The Picker’s Guide is funded by affiliate links. Here is what that means in plain English.
When I recommend a guitar or a piece of gear, I sometimes link to a retailer that stocks it. If you click one of those links and buy something, the retailer pays this site a small commission. It costs you nothing extra. The price you pay is the price you would have paid anyway.
The retailers I work with, or have applied to work with, include Gear4Music and Reverb, through the Awin affiliate network.
Commissions never decide what I recommend. When a cheap guitar does the job better than an expensive one, I say so, even though the cheaper guitar earns a smaller commission. Nothing here is sponsored. Manufacturers don’t pay for placement and don’t see articles before you do.
If you want to support the site, buying through the links is the way to do it. If you’d rather not, that’s fine too. The advice is the same either way.