Ever-rocking guitarist Paul Guerin has a fetish for meaty Les Pauls and twangy Fenders and is also developing a nose for affordable gigging instruments. Lars Mullen pays him a visit Paul Guerin

WARWICK Adam Clayton Re verso Signature The Reverso is a reversed version of Warwick’s Explorer-influenced Stryker bass, and it’s built to U2 bassist Adam Clayton’s specs from top-quality exotic woods. The back

SQUIER Vintage Modified Jaguar Of the three Vintage Modified Squier models we reviewed in 2010, after the Precision, it was the VM Jaguar that got us all hot under the collar. The

Takamine rarely fails to impress with its annual limited editions, and this year’s ‘Iki’ is no exception. Meaning ‘the traditional aesthetic ideal that seeks to promote an emotional connection between the person

This GPCPA4 grand performance (read grand auditorium-size) model is one of Martin’s much more affordable follow-ups to last year’s PAI Performing Artists. The latter carry a multi-function Fishman Fl Aura imaging blender;

Here we have not only another sensibly priced cutaway grand auditorium but one that also comes with laminated koa back and sides, though this one has a solid spruce top. Glossy deluxe

This solid cedar-topped cutaway grand auditorium – one of Tanglewood’s latest Evolution Exotics – immediately beckons the eye courtesy of its koa back and sides. They’re not solid wood, and we wouldn’t

Named after its founder, self-confessed old American hippy Tom Bedell, this recently launched Chinese-made brand uses solid woods throughout all its guitars, and the BMB-17-G proves to be a right charmer. Officially

D-50 STANDARD This all-solid timbered dreadnought’s ‘Standard’ suffix might imply a poor-man’s reworking of Guild’s Traditional Series D-50, but the economies are minor given the near-£200 saving in price. The finish is

Wittily dubbed a ‘Takamini’, the solid cedar/mahogany GMINI-NS, with a body profile like a considerably scaled down Takamine mini-jumbo, is officially a so-called travel acoustic, yet its 13″ body span and relatively