Eddie Van Halen is the guitarist most people think of when the word ‘Frankenstein’ is uttered in guitar circles, but Rory ...

Find out more about how we test. Although we had all available appendages crossed in the hope that Fender would send us the gorgeous Daphne Blue incarnation of its Limited Edition American Standard ...

For many, a rosewood fretboard offers comfort and ... “The body is from a ’63 Strat, but the neck is one [Austin blues guitarist] Bill [Campbell,] gave to me, so I guess it’s kind of a ...

The Fender Old Growth Redwood Stratocaster This Special Edition guitar has a 25.5-inch scale, modern C-shaped maple neck (also hand-rubbed in oil) with a rosewood fingerboard sporting 21 medium ...

thick body is a 22-fret maple neck topped by a maple or rosewood fingerboard. And unusually for a Traveler guitar, this new design sports a headstock with chrome hardware, though in a non-Strat ...

and two Fender necks; a '50s Road Worn lightly relic'd maple and a roasted maple example, in addition to the Strat's stock rosewood slab fingerboard. Sweetwater's techs set the necks up for the guitar ...

Still, ebony is nicer than rosewood, to me ... “When you push the button in on the Strat, it will add the neck pickup in positions 1 and 2,” notes Abbassi. It’s a popular mod among Strat ...

The replacement Stratocaster differed slightly from the stolen one because it had a maple neck instead of a rosewood neck. Over the years, according to Rolling Stone, Gilmour made several changes ...

Classic-sounding Strat tones through V-Mod II pickups ... I haven’t gotten to try the rosewood model, but I love the maple necks on these new Strats. My review unit had a beautiful glossy ...

neck, and headstock made from genuine Stratocaster wooden blanks, while the Tuning Keys and Bridge are built using genuine metal parts and fittings." "Available in a hand-painted Three-Tone ...