I'm sure this must have been asked before but I can't find it if it has.
OK. You are messing about on the guitar and you come up with the germ of an idea and start elaborating on it. How do you record (not necessarily sound recording but any form of
Read more…Just a little reminder. Coming up this Friday (10th June 2011) in Luton is the legendary Chickenbone John. Details here. If anyone from this area plans to go and is traveling round the M25 in either direction and fancies teaming up with others along
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I find this fascinating. Police mugshots of rock and pop stars (and others). Look as Chase Jarvis' blog for some, and How to be a retronaut for some more.
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This might make you think twice about needing a slide.
I was hoping I could embed the video in this page. I'm sure there must be a way to do it, but obv
Read more…I got this today from Chickenbone John. He will be in Luton on Friday 10th June. A rare opportunity to see and hear him without the need for a passport and jabs to go up to the frozen midlands (sorry, laying it on a bit thick).
Even though it's much
Read more…I recently strung up my third guitar. This one has a mag pickup so I used electric strings. I used strings 3, 4 and 5 just as I had on my previous two (with acoustic strings). With the acoustic sets only the thinnest two strings are unwound. With thi
Read more…There are lots of people putting lots of photos up on this site. That's great, but how often have you looked at a photo and been a bit puzzled by it. Well, I get puzzled all the time. So many people put up little or often no description to go with th
Read more…Hi. I am making an adjustable bridge for my third instrument (Roadkill 3). It has a brass base plate which is starting to look a bit art deco. Thing is, I would like it to look tarnished but in working it I have had to file and paper it and it is now
Read more…I wanted to learn Death Letter by Cassandra Wilson. Trouble was that it was in the wrong key. OK, I could have retuned but it meant either going very tight or very loose and sloppy (not good to be loose and sloppy). I found a bit of software called V
Read more…I hope this hasn't been asked before. I have searched and couldn't find the answer. I see instruments with fret markers on the side of the neck and on the front of the fretboard. If you can see the side ones, why have the big ones on the fretboard? I
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I have just strung up my first fretted instrument. The frets seem to be in the right place (have carefully rechecked and all seems well). I had read elsewhere that when fingering you place the finger just behind the fret and that when using a s
Read more…John's stupid question No. 257.
Looking at photos of guitars with magnetic pickups, particularly those with multiple pickups, there is sometimes one pickup at an angle. Where it is angled it seems to be most often the one nearest the bridge and the
Read more…Something has been niggling at me. If you look at the bridges on most CBGs you see that the bridge is at an angle. OK. I know why, but what I don't know is why it isn't always the same angle. In other words, what determines the angle? I understand th
Read more…Hi. Not stricly about wiring, but about mounting magnetic pickups. Normal parctice seems to be to have two screws that allow the pickup to be adjusted for height and those are normally visible either side of the pickup. The question that I have is ab
Read more…Hi. I am about to start my second, third and fourth instruments. They will be fretted (a three string, a four string and a strummer), unlike my first. I am a novice player and so have not got used to anything except the first guitar.
The issue of s
Read more…Hi. I have built my first 3 string which is a fretless and I'm just starting to learn to play the thing. I have no previous guitar experience. The thing sounds fine with the slide but really dead and muted when fingered. I'm pretty sure that people a
Read more…Hi there. I am planning my next few instruments. A strummer as a test bed, three string fretted and four string fretted. Playing around with tuner arrangements. The heads I see often look quite large with the tuners spread out. Nothing wrong with tha
Read more…Hi. For a few days now I have been unable to get any results in any of the search fields anywhere on this site. Forums, groups photos. Not a sausage. I have even tried really common terms such as cigar, guitar, build, neck and fret. Nothing. I get a
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