Fat Metals strings are made with hand-operated winders, with a Tuned Core Process (TCP) where operators listen to every string as it is made. They are shipped in wood boxes with moisture-sealed packaging to prevent tarnish. Each has a label to identify gauge and alloy. For  more, visit professorstring.com.

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Akai’s Analog Custom Shop line includes 10 guitar pedals: Phase Shifter, Analog Delay, Blues Overdrive, Chorus, Compressor, Drive3 Overdrive, Deluxe Distortion, Flanger, Drive3Fuzz, and Drive3Distortion. See them at analogcustomshop.

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Team Josie, an American Cancer Society Relay for Life team sponsored by Vintage Guitar, this year raised $6,500, bringing its four-year total to $32,000. Team Josie was named in memory of Josie Alise Greenwood, who died in April, 2007, after being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (A.L.L.). She was the daughter of VG webmaster Joe…

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Chet Atkins coined the term “Certified Guitar Player” to describe an artist who personified the ultimate in performance skill and musical quality. Atkins personally bestowed the C.G.P. title on only four guitarists:  Tommy Emmanuel, John Knowles, the late Jerry Reed, and Steve Wariner. In an August 13 program to mark the opening of the “Chet…

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Fano Guitars presented two custom Alt de Facto PX6 guitars to Project Blues, an Ohio-based nonprofit that uses the healing power of blues music to raise funds for cancer patients without financial resources. The organization will hold its First Annual Blues Bash on Sunday, September 11, at the Bluestone, in Columbus. The event features leading blues artists…

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The Lace Stonewashed Alumitone humbucker has a worn satin-black finisih with well worn edges. See it lacemusic.com.  

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David “Honeyboy”Edwards passed away at his home in Chicago on August 29. He was 96. Often cited as the “last link” between post-war blues and the current generation of players, Edwards was born in Mississippi and learned to play guitar as a child; his mother played the guitar, while his father, a fiddler and guitarist, performed…

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On August 12, the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum unveiled an exhibit titled Chet Atkin: Certified Guitar Player, which pays tribute to the legendary guitar artist. The Gretsch Company is the title sponsor for the exhibit; Atkins helped design and popularize several Gretsch models that are still best-sellers today. Prior to the opening, the Hall…

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Lava Cable’s solder-free plugs are now being offered with caps available in four colors – black, white, red, and green, intended to help set up pedalboards using color-coded cables. The Lava Cap is made in the U.S.  Learn more at lavacable.com.

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Epiphone’s 50th Anniversary 1961 Casino is, like the original, a true hollowbody made of five-ply maple/birch with a solid mahogany SlimTaper neck, attached using traditional mortise-and-tenon neck joint. Hardware includes a Tune-O-Matic bridge and the choice a trapeze tailpiece or Epiphone’s new reissue of the original Tremotone vibrato. Learn more at epiphone.com.

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