The Trogly's Guitar Show
Week ending 25 September 2026
In the headlines
At the desk
- Fender is fitting Professional Class Strats and Teles with a Silent System, "a giant dummy coil underneath the pick guard", to cancel 60-cycle hum. 60 Cycle Hum himself remains unaffected.
- Trogly got his hands on a $30,000 Fender Custom Shop Violinmaster, based on Joshua Bell's 1713 Stradivarius. It has a dead fret, a loose internal part and neck dive. The Stradivarius has no frets, dead or otherwise.
Said
- 0:32 “PRS has come out with a new series today in response to them cracking down, or at least allegedly, the Defender series.”
- 4:28 “essentially what they're doing is they're putting a giant dummy coil underneath the pick guard right here and for the Stratocaster.”
- 1:47 “The Fender Violin Master is actually based on a real Antonio Stradivari Stradivarius violin. It's currently owned by Grammy award-winning violinists, Joshua Bell.”