstocks, Mansoor's Frankenstein Jacksons are the coolest metal guitars you'll see, and the tuning they've inspired is crazy even by baritone standards ...

Photo: Rozette Rago Frets and fretboard: With any luck a new guitar or bass won’t need much work on the frets (the metal bars across the neck) or the fretboard (the rest of the neck’s front side).