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"Here is a nice link about making your own coil PUP that may help. http://www.instruc…" JL replied Aug 12, 2014 to Troubleshooting my first electric guitar build.	38	Aug 13, 2014 Reply by Amanda Potter
"The poles of the magnets need to all be pointing the same way." JL replied Aug 10, 2014 to Troubleshooting my first electric guitar build.	38	Aug 13, 2014 Reply by Amanda Potter
"A Capacitor acts like a short circuit to a high frequency signal and acts like an op…" JL replied Aug 6, 2014 to CAPACITORS	9	Aug 6, 2014 Reply by The Phrygian Kid
"I use fret to bridge distances, with fret #0 is the nut. 22.5000 021.2372 120…" JL replied Aug 6, 2014 to 22.5 build	5	Aug 7, 2014 Reply by Bluesheart
"ReturnToSender...I do the same thing to refill my weekwacker spool, LOL" JL replied Aug 6, 2014 to Troubleshooting my first electric guitar build.	38	Aug 13, 2014 Reply by Amanda Potter
"Welcome. What is the alleyrat's body from, or did you make that box?" JL replied Aug 6, 2014 to An introduction (with pictures)	22	Aug 7, 2014 Reply by Seth Kent
"I'm scratching my head trying to understand what you mean by "won't seat"??? …" JL replied Aug 6, 2014 to Mounting Waverly tuners	28	Aug 7, 2014 Reply by grondon oconnor
"perhaps your friendly neighborhood Piano store/repair might have something in the .1…" JL replied Aug 5, 2014 to Where to get Low B strings?	9	Aug 7, 2014 Reply by ReturnToSender
"could you include a picture of the headstock while strung with from the previous pic…" JL replied Aug 5, 2014 to Where to get Low B strings?	9	Aug 7, 2014 Reply by ReturnToSender
"If you soldered to the RING and SLEEVE on the audio connector you will definitely ge…" JL replied Jul 31, 2014 to Troubleshooting my first electric guitar build.	38	Aug 13, 2014 Reply by Amanda Potter

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JL's Discussions (1,093)

"Here is a nice link about making your own coil PUP that may help. http://www.instruc…"

"The poles of the magnets need to all be pointing the same way."

"A Capacitor acts like a short circuit to a high frequency signal and acts like an op…"

"I use fret to bridge distances, with fret #0 is the nut. 22.5000 021.2372 120…"

"ReturnToSender...I do the same thing to refill my weekwacker spool, LOL"

"Welcome. What is the alleyrat's body from, or did you make that box?"

"I'm scratching my head trying to understand what you mean by "won't seat"??? …"

"perhaps your friendly neighborhood Piano store/repair might have something in the .1…"

"could you include a picture of the headstock while strung with from the previous pic…"

"If you soldered to the RING and SLEEVE on the audio connector you will definitely ge…"

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