Tesla high quality replacement pickups combine great tone and excellent value for players of all types of music, and are now available in the U.S. through JT Musical.

Tesla has been making inexpensive pickups for import brands throughout Asia, but these impressive looking boxed sets are made by a small core of dedicated musicians in Korea who have achieved great success in creating pickups with high performance features, using American-made Formvar and enamel-coated wire and cloth-covered lead wire.

The “Vintage Reflection” series offer the tonal performance of classic pickups built in the late ’50s and early ’60s, using components such as Alnico II and V magnets, American Formvar and enamel insulated wire, vintage braided and cloth lead wires. They offer outputs ranging from true vintage output such as the VR-1 single coils and VR-60 humbuckers, ceramic magnet high-output VR-Extreme humbuckers and P-Bass and J-Bass vintage replacements.

The “Plasma” series provide a serious combination of high output with noiseless performance for both single coil and humbuckers. The “Corona” series offer full-range, noise-free bass tone available in many popular configurations, for both four and five string basses.

For more information, visit their web site at www.jtmusical.com.

Stewart Guitar Company, Inc. announces a new option now available for their recently introduced Stow-Away™ import line of travel guitars.

Frequent requests for specific brand name pickups to match a customer’s existing guitar have not been possible in the past because of the extra time required for the modification (ordering the pickups/parts, installing the parts and wiring the pickup assembly). With our current backlog, we simple cannot program these changes into our production schedule.

With the help of Acme Guitar Works of Bear, Delaware, Stewart Guitar Company, Inc now offers pickup upgrades with electronics assemblies that can be installed directly into the Stow-Away. These pre-wired pickup assemblies from Acme Guitar Works can meet the special upgrade requests for the most demanding players by providing a premium electronics package that can be installed with a minimum of additional time.

Acme assemblies are available with a variety of quality pickups such as, Lindy Fralin, Jason Lollar, John Suhr, Seymour Duncan, Fender, and VanZandt. They use nothing but the best parts, such as CTS controls, Orange Drop caps, CRL, and Switchcraft switches and their wiring is impeccable.

For more information, visit their web site at www.stewartguitars.com.

The VS-F StroboFlip represents the latest release featuring Peterson’s Virtual Strobe™ tuning technology. With Peterson’s 1/10-cent accuracy—up to 30 times the accuracy of needle/LED tuners—the StroboFlip is at home on stage, in school, or on tech benches for doing instrument setups.

Peterson has greatly expanded its library to 33 tempered and Sweetened™ tunings. Along with the popular GTR & BAS sweetened tunings, the StroboFlip features unique new presets for acoustic guitar, DADGAD, 12-string guitar, E9th and C6th steel guitar, Dobro® and resonator guitar, violin, viola, and cello as well as both tuning and intonation offsets for Buzz Feiten Tuning System® equipped guitars.

The StroboFlip’s compact package includes a power supply, a tuning pickup, and a clamp for mounting to mic & music stands. Its flip design makes it easy and safe to transport, and its backlit front panel is great for stage use.

For more information, visit their web site at www.petersontuners.com.

Coffin Case has been busy developing a new aluminum designer plate series called Black Kross. The latest addition is the Black Kross Skullplate.

These new aluminum cases feature a skull and crossbones design embossed into the aluminum, creating a unique and sturdy exterior similar to diamond plate only with skull and crossbones.

The SK-125 guitar case features the skull and bones decorative aluminum exterior, with a plush diamond tucked black velvet interior that will fit all Strat shaped guitars as well as SG, PRS and most standard shape electric guitars (will not fit Les Pauls, Flying Vs or Explorers).

The SK-425 has the same features but is designed to fit most standard bass shapes, such Fender, Schecter, ESP, Yamaha, etc.

Features:

• Skull plated aluminum exterior
• Universal fit guitar or bass
• Black diamond tucked velvet interior
• Extra-large storage compartment
• Professional steel latches all with locks
• Aluminum tube trim
• Heavy-duty road approved handle

Specifications:
SK-125- 41″L x 14″W x 2.5″D (weight 16 lbs.)
SK-425- 51″L x 14.5″W x 3″ D (weight 20 lbs.)

For more information, visit their web site at www.coffincase.com.

Ritter has been making massive inroads into the hardshell case market with the introduction of 60 different models in 7 separate ranges. Two of these are the RW1000-6 Series and RW2000-6 Series guitar cases. Both feature multi-ply wood shell construction, metal Ritter logo, chrome hardware and black moulded handle.

The RW1000-6 has a stylish, strong, black velvet exterior underlined by white stitching, while the interior benefits from a padded, soft, black velvet trim.

Features of the RW2000-6 Series include a polyester fabric exterior, contoured, padded, plush interior and black leatherette trim. Colour coordinated with the RitterClassic Bag Series, these cases come with either a night black exterior with scarlet interior, or chocolate exterior with tangerine interior.

While both are designed to fit all dreadnought, classic, electric and bass instruments, the RW2000-6 Series will also accommodate archtop guitars.

For more information, visit their web site at www.ritter-bags.com.