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New Breed • The latest Brit brand to head overseas, Cream T releases the new LT range, made in China, and aims to make instant solderless pickup-swapping even more attractive

Sweet Clarity • Taylor has introduced a raft of changes into its Grand Auditorium range, including revised bracing, an easily adjustable neck system, and a new pickup

Transatlantic Style • Can this pair of new compact heads from Blackstar – the US-styled TV-10 AH and its British-counterpart, the TV-10 BH – deliver those classic tones?

Go Bananas • From Bad to Badder, DOD revives DigiTech’s drive pedal and gives it increased versatility

Pocket Harmony • EHX shrinks another pedal as the Intelligent Harmony Machine joins the ranks of the pedalboard-friendly Pico range

Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear

Fretbuzz • A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world, from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most

Albums • The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Tones Behind The Tracks • Veteran jazz-man Bill Frisell toasts his 75th birthday with a stellar line-up and questing new album, inspired by a dream from the past…

Did You Make It Yourself? • Neville Marten recalls with a tinge of cringe how he stumbled into a humiliating gear blunder back in his school days…

Keeping It Swede • This month Alex Bishop tackles a soundboard restoration, stabilising a shattered 1960s Hagstrom guitar years after a devastating accident

Origin Of The Species • The first Patent Applied For humbuckers were rather different to what followed. Stuart Robson of Sunbear pickups tells Jamie Dickson why

Open-Sounding Chords • Richard Barrett reveals some hidden treasures from the fretboard that avoid the typical pitfalls of playing chords in open tunings

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MIKE VERNON 1944-2026 • The producer of vintage Fleetwood Mac and Bluesbreakers – and sculptor of Eric Clapton and Peter Green’s seminal tones – was one of British blues’ towering figures

JOHN P HAMMOND 1942-2026 • The New Yorker will be remembered as a master of acoustic barrelhouse and an interpreter of Delta blues who performed like a man possessed

SMITH/KOTZEN • With second album, Black Light/White Noise, confirming the hard-rock duo as a project with legs, we meet Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen to hear about volume abuse, the perfect length for a solo, and the white heat of improvisation

ULTIMATE TELECASTERS

TELE VISION • The Fender Telecaster remained a work in progress throughout the vintage era, and as part of our 75th anniversary celebration we chart the changes in construction, controls and electronics

THINLINE TONIC • David Davidson of Well Strung Guitars describes how, during 1967, Fender got busy developing an alternative to heavy ash Telecaster bodies

TELE MODS • Players were already modifying their Telecasters in the 1950s, and a thriving aftermarket parts industry provides countless ways to enhance playability, reliability and tone

GOLD RUSH • Fender 75th Anniversary American Ultra II Telecaster £2,899

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER • To mark the company’s diamond...