A few weeks ago, at Guitar Summit 2025, I had a conversation with Anders Nicklasson of True Temperament – partly for a feature I was working on for Rolling Stone Germany ( you can read that here ). True Temperament shared a booth with Mattias “IA” Eklundh, whose Freak Guitar Lab instruments are also equipped with the company’s distinctive fretting system. For anyone unfamiliar, True Temperament is the Swedish company behind those instantly recognizable “squiggly frets” — a gr