The Builder's Bench

Doubling the bars...

Gibson Johnny Smith 1969

Gorgeous L7 on Reverb

Tin Man, America 1974

Borys B120

When it comes to not picking you guys are all amateurs https://youtu.be/-7R4mwOOyEQ

Do we nitpick too much about gear?

For clarification, Foley doesn't play guitar. He uses the so-called 'lead bass'. Interview: Foley - The Last Miles

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 82) - Mo Better Blues

I don't think so. An accurate tuning fork is pretty expensive, and only gives one note. That's a lot of money for very little return. Any cheap tuner is accurate to one cent, and better ones are...

Clip-on Tuner

Where are you located in the US?

Campellone Standard $4,500

OK, so there's this thing I've been doing for years where I double the amount of bars to the backing track when learning to improvise against something, so to take the simplest example, expanding a...

Doubling the bars...

Wow you weren't kidding. Beautiful burst and back on that one.

Gorgeous L7 on Reverb

My TC Polytune turns off automatically, even if I'm in the middle of tuning. That frustrates me, and I don't like it. That's the first tuner I remember having that feature/bug, the rest keep...

Clip-on Tuner

Right. But the range necessary to affect a 256 fork is far wider than we encounter when playing our guitars. In this typical experiment, one nominally 256 fork was 258 at 5C / 41F and 250 at 50C /...

Clip-on Tuner

Hi! I have a Gibson Johnny Smith from 1969 in sunburst for sale! It plays smooth with low action and 13´s. Straight neck. It does have a small repaired crack. Very well repaired by a luthier....

Gibson Johnny Smith 1969

That’s making an entry! Beautiful build. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

New guy and an ES-250 inspired build

That would be great :) what’s the best way to contact you further?

Factorial Rhythm by Mick Goodrick

Instant bump: #500 will be a Toob 10S Tweed Custom, just commissioned by a noted Finnish rock guitarist.

TOOB/Metro #500 up for grabs

I've always subscribed to this kind of reductionist approach - everything is either Tonic or Dominant. The subtleties can wait :) .... BUT... When trying to teach this to others (I used to teach a...

Frustrated Novice

Yes! That's better, good stuff! (I think that first one was some younger musicians, he was doing something with them. Made their day, I expect).

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 82) - Mo Better Blues

Same New Blues but different guitarists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa4M64E5lTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crc8_B4UoCI

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 82) - Mo Better Blues

Do we nitpick too much about gear?

Tube Guy Wanting to Convert to Solid State

Clip-on Tuner

Collings 470 JL Alternatives

Using Shell Voicings

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 82) - Mo Better Blues

Guitar of the Future

Heritage Carved tops

From transcribing to improvisation

What - No Gibson L4 CES?

Wood Shedding Giant Steps

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 81) - Bluesette

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