2006Archive

As my avid readers know, the hub of the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition is a 20″ 1.8 gHz iMac, which takes pride of place in the studio. But recently, I’ve been getting even less stuff done than usual, because when I…

Ah yes, the truss rod…
When I was but a young lad, dreaming sleep away with erotic dreams of sinuous, curved Fenders and dark, sweet Gibsons which shamed my clunky third rate guitars, a truss rod was just the thing…

OK, I know it’s not a fair contest.
The Yamaha FG200 is from another millennium, when budget guitars were made from plywood (sorry, laminated tonewoods ) and the Freshman is made of solid woods throughout, 21st century and designed to…

Gulp! I’ve bought a new guitar…
As if things weren’t confusing enough already, with all this technology updating faster than my learning processes can cope with, I finally decided that my 30 year old plywood Yamaha FG200 just didn’t cut…

One of the interesting side effects of stopping smoking is that the extended mid-life crisis that is the 50th Anniversary Edition is now having a little mid-life crisis of its own.
Having stopped smoking, it was time to clean out…

With a replacement bridge in place, all is well with the world. I have a Wilkinson ‘vintage’ bridge with 2 1/8 inch string spacing and 2 3/16 inch spacing screws and that seems to work very nicely thank you. It…

Yup. I’ve stopped smoking.
To be honest, I’m not quite sure how it happened. I certainly didn’t ask for it. It was one of the simple pleasures that got me through the night: a bottle of red wine and a…

I’ve always delighted in the fact that Leo Fender was a radio repairman and not a luthier, and that the Gibson versus Fender debate could also be seen as an argument over traditional luthier skills versus a funky engineer’s inventions.…

In February I wrote about the search terms that lead people to this site. One of them oddly, seems to be ‘fiddling electricity meter’. Whether that’s because I’ve written about my fiddle-playing, electric guitars and audio level meters I don’t…

You’re probably wondering what’s going on here, or rather what’s not going on here. I haven’t managed to post in weeks. In fact I haven’t even touched a guitar in weeks.
Instead, I’ve been teaching myself how to hand-code e-commerce…