Issue three of Eleven is here! In a first for the magazine, this issue features a split cover with two cover stars – Shermy Freeman from The Surfrajettes and Jennie Vee from Midnight Cowgirls and Eagles of Death Metal. Featuring eleven stories across 132 pages, whichever cover you receive, the contents are the same. In our cover features we hang out at a pink laundrette with Jennie Vee to talk about the connections between art, style and music, and we enter the kitsch and colourful world of Shermy Freeman, who is an inspiration to live your life sunny side up.

We discuss Bigfoot, skinwalkers and heavy metal in the Navajo Nation with the Paranormal Ranger, go surfing and visit a classic car show with Andy Powers to find out more about his SoCal-inspired electrics, and cruise across San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to visit one of the world’s premier collections of antique guitars.

We ruin yet another rental car driving into the desert to explore legendary recording studio Rancho De La Luna with Queens of the Stone Age co-founder David Catching, enter the mysterious world of the much-mythologised amp builder, Howard Alexander Dumble, and meet Jack White’s Kay archtop, a thrift store find that became the tool for the most iconic rock guitar riff of the modern age.

There’s plenty more vintage guitar content from a collection of golden-era Gibson and Fender guitars with stories to tell, including the earliest-known Telecaster and a Burst used in the studio by Eddie Van Halen. We also head to Pasadena to speak to R2R Electric about the allure of pedal-building with authentic vintage components. And we round off nicely with some playing tips from Nathaniel Murphy – fresh from soundtracking Harrison Ford during the Super Bowl ad break – who shares five ways to become a more creative guitarist.

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Eleven issue two is here! Featuring eleven stories over 132 pages, from talking spooky surf-guitar on a Tarantino-style film set with cover-star Olivia Jean, to up-close access to Dave Grohl’s Trini Lopez collection at Foo Fighters HQ.

We explore the racks of swap meet treasures at Wilco’s private recording studio, The Loft, in search of strange catalogue guitars from the atomic age, and grapple with an abundance of lutes when visiting the art galleries of London in pursuit of early representations of the guitar in painting.

Later, we take a walk through the marshes with folk musician Johnny Flynn and multi-award-winning author, Robert Macfarlane, in conversation on storytelling, collaboration and creative inspiration in the natural world.

We learn more about all the weird and wonderful inventions behind-the-scenes at Third Man Records with Jack White’s guitar tech, Dan Mancini, get nerdy about vintage tube amps with Colleen of Fazio Electric, and boldly go where no guitar photographer has gone before on a boutique B-movie inspired adventure into the desert with three little green men.

Issue two of Eleven includes so much more besides, from exploding effects pedals to a well-travelled Burst, to a mini masterclass with acclaimed guitar tutor and creator Paul Davids.

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Issue one brings you eleven features over 132 pages; from the challenges of resurrecting an early 1952 Goldtop that survived a tornado, to an up-close forensic examination of Kurt Cobain’s Smells Like Teen Spirit Fender Mustang, and the survival story of a cruise ship guitarist who saved over 500 passengers when the liner he was performing on began to sink off the coast of South Africa, only for the captain and crew to abandon ship.

Eleven shares interviews with artists and luthiers alongside detailed photo stories of the finest vintage guitars - from two of Fender’s rarest 1960s custom colours to a Burst rediscovered after decades in a basement. We talk golden-era collectibles and guitar photography with Gibson photographer Mitch Conrad. There’s even a mini masterclass on how to take better photographs of your own guitar.

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