We didn’t do many guitar opinions this 12 months as we centered on pedals, punk rock, and simply received busy with life.

Whereas Guitars For Fool received to have fun the 5 12 months mark in 2024, one main bummer was the dearth of guitar opinions. The reality is, I attempted to essentially be sure that I didn’t double-review this 12 months, which had been a mainstay these previous couple of years. What’s a double-review? It’s once I would get a guitar in to overview on Final Guitar, after which additionally submit a completely completely different overview right here. As nice as that was, it made quite a lot of content material very redundant, even when I used to be reviewing utilizing completely completely different scales, processes, and codecs.

I actually wished 2024 to be the 12 months that this website operated nearly totally impartial from my job as tech editor at Final Guitar. That objective was successful, as this 12 months we had superior pedal opinions from impartial builders, a giant interview with SWMRS, and plenty of articles about punk rock. However with out doing a gentle stream of opinions that duplicated all the nice gear I coated for Final Guitar, I used this weblog to focus on enjoyable guitars that got here into my life in 2024. As such, there’s no true “guitar overview rating” article for the web site this 12 months. As an alternative, let’s simply take a fast look again in any respect the superior guitars we did speak about .

In 2024 I fell in love with this low cost Squier Paranormal Esquire Deluxe, because it was a terrific combo between a Les Paul Junior and a Tele for a hell of a deal.

I additionally tried the brand new Fender Participant Sequence II Telecaster and was impressed on the refinements they made to the all the time enjoyable Tele method.

My Moon Guitars Asteroid lastly arrived and wowed me, ending my pursuit of a real Les Paul Junior guitar after a decade. This factor is severely beautiful and has been a breeze to play, nice work from Kyle over at Moon Guitars and greatest needs to him as he continues to construct guitars however does so from a brand new house out West.

Jade Works Devices launched the MD96, and I received the primary one, which is type of a prototype however nonetheless a completely good guitar that I discover myself enjoying lots!

I additionally tried their Butterfly guitar, which was constructed and listed on the market to boost cash for a completely nice trigger. The guitar itself was additionally beautiful, with extremely chime and physique.

It might not have matched the output of 2023, 2022, 2021, or 2020 however it was superior to cowl all of those guitars this 12 months. There have been a couple of extra guitars that have been presupposed to make the lower, however for an enormous number of causes we needed to slim down the listing this 12 months. There’s all the time 2025 to strive once more, and we’ll definitely see how the 12 months goes and what alternatives lay forward.

Thanks for sticking with us for an additional 12 months, let me know what you need to see extra of or much less of subsequent 12 months, and all the time be at liberty to succeed in out and chat within the feedback, over electronic mail, or on social media!