Looking back many hundreds of years, early lutes were fretless, but they began getting frets from the late 16th century. These frets subdivide a fretboard so a string can be pressed anywhere ...

It's ok if you put it off – I've done it too, but sooner or later you will need to clean and polish your guitar frets. You owe your guitar the chance to be its best, and grimy oxidised frets are not ...

MusicNomad's wide range of guitar tools are not just for pro techs – they can help empower all of us players to maintain our gear more confidently. We've already seen how the US company's new ...

The ESP LTD TE-200DX electric guitar in Purple Burst is a thing of beauty, but you may need to get it setup to truly enjoy this instrument.

Since a soprano guitar is pretty much just like a normal guitar with more frets, this project also got an extended, 3D printed fretboard. Why? Because.

What is Fret Zealot? To best explain how Fret Zealot works, let's actually take a look at guitar tablature — the song-learning ciphers on which many budding rockers rely.

The guitar, pictured above, has similar black hardware and inlays to Mustaine's signature Flying Vs, with added witch-hat knobs. It sports 24 frets, his signature Seymour Duncan pickups, and a ...

That said, Satriani believes that the 24 frets on his signature Ibanez JS2450 guitar are plenty. "If it gets too high sometimes people don't know how to fit it in their ear," he explained.

Have you ever given much thought to your frets? Frets are made in a range sizes, all of which can have a big impact on not only how your guitar plays but also how it sounds. Here are five things ...

It isn't just the recently raided Gibson Guitar that is sweating, says Eric Felten. Musicians who play vintage guitars and other instruments made of environmentally protected materials are worried ...