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Looking for basic information on your guitar? Try fretbase.com

Have a look at fretbase.com – good database for both guitars and gear which combines reviews & photos with some basic information on the model as it left the factory or maker. Also prices as new which is part of their business model.

Good resource.

keith

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Essential Guitar Blogs

Guitars crop up in the strangest of places!

There’s a lot guitar info out there on the web, both good and bad and these days I find that I’m getting the lions share of my daily guitar fix from a selected few blogs so I thought I’d start a list, kicking it off with some of my personal favorites!

http://5th-fret.blogspot.com/ – Extremely well written blog covering a broad range of guitar info

http://www.iheartguitarblog.com/ – Great gear reviews

http://guitarkadia.com/ – Particularly good artist interviews – check out the Videos section

http://sixstringlounge.com/ – Guitar talk, tips and news by Mark Lee of Third Day

http://www.guitartoybox.com/ – Always interesting eclectic mix of artist and gear news

http://guitarcollecting.co.uk/ – Great collectors site, feast your eyes on some of the rarest guitars around

http://www.guitarfixation.com/ – Gear oriented blog with great in depth maker interviews

http://www.guitarlifestyle.com/ – Gear and artist news – always has great videos I haven’t seen before

http://www.guitarnoize.com/ – More gear and artist news – well written and always entertaining

http://guitarplayerdaily.blogspot.com/ – News and reviews – has some great info on learning

I’ll be adding to this list as I come across more that I like, I should stress that this is a personal list, there are are of course many more blogs out there that have huge readerships in comparison to these. If you are blogging about guitars yourself or have personal favs you’d like to point us towards to check out do let us know… all additions to the above list will be most welcome!

Fintan

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Great guitar collecting resource

A guy called Flyssy in the UK runs a blog called www.guitarcollecting.co.uk. Unlike many guitar blogs we come across which exist as honeypots to lure traffic into clicking on adverts and affiliates links he takes the time to put up really useful information.

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This varies from commentary on guitars which come up for auction/sale around the world (for example these posts on the Hendrix 1967 Stratocaster or John Lennon’s Hofner), a series of posts on collectible guitars (36 so far) or his rebuild of a Westone Cutlass.

Have a look at his site and enjoy. Do you have any sites or blogs that you are happy to recommend? Please let us know in the comments and we will share them.

keith