Many of my readers know that I am getting ready to build a guitar. This is where I will start. It is a piece of an American Walnut, also known as Black Walnut log. It measures about 14″ to 19″ in diameter and is about 30″ long. A very cool thing about this log is [...]
January 23, 2009 – 10:47 am
Here is a little vibe I picked up and will implement in regards to how I bolt a neck to a Fender Stratocaster guitar. The method I will describe can be done to any Stratocaster, but this will be focused on a Strat built from scratch.
This is an experiment for the most part. I don’t [...]
January 8, 2009 – 11:19 am
This article is by George Ellison of Acme Guitar Works. I had the pleasure of meeting George and he runs a top notch outfit specializing in electrical components for your guitar. Enjoy
A common request of a repair person is a setup with “low action, no buzz”. However, as the action goes lower on any [...]
December 29, 2008 – 10:59 am
Lets review what goes on when your guitar strings fret-out. Fretting-out is when you are pressing the guitar strings in the process of playing a note or chord with your fretting hand, and one of the strings actually touches a higher fret during playing the guitar, thus causing a string a buzz or completely mute [...]
December 23, 2008 – 11:55 am
Guitar Players Center is now grooving to the many responses we got concerning the details of building a guitar. I think we got about 8-10 really helpful ideas and suggestions to help solve my pickup problem in particular. As grateful as I am for the suggestions, it just made things more confusing and fun. Now [...]
October 9, 2008 – 10:50 am
One of my cohorts and friends who also blogs about guitars wrote an article about potentiometers. Buck from Buck’s Guitar Modifications posted a nice article about rebuilding pots. I don’t have a beef at all, in fact I agree with him very much. It actually caused my one half of a working brain cell to [...]
October 6, 2008 – 9:38 am
The techniques laied out in the article “Repair techniques for a heavily worn guitar neck” are fairly advanced methods of wood repair. They also take a lot of experience, literally years of practice. In other words, you will need a piece of scrap to practice on, don’t ruin your guitar.
Even when you click on the [...]
October 3, 2008 – 11:20 am
A friend of a good friend of mine, Ovidiu of Guitar Flame contacted me recently about how one might go about fixing the wear on this 1971 Fender Guitar Stratocaster neck. This is an example of extreme wear, it reminds me a bit of “Lenny”, Stevie Ray Vaughn’s guitar. It has a similar amount of [...]
September 30, 2008 – 10:38 am
The challenge of repairing guitars is a constant learning process. ‘Practice makes perfect’ is a great saying and directly applies to guitar repairs too. Except no one is perfect or produces perfect results at anything every time. The two most sought after questions regarding tone have to do with the electric guitar wiring underneath [...]
September 5, 2008 – 10:27 am
Why not make your own guitar? Realistically speaking, I can think of more reasons why not, than why you should. For the most part, building a guitar is for advanced woodcrafters. I don’t mean a general contractor who builds houses either.
A guitar maker is called a ‘luthier’, and by any standard a [...]
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