James Bisset: 50th Anniversary Edition

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.
Where Gibson used animal glue and ’set’ necks, Leo Fender used screws. Where Gibson used exotic [...]

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 know, but I made a passing comment about Powergen fiddling my meter and threatened to [...]

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 web sites from the ground up, using dark magic spells and incantations from ancient grimoires like [...]