Guitar

In which I show you the trick to getting bags of tone out of your guitar.

I said I would post a recording of the real thing, and it’s taken only a week longer than I’d planned, but I’m guessing you’re used to that by now.
Anyway, without further ado, and with only a discreet fanfare…

In this tiny recording studio, I’ve managed to squeeze in seven guitars but only one guitar amp. But what a monster it is!
It’s a Marshall 4140 ‘Club and Country’ 2 x 12 100 watt combo, made in 1978, covered…

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…

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…

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.…

Yup. I got around to it.
I threatened in the last post to supply some audio files which would help to illustrate the process of building the James Bisset 50th Anniversary Strat. And hey Ma! I done it!
I’ve also…

I’ve been looking through my web stats recently, and noticed some interesting terms used in the search queries which result in people visiting my site. “Sir James Bisset”? “Fiddling Electricity Meter”? Actually, I think I need to research that one…