Seems everybody’s having anniversaries.  PRS are 25 and are celebrating by getting you to give them money.  In return, however, they’ll give you guitars.  And not just ordinary guitars, but 25th Anniversary models.
Quite plush they are too.  They’ll have all of the usual PRS snazziness built in – you know the story – and will feature new colours, special binding and the anniversary inlays (you can see some in the image above). These are the 25th Anniversary Shadow Birds.  If you like the PRS birdie inlays, these are a nice …

…Not really, of course.  It’s a ski joke… Downhill… Get it?
Gibson have collaborated with, ski manufacturer, Marker Völkl to produce a couple of ski-culture (my words) guitars.  Some new skis from Völkl were inspiration for the Black Les Paul Custom below and the V above is inspired by Marker’s Rule The Mountain slogan.
The guitars will be built at the Custom Shop in Nashville and will be on display through the winter before being auctioned at the SIA Show in January.  The proceeds from the Les Paul will go to Protect …

I AM NAVARRO!  I BEAR GIFTS FOR LUCKY MORTALS!  SEE MY BOSS PEDAL.  YOU WANT IT.  I KNOW YOU WANT IT, PUNY MORTAL. DO NOT BE COY, LEST I TRANSFORM INTO A SWAN AND RAVAGE YOU.
The words of Dave Navarro, there, who is one of the guitar celebs that are helping BOSS out with their new giveaway competition.
Every two weeks, until the end of the year, Boss are giving away a different pedal, signed by a guitary supreme being (The Navarro, Frank Gamble, Yngwie Malsteem and Lincoln Brewster).  Oh, and …

Ibanez are joining a number of other manufacturers in encouraging customers to buy as the year approaches its end.  To that end, they’ve announced a number of promotions that, if you’ve been considering buying an Ibanez product, might well be of interest.
Top of the heap is a $200 rebate on selected Satriani and Via guitars.  If you buy one and send proof of purchase to Ibanez, they’ll, very kindly, present you with two hundred bucks in return.  Not to be sniffed at.
A $100 rebate is available on certain RG1570 Prestige …

Not content with their AmpliTube-related giveaway to the end of October, IK Multimedia have extended it until December 31st, ’09.  That’s two more months of freebies from the Amplitube people.
And, as if that weren’t enough, they’ve also upped the giveaway ante by now offering 4 for the price of 1 instead of the 3 for 1 they had been doing.
If you buy one item from a selection of AmpliTube products they’ll give you, for no extra monies, three – that’s three – other AmpliTube products.
There’s a small catch.  You’ll only …

A trip down Nashville way this week.  Off to Gibson Guitars with that bloke from that show – what’s his name?

You’re a millionaire playboy guitarist with a vintage Fender or you’re just someone with one of many current or past Fender originals and reissues.
Whatever the case, you’re finding that those big blues bends that you love doing are buzzing or, worse still, choking-out completely and dying. Your guitar plays fine and buzz-free the rest of the time but as soon as you go for a nice, soulful, bent note, it buzzes or chokes.
Annoying.
Possibly more annoying is when I tell you that there’s a good chance it’s just a limitation …

PRS is not ungrateful.  Provided you live in the US of course.
If you are States-based, and you buy yourself a shiny new PRS guitar – from an authorised PRS dealer – between October 15th and December 31st, 2009, you can get yourself a big thank you from PRS.
All you need to do is to send a copy of your receipt and the serial number of your axe to PRS and they will send you the PRS Thank You Pack which includes PRS-branded picks, strap, strings and cleaning kit.  Oh, …

You know the story – you’re mid solo and about to move the audience to tears of awe and emotion with some poignant vibrato action.  You reach for your trem and… nothing.  It’s not where you left it.  The damn thing’s flapped all over the place during your last number and is now pointing backwards.  Your fumbling about for it ruins the moment.  The audience is lost.  They start to throw pint-pots and Pringles tubes – eeeeuuuuww, original flavour.
There is a solution to loose and flappy whammy bars.  Meet the …

Ok, the Reverse V has always looked a bit weird to me but who wouldn’t want the chance to actually own one?
Gibson and The Gay Blades are giving one away.  A snazzy white one just like the one pictured here.  All you need to do is go to The Gay Blades site and follow the easy instructions which, basically, just require you to send them an email answering ‘who is your favourite guitar player?’  I’m relatively sure that it’s not a trick question where all answers referring to non-Gay Blades …