There are thousands of guitar accessories on the market. Some are meant to make you play better, some are meant to make cleaning your guitar easier; some are meant to make your guitar spew bars of gold from the amp jack.

So with only two types of pickups on two forms each, finding pickups should be easy, right? While those are the basic statistics, there are actually hundreds of different pickups. Each fall into those four categories, but each have their own unique sound.

There are thousands of guitar accessories on the market. Some are meant to make you play better, some are meant to make cleaning your guitar easier; some are meant to make your guitar spew bars of gold from the amp jack.