Having a day job and doing music on the side sounds like a good deal, but I don't think there's really a way to balance it that doesn't give music the short end of the deal. I know for me that I...
Thanks Sam, you're too kind.
In comparison to making a guitar, this pickguard build was a bit of playtime.
As my journey continues, my respect for luthiers (not that I didn't have any) and...
Dagnab!
Back in 1982 the guy I was apprenticed to said something about fret-mills that has proven true about everything else:
"Sam, the first two hundred are the toughest."
You are so well...
This is a good era for 175's and a very good price assuming that the guitar needs no work.
The tuners have been changed. What else has been changed?
If I did not already have three 175's, I...
My impression is that 7alt in a ii V type situation is usually comped without a #11 and with either or both altered 9ths (more commonly the #9 than the b9, or so I think, without really good data on...
CC thanks for all that wonderful knowledge.
Yes the bandsaw should have been spot on, especially for the money. The company are coming round to have a look at it; we'll see what they say.
In...
^ I probably would have quit guitar anyway if I didn't hurt my finger. I wasn't fast either. I don't have fast twitch neurology in my dumb left hand. I didn't like the requirement of traumatizing...
I think since I succeeded in my every key program, I may as well take the next step and go on the pauln program. I'll try to learn everything by ear and if it's not perfect or I have to deviate then...
It's a well-known fact-NYC is filled with Mid-Westerners who just wanted to fulfill their childhood dreams of going to the NY they saw in the movies. Then, when they find out what a living hell it...
pauln program
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