Guitar, Amps & Gizmos

Floating Biltoft pickup

Some thoughts while working on a guitar

Questions for you Barry Harris disciples /...

Chord charts & backing tracks

Kalamazoo Award ($17,000) - Pickup Rockford Mi

Spruce neck???

Jonathan Kreisberg's headless guitar from Thailand

Mine has the same headstock inlay. What years did they use it? I hadn't noticed the f holes had change.

Cheap hollowbody or archtop recommendations?

I like the acoustic quality of my acoustic designed guitars, and I add a floater, yes, so I can play amplified. I also like the sound of a humbucker in my laminate 16". There's nothing like that...

Some thoughts while working on a guitar

Thanks for the photo of the headstock and the nut width - wish I were closer so I could possibly stop by and check out the guitar in person ...

2001 Heritage 575 Spruce top - $2750

A fairly frequent Facebook occurrence is that I find out about a gig I would have liked to attend, but only after it has happened. Perhaps someone knows how to avoid that when you post your own...

How to promote yourself and social media etc :)

I have an older acoustic I’d like to match with a floating Biltoft pickup. Either with a tongue for the pickguard or with a neck bracket. Thanks, Josh.

Floating Biltoft pickup

that guitar is priced below market value. Say what you will about "borys will make you a new one for $x". That comes with a waiting period and uncertainty. This is available today and priced well...

2022 Borys B-120

There are two Sadowsky Frank Vignola models (sunburst and black) for sale from a Japanese dealer here -- Sadowsky Guitars

Sadowsky Frank Vignola/SS-15 two pickup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaLYVe8cICA

Great Examples of a Good Jazz Guitar Tone

ok thanks

2022 Borys B-120

Could you elaborate on the differences? I've never played a Johnny Smith and an L-5 side by side -- or, probably even within a year or two of one another! -- so I have no audio memory to rely on.

Some thoughts while working on a guitar

That's actually standard pitch on a 24" scale length. It's the only guitar I own that isn't tuned down. That's why I use this guitar for tutorials. I'm in the midst of switching out the pickup for...

4 Micro Lessons, all under a minute, no talking.

Personally, I am an acoustic archtop player at heart. With the exception of my 2005 Super 400ces all my others are acoustics with floaters or no pickup. They are a different animal in many ways. You...

Some thoughts while working on a guitar

I recently decided to install a new ebony bridge on my Epiphone Zephyr Regent. After all the sanding and everything I was astounded by the sound. It was so much more alive and the back was super...

Some thoughts while working on a guitar

They're from TK Smith. The Epiphone is one he cutomized for himself. The "tele" IS a bigsby just has a tele body shape. He designed it with a lot of input from me (including the epiphone inlays). ...

The best LOOKING guitar you own......

Thoughts on triplet-swing.

Plectrums for acoustic jazz

Baldness

Being entertaining.

Stella by Starlight 2025 w/Video

On smaller speakers...

More Ed Bickert

Cheap hollowbody or archtop recommendations?

Moving from bedroom to stage...

Music In My Head

Chunking, does it work for Jazz improv?

2022 Borys B-120

Bending