Guitar

There are usually two reasons for building a ‘project guitar’. One is that you’ve never had quite the guitar you wanted, and yet you know exactly what it is you want, and the second is budget.

Fergus gets his chance to show what he’s made of (wood, mostly) in a return match at The Clarity and Sparkle Show.

A while ago, I delighted in the fact that my little Epiphone Valve Junior 5 watt practice amp had been modded to include a line feed from the output transformer. As aficionados will know, this means that I can get…

Harry Potter casts a Confundus on us all and I prove I really know bugger all about guitar wiring.

Well, my apologies to those of you who tune in with the naive hope that I’ve actually got some song writing or recording done.
Nope, I haven’t, but I am a step closer to getting the sound I want out…

A podcast in which 4 electric guitars face up to the challenge of competing on the Clarity and Sparkle Game Show. Who will be the lucky winner!

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…