One of the greatest things about guitar is the learning never stops; it's not just playing but everything from the type of pick we use to even the way we fit new electric guitar strings. This new ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jack Ellis Fitting fresh bass strings can be a real treat: you realize what your bass ...

If you’re finding that a string suffers from erratic or unstable tuning, it might well be because the string is catching in your guitar’s nut. Sometimes this can necessitate the nut being filed, or ...

Professional guitarists frequently insist on non-coated strings because any sort of coating on a string can dampen its sound, robbing the guitar of its brilliant highs and change its tone–almost ...

A guitar without strings is much less useful than one with them - though you may be able to use an acoustic model as a ...

While designing a guitar, a regular guitar design follows a fairly consistent blueprint: a body, a neck, and a headstock—where the tuning machines are—strings go from top to bottom. But over the last ...