James Bisset: 50th Anniversary Edition

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 it as part of the 50th Anniversary Edition equipment list.
So, before the family holiday burnt up [...]

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 the studio, which had a fine layer of smoke and tar over everything: fresh start, new [...]

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 also features staggered holes in the steel block through which the strings are threaded, which [...]

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 pouch of rolling tobacco.
And now, quite suddenly, here I am - smoke free.
I’m stressed, I hate [...]