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Soundhole of Long Guitar, sinker redwood top with Indian Rosewood rosette; ebony fretboard.
It’s our Annual
Acoustic
Extravaganza!
Sustainable Tone
We bring you the facts about the health of the tonewood
forests and find the future surprisingly bright.
Ricky Skaggs
The Ambassador of Bluegrass releases his inner gearhead.
Peppino D’Agostino
We talk solo guitar with the Maestro Italiano.
5 Inlay Artist You Should Meet
Meet the artists who make you drool all over your guitars.
Linda Manzer
We profile the builder who made Metheny the Pikasso Guitar.
New Reviews
Martin SWOMGT, Breedlove Atlas Acoustic Basses, Godin
Multiac, Bose L1 Compact, Henriksen Jazz Amp, plus
Schertler, Taylor, Bourgeois and Cole Clark guitars and our
Soundhole Pickup Roundup.
Plus, lessons, columns, and tone-oriented tips
and tricks. Check back next month, “same gear
time, same gear channel!”
Make sure to read our
completely FREE digital edition at:
http://digital.premierguitar.com
DDyna Music Thinman OD
This lightest of the Company’s
overdrive pedals is based on
blending two limiter types to cre-
ate that ‘little something’ to your
amp or effects chain. Includes
unique glowing controls.
MSRP $159
ddynamusic.com
De Temple Titanium
Tremolo Assembly
Tone You Can Feel—a direct
replacement for vintage
tremolo bridges found on
Stratocasters made from 1954 to current reissue models. Improves touch
sensitivity, tuning, clarity, sustain,
harmonics, musicality and weighs 1/4
pound less. Part# TTA-01R
MSRP $360
detempleguitars.com
Skatterbrane Pickups
PAF style pickups, hand wound with 42AWG PE coil
wire, German silver backing plates, maple spacers,
steel slugs and pole screws. Also features rough
cast magnets, and most importantly random scatterwound coils, wound unevenly, like old PAFs.
MSRP $285–$450/pair
skatterbrane.com