Progress

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…

It’s always been on my to do list to have an audio player on the site, so that as well as having links to audio files, there would be some way of listening to the tunes or podcasts without readers…

Time to get my iPod synchronised.
As I’m now a veteran podcaster with four (yup 4!) podcasts under my belt, I though it was time to suss out how to subscribe to podcasts using iTunes and my iPod.
The James…

Gagged. I think that’s the word.
Ahh, the wonder of the internet and the power of the blog.
About three months ago I wrote here about the experience of getting my iMac repaired after repeated problems with the hard disk.…

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…