Fender has unveiled its new Powercaster guitar, the first model in the company's recently-announced Alternate Reality series.The Powercaster features an Atomic humbucking pickup and a single-coil soapbar pickup, plus a Modern C-shaped roasted maple neck with a 9.5”-radius fingerboard, 22 medium-jumbo frets and a 24.75" scale length.The guitar also includes an Adjusto-matic bridge with stop tailpiece, and comes with a deluxe gig bag. The Fender Powercaster is available beginning this month for $899.99.For more info, head on over to fender.com.(Image: © Fender) via guitarworld https://ift.tt/2XMq4C3

Relish has unveiled the new Mary One, which, similar to its higher-priced Mary model, boasts a sandwich-style body construction and magnetic back lid that makes it possible to achieve “light-speed” pickup swapping, according to the company.The crux of the Mary One is its three-layer body and aluminum core. The top and back are separated from the center with industrial rubber rings, allowing the aluminum center to vibrate freely. The back is attached to the center using industrial magnets for easy access to the electronics.Features on the Mary One include custom-wound Relish Buckers XV pickups, a modern “C” shape maple neck, 10-inch bamboo fretboard and 24 medium jumbo nickel silver frets. There’s also a graphite nut, Gotoh SG 381 tuners and Emerson electronicsThe guitar is available with different wood tops and…

Swiss co Relish has released its third guitar, the Mary One, which gives its existing Mary model a lower-priced makeover but retains the company’s two-second pickup-swapping system.The Mary One is built around Relish’s Floating Sandwich Construction, with an aluminium core and magnetic back lid, which is what makes its pickup swapping quite so easy.Elsewhere, there’s a C-shape maple neck, 24-fret 10”-radius bamboo fretboard, graphite nut, Gotoh SG 381 tuners and Emerson electronics.The guitar comes fitted with Relish’s own Bucker XV humbuckers, but these can be swapped out for nine different pairs of Bare Knuckle or Seymour Duncan pickups.There’s also an onboard Graph Tech GHOST piezo setup with separate output and midrange boost, while the guitar is available in 18 different styles.The Mary One clocks in at $3,799, a full $1,000…

G&L CLF Research Doheny V12G&L has announced the CLF Research Doheny V12, a new guitar that the company says “digs deep into the rapid pace of technical development that was the hallmark of Leo Fender’s years at CLF Research, with particular focus on his late Seventies to early Eighties development of MFD guitar humbuckers.”The MFD humbucker can be set to series-humbucking, parallel-humbucking and single-coil modes individually or combined.The CLF Research Doheny V12 is being offered in two models: Old School Tobacco Sunburst over okoume with Caribbean rosewood fingerboard; and Pharaoh Gold Firemist over basswood with Caribbean rosewood fingerboard.Other features include original CLF black wrinkle powder-coating on a one-piece aluminum control plate/pickguard, chrome-plated CLF knobs for volume, treble and bass, a Dual Fulcrum Vibrato with a CLF 3/16-inch machined stainless steel…

Ibanez has announced its new Jake Bowen JBM10FX signature guitar. A more affordable version of the Periphery guitarist’s JBM100 model, the guitar features a maple top on a nyatoh body, making it noticeably lighter than the JBM100. Aside from that though, it still features the JBM100's DiMarzio Titan humbuckers, Gotoh MG-T locking tuners and Gibraltar Standard II bridge.The guitar also features a maple Wizard III neck, bound jatoba fretboard and a reverse headstock. It comes factory-tuned to DAFCGC and is strung up with .011-.056 strings.The guitar's five-way selector switch goes between the bridge, inner coils, both pickups, the parallel-connected neck humbucker and the neck.“This isn’t just an affordable-priced version of my JBM100,” Bowen said of the guitar. “This is a guitar I bring to stage every night and I can count on to play like…

Ernie Ball Music Man's Ball Family Reserve series is a celebration of the company's heritage in instrument craftsmanship. These rare pieces are offered in limited production runs and allow Ernie Ball Music Man to present instruments to the public that were previously reserved for family and loyal artists. This month's collection features the Majesty in Charred Silver, Valentine in Baby Blue, StingRay Special Bass in Dargie Delight 3, and the John Petrucci 15 in Paradise Pink. You can find out more about these unique guitars below. Majesty in Charred SilverThis John Petrucci Majesty features a striking Charred Silver Sparkle finish covering the entire body, headstock, and back of the neck. The streamlined fretboard comes with two strips of pearl inlays, replacing the traditional Majesty shield position markers. Each guitar is also hang…

Fender Broadcasters were only made between Autumn 1950 and March 1951, and are the most coveted and valuable models in the Telecaster family tree This is the insider’s story of the birth of the Fender Telecaster, the first commercial solidbody electric guitar. The Telecaster was a factory product, stripped down to its essentials, built from easily assembled parts, and made at a relatively affordable price. Guitarists of every stripe have come to love the Tele for its elegant simplicity and for its dry bite and twangy punch. Back when it first appeared in the early 50s, it was, quite simply, a revolutionary instrument. This oral history about the birth of the Telecaster comes from interviews I’ve done over the years for my various books about Fender. Bob Perine’s famous portrait…

NAMM 2019: Gibson Custom Shop showcases new models Including a Billy Gibbons Contour SG Prototype and Chuck Berry Tribute ES-350T. Billy Gibbons Contour SG Prototype, Gold & Black Today, Gibson Custom Shop held an event at NAMM showcasing their new axes. The collection had gorgeous guitars galore, but one of the standouts had to be Custom Shop Chuck Berry Tribute ES-350T, on which the brand worked with Berry’s son and grandson to create. Check it out in the gallery we’ve put together below, along with the likes of a Billy Gibbons Contour SG Prototype, Joan Jett ES-339 and more. Gibson Custom Shop NAMM 2019 Chuck Berry Tribute ES-350T Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard, Green Lemon Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard, Green Lemon Gibson 1964 SG Standard Reissue, Cherry Red Gibson…

NAMM 2019: So, here they are. They're not a surprise, given that Fender announced they were collaborating with Jimmy Page on a series of four Teles last year, but this is our first glimpse of the hotly anticipated quartet, timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin's seminal debut album, in the flesh. Page played the famed 'Dragon' on that album, and Fender's four releases - comprising two limited Custom Shop models and two full production guitars - pay homage to the guitar in its various iterations. The 1959 Telecaster was originally a 1966 gift from legendary guitarist Jeff Beck, sporting a tidy factory White Blonde finish, as cloned in the production line 'Mirror' release below. The true Mirror incarnation, now given the full Custom Shop replica treatment (and price tag), was born…

It’s rare today to find a guitar with totally unique functionality and design, especially to find one that isn’t cheesy or a novelty. Fender is really offering something special with their new Acoustasonic, a hybrid electric/acoustic guitar several years in the making. This guitar is truly an acoustic and an electric, not just an acoustic with a preamp and pickup, nor just an electric with a Piezo pickup for an added “acoustic” tone. It’s a concept all its own.Taking a broad-stroke overview, the new Acoustasonic sports the classic Telecaster body, has a magnetic electric pickup, a Piezo, and a body sensing pickup, a soundhole, a wooden bridge, two knobs, and a bolt-on neck. There’s a DSP chip inside for a diversity of tones, but the guitar sounds anything but digital…