Introducing Hottie Pickups!  With the help of Seymour Duncan the folks at Hottie Amplifiers have created pickups that capture the creamy distortion and harmonic complexity of their Hottie Amps.  Original Hottie Pickups have honey-sweet tone, touch sensitivity, and a perfect blend of warmth and presence.  Sold as singles or sets.  Custom options available. Credit: Hottie Amplifiers.

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 Master “Tone-Legend”, Billy F Gibbons of ZZ Top, offers a personalized new bridge, designed to achieve greater tone and performance for the Telecaster and Esquire style guitars along with an extremely cool Spanish electric solid-body guitar from Bolin Guitars, dubbed “The Super Model“. The improved bridge-plate is designed to accommodate both Seymour Duncan’s Billy Gibbons’ [...]

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 Two new Slash Signature model Les Pauls will bereleased in early October. One model made by Gibson USA and the other by Epiphone. The Gibson USA model is limited to 1,000 pieces total and features Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro II pickups, weight relieved body, proprietary wiring, caps, resistors and tone pots and is topped off [...]

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 Nice Guy…Punk Legend! The image of Billy Zoom on stage with his wide legged stance, satisfied grin and vintage Gretsch® Silver Jet guitar is well documented in the annals of American punk rock lore. A co-founder of the band, “X” from Los Angeles, California in the late ‘70s during a time when pop culture was [...]

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Two new ESP Horizon guitars are available. The FR-II which features: Neck-Thru-Body, 25.5″ Scale, Mahogany Body, Quilted Maple Top, Maple Neck, Ebony Fingerboard, Locking Nut, 42mm Neck Width, Thin U Neck Contour, 24 XJ Frets, Black Nickel Hardware, Gotoh Tuners, Floyd Rose Bridge, EMG 81 (B) / 85 (N) p.u. Finish: STR

The NT-II which features: Neck-Thru-Body, [...]

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 The new Godin Summit CT features an eye catching highly figured solid maple carved top (CT) and an extremely resonant solid mahogany string through body. The worn in feel of the Ergocut shaping technique used on its ebony fingerboard facilitates the incredible ease of play of its ultra comfortable mahogany neck. This 24 ¾” scale [...]

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 Upgrade your guitar or build your own with Warmoth Custom Replacement Guitar and Bass Bodies, Necks, and Pickguards! Pickups from Seymour Duncan, Rio Grande, and Lindy Fralin, and hardware from Schaller, Gotoh, Floyd Rose, Planet Waves are available and more! Warmoth has the World’s Largest Online Inventory of bodies and necks that are ready to ship from their Showcase pages. Credit: [...]

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The PM24V delivers the quality and tone you expect from our PM20 with the added benefit of the Parker Vibrato with Fishman piezos for even more versatility. No limits here. Use the piezos for a realistic acoustic sound or mix it up with the humbuckers for a new dimension. Available in Green Burst, Cognac, and [...]

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What are active pickups and what are the advantages and drawbacks? An active pickup is one that uses electronics to enhance or modify the signal from the guitar’s strings. Unlike passive pickups that are constructed of wire wound around a magnet, active pickups require an external power source to operate. Along with the external power [...]

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