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It's a little like a George Benson with the acoustics of a hand built jazz box. That's an exceptional and unique guitar for the right person. I love the size.
Whether it's original doesn't really matter. What you need is to match the holes in the tailpiece with the holes in the rim. Of course, if you don't care about extra holes, or already have some,...
The usual "straight" saddle is not straight across. If you look closely, you'll see that it slants from e to E when the base is perpendicular to the strings. For some string sets, a properly...
Thanks for that memory! I sold the Les Paul. I honestly can't remember what I was thinking, but it might have been that plinkiness that some guitars have above about the 10th fret on the high E...
That calls for an apocryphal "university professors of marketing" story! I got my MBA from St Joe's many years ago the old fashioned way - 2 years, in person, no internet! We had 6 person teams in...
I don't know who you is here, but let's make this simpler: which design gives the most accurate intonation with all strings for a common steel string set with a wound G, in standard tuning? With...
Rick, I remember your 76 L-5S. That was a beautiful guitar and if memory serves me, it sounded damn good. That guitar probably had patent stamped humbuckers as I don't remember if they were making...
What I have is not an original tailpiece, so getting out my ruler won’t help much, unfortunately :)
Leo Fender liked the three bolt neck and you will find them on G&L guitars. My understanding is that CBS did not do a good job with them and as a result, they got a bad reputation. CBS era Fenders...
I see two outputs on many delays and choruses with only one input. But many are just parallel mono outputs. And many “stereo” effects with 2 inputs are just paired mono channels and require a 2...
Examples abound! No one wanted 3 bolt Fenders when they made the switch from 4. For no good reason, everyone assumed that 3 were inferior - and maybe they were, but I never saw any kind of...
Guitar players often pay for what is in their imagination rather than what is in their ears.
Upon reflection, I'd add this. The foundation of good jazz is rhythmic feel, aka, time feel. It's hard to write about, so on-line posts tend to focus on topics that are easier to describe in...
What I find especially funny about all the esoteric discussion of Gibson pickups is that the consensus for many years was that it was all downhill once they got the patent. In 1978, nobody was...
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