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This is a great demo of the Fender Road Worn 60's Stratocaster. The guitar certainly looks the part but this video also illustrates some of the great tones the guitar is capable of.



Fender Road Worn 60's Stratocaster Specification

Price: £889
Country of Origin: Mexico
Body Style: Double-cutaway, contour-bodied solidbody electric
Features: Three Fender Tex-Mex single-coils, five-way lever pickup selector switch, master volume, tone 1 (neck), tone 2 (middle)
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
Guitar Body Material: Alder
Hardware: Vintage-style Synchronized vibrato bridge, vintage-style split post tuners (aged), three-ply mint green scratchplate
Neck Finish: Maple
Scale Length (Inches) (Inches): 25.5
Scale Length (mm) (mm): 648

For more info and photos of the Fender Road Worn 60's Stratocaster visit http://www.fender.com

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A collection of cool gothic and fantasy guitars for those guitar geeks out there. This particular list features everything from sword shaped guitars through to angels and demons carved out of the guitar bodies.

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Logitech have really pulled one out of the bag with this awesome new wireless Guitar Hero controller. To date the only other company that have produced a realistic guitar controller are Starpex and they will certainly have the work cut out trying to compete with this realistic, wooden controller. The Premiere Edition Wireless Guitar is licenced by Guitar Hero publisher Activision and the controller has a wooden neck, a rosewood fingerboard and metal frets and tuners. The Integrated 2.4GHz wireless also gives it a 30ft range.

The controller is on sale in the US at around $250 and in the UK from £129.99. To get you salivating we thought you would enjoy these hi res photos of the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller Premiere Edition.

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This is guitar porn with a difference. This photo collection features some amazing digital artwork from some very talented artists featuring guitars of all kinds. Some of these prints range from ultra realistic guitar models to the downright bizarre and there are genres such as fantasy, horror, sexy, gaming and anime. Enjoy!



Sexy girl with guitar



Anime influenced rock guitarist



Sexy girl with rifle shaped guitar



Realistic stratocaster



Nicely rendered Stevie Ray Vaughan signature model



Ultra worn Gibson SG



Gothic guitar god



Guitar flamethrower (Now we're talking!)



Turtle bluesman



Guitar massacre



Guitar nymph



Halo - Master Chief with a guitar

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I have to confess that I'm not the biggest Yngwie Malmsteen fan but his olympic white 70's Fender Stratocaster is the stuff of legend and certainly iconic amongst guitarists. Fender's custom workshop have painstakingly put together an identical tribute series stratocaster complete with 70's enlarged headstock, stressed bodywork and aged scalloped fretboard. The attention to detail is quite literally incredible and the guitar even has the "Play Loud" sticker that Yngwie put on back in 1983.

You can watch the making of this incredible instrument at the Fender custom workshop website which provides a fascinating insight into the process of creating such a classic guitar. Enjoy!

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Gibson Guitars have announced the world’s first self tuning guitar which is rather unimaginatively called the 'Gibson Robot Guitar'. Basically its a Les Paul with a modified control knob that enables the tuning of the instrument with a simple push or pull. Each tuner is equipped with specialised servo motors and as the motorized tuners adjust the pitch of the strings they are monitored by means of a Tune-Control Bridge. Gibson say that the guitar weighs the same and playability and tone isn't effected in any way.



To be honest you really need to see this to fully understand how clever this is. Check out the video below for a full demonstration.



I'm not sure whether I think this is a good idea or not to be honest. Whilst it is undeniably an ingenious piece of engineering I think it could also encourage guitarists to be lazy. Learning to tune your guitar is in my opinion a fundamental skill that all guitarists should master and helps develop your ear for music.



Whilst the Gibson robot guitar will be out of most guitarists budgets I suspect we will see a raft of cheaper copy cats before long and I'm not sure this kind of feature will help beginners and intermediates in the long term.

Having said that I think the preset range of alternate tunings is a great feature and this will probably impress more experienced guitarists. This could represent a massive time saving feature for those gigging guitarists how want to add more tonal colour to their playing.

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