Fender Japan has expanded its range of distinctly, well, Japanese offerings with the Sakura Telecaster – a jaw-dropping ...

that we’ve had to have years of really bad finishes on necks?” he says. “No need. Wear it down yourself, you lazy sod!” Or, as Frank Zappa would say, ‘Shut up ’n play yer guitar’.

The Fender Stratocaster is widely-considered to be one of the most iconic electric guitars of all time, having been used by legends like Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Harrison, just to ...

that was on all the old guitars since time immemorial – your technique is so dazzling, or you’re so uncomfortable putting your hand on that gloss, or you’re so affronted by it, that we’ve had to have ...