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Gear Of The Year 2017: Electric Guitars under £1,000
If you’re looking for a serious instrument on a budget, you won’t go far wrong with any of these…
Winner
Fender Duo-Sonic HS
• Price £509
• Reviewed December 2016
• Contact Fender EMEA 01342 331700 www.fender.com
Fender brought back the classic 1956 body shape of the original Duo-Sonic for this affordable reinvention of the company’s much-loved student model.
The resulting guitar mashes together the best of the Duo-Sonic’s many iterations over the years – with the ultra-playable 24-inch scale neck and Custom Colour vibe of the golden era meeting a rock-ready hardtail bridge and Duo-Sonic humbucker – all put together by the dependable folks at Fender Mexico.
Plug in a fuzz pedal, turn up the volume and get lost in an ocean of glorious grungey fun.
We said “Modern-day noiseniks and old-school fans of the Seattle sound will love this; it’s more robust than vintage examples, too”.
Highly Commended
• Price £769
• Reviewed October 2017
• Contact Andertons Music 01483 456777 www.chapmanguitars.co.uk
We said “With its lovely neck, ergonomic body design and custom appointments, this is a truly impressive T-type for the modern player that genuinely offers something different”.
• Price £289
• Reviewed May 2017
• Contact Sutherland Trading 02920 887333 www.sutherlandtrading.com
We said “With features inspired by several classics, this cheap and toneful offset semi covers a lot of ground in the studio and on the road”.
• Price £765
• Reviewed July 2017
• Contact Barnes & Mullins 01691 652449 www.shergoldguitars.com
We said “A true rock guitar in vintage-vibed clothing, with tones that go from full-on hard rock to fat blues all the flick of a selector switch”.
To find out which other products scooped Gear Of The Year awards, get your copy of the January 2018 issue of The Guitar Magazine here.