It was great to meet so many musicians and dealers from around the world at the 2007 Music China show, and thanks to all of you who came to our booth to try our new series of analog guitar effects and rock out on the Tonerider loaded Strat, Tele and Les Paul guitars.  Click here to see our photo gallery from the show.   (Date: 24th Oct 2007; Posted by Andrew)

Dutch musician, Werner Rinia from the band GAIV, used our custom shop services to create his dream strat pickup set for his black Japanese '54 RI .   Werner asked for polished round alnico poles with our popular Classic Blues wind, and we were happy to oblige.  Here's what Werner has to say about the results: "I installed the custom Tonerider pickups together with an EC midboost, and replaced the saddles with titanium versions and I now have a guitar that amazes me every time I pick it up. Sound is crisp, and unbelievably tight and straight. Strum it, and it's like a harp. Chords are well defined and balanced; better than the Clapton Strat. Or any other that I've played in the past 23 years. Sounds are versatile, deep and clear. Fromkiller highs that don't actually kill because they stay away from anything remotely to do with shrillness, to deep, clear neck tones that go straight through your belly, this beauty will deliver it all. To make a long story short; I've got a winner. I owe Tonerider a lot of thanks for their service, personal attention and -of course- the best pickups I've come across in years. I 'm a fan."

(Date: 22nd Nov 2007; Posted by Andrew)

Tonerider City Limits into a Fender Bassman?  It's a recipe for a lot of fun for some young chaps in Ohio.   Nice work!  Click on the image link to be directed to the Youtube video.

(Date: 29 Sep 2007; Posted by Andrew)

The Brits are Chile's number one Beatles revival band and were invited to play a special set at Beatleweek Liverpool 2006 at the legendary Cavern Club.  Guitarist Francisco Jara now uses Tonerider Pure Vintage Stratocaster Pickups on his gorgeous custom strat - knicknamed "Rocky", built and painted by Goya Luthier.  Upcoming tour dates, soundfiles and a blog at www.thebrits.cl.  It really doesn't get much cooler than this!

(Date: 29th Sep 2007; Posted by Cass)

Pete Cornelius and The DeVilles have set the pace for many Aussie touring rhythm & blues bands. It's hard to pin point exactly what these boys are layin' down. Some say it's a mix of vintage West Coast Jump Blues with a Texan backbeat. Some just say it's damn good music! Whatever you want to call it, The DeVilles sure have their roots deep in that early American sound, when hollow-body guitars and fat gas guzzlin' Cadillacs roamed the streets.

(Date: 12th Sep 2007; Posted by Andrew)

How do Tonerider users in Chile decide between our three humbucker models: the PAF-infused Alnico IV Classic, the smooth and searing Rocksong model, and the full-on power of the Generator? Simple. Create a custom three-pickup guitar to showcase all three.  More fantastic work from Goya Luthiers and our local representative, Marcelo Jara.

(Date: 10th Sep 2007; Posted by Andrew)

All the way from Bologna in Italy comes the amazing guitar collection of Alessandro Guidice.   Alessandro is, as far as we know, the first Tonerider customer who has installed all four of our stratocaster pickup models (Pure Vintage, Classic Blues, Surfari and City Limits).  Rounding out the collection is a lovely cream HSH strat, featuring Tonerider Alnico V Generators humbuckers in the neck and bridge.  Fantastic work and a beautiful strat collection!

Brad McClain from Pop/Soul/Funk outfit Souloh has been in the studio laying down tracks for his upcoming "Shanghai EP". Brad is using Tonerider Alnico III Surfari pickups in his custom strat and the upcoming Tonerider Compressor pedal and American Overdrive pedal to get a nice, tight funky sound.  Samples of some of the tracks are available on their myspace page here.  Catch Brad and the boys at the House of Blues in Shanghai until Sept 10th.

(Date: 25th Aug 2007; Posted by Andrew)

Budding Luthier Piesax in Italy is on his fifth guitar build, and chose our Hot Classic Telecaster set for his latest axe, and has posted a lengthy detailed review and build report on the accordi.it musicians forum.  Read the original italian here.  Nice work!

Luke at Rebel Relic in Amsterdam is now our sole dealer in the  Netherlands, and is using Tonerider pickups exclusively on his line of Telecaster and Stratocaster relics!

"I find the Pure Vintage set  to be very versatile and generally sweet sounding at low and high volume - From slightly innocent white chocolate sweet to, sinful dark chocolate.   They have a very flexible palette to work off of. My favorite thing about the TRT1's is that it can jump from light to fright and you can still hear that it's from the same guitar with the same underlying sweetness to the tone."

Confirmed!  Thanks to gracious help of Johnny in Taiwan and Phyllis in Hong Kong we are now confirmed exhibitors at Music China 2007, which will be held at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center from Oct.17th to Oct 20th.  Our booth number is 4G18 in Hall W4.  As Asia's largest music show, this will be the first of the "Big Three" for Tonerider over the next year: We will attend our first NAMM Show in January 2008, and then the Frankfurt MusicMesse in March 2008.

(Date: 30th July 2007; Posted by Andrew)

Jakl Jaromir is a guitarist and effects pedal designer from the Czech Republic who created this fantastic looking telecaster from Warmoth Parts and a Tonerider Alnico IV Classic pickup set with our German-Silver nickel-plated covers. More details of the guitar can be found in the Warmoth customer showcase here.

(Date: 30 July 2007; Posted by Andrew)

GOYA Luthier is the go-to place for professional guitar making and repair shop services in Santiago Chile. We are extremely proud that they have selected Tonerider Surfari Alnico III strat pickups for a one-off, limited edition series of 24 custom strat-style guitars that will be made entirely with native woods from the Chilean highlands. Goya can be contacted via Marcelo Jara, the Tonerider agent in Chile.  Send an Email to pickups@tonerider.com and we can put you in touch.

(Date: 23 July 2007; Posted by Andrew)

Our Website has gone global, nearly. With the help and hard work of Marcelo, Jose, Bruno, Cass and Martin Liang we have managed to get our site into Spanish, Italian and Simplified Chinese.   Some spanish pages are still waiting to be formatted and should be up by about the 20th of July.

Any French or Japanese speakers who feel the irresistible urge to translate about 70 pages of our site into their respective languages should contact andrew@tonerider.com. 

(Date: 23 July 2007; Posted by Andrew)