Recent content by onlyfingers

I won't do it. When I had to spend a week in LA on business, I looked into renting a guitar for my stay. No go. Then I though of buying one to use while I was there, but I couldn't work in a used guitar shopping trip ahead of the work I had to do. At no time did I consider bringing my guitar...

Alright, a fifth paragraph... (Just let me add that twice at Home Depot I bought "used" stuff as new, because they just re-stocked their returns without checking them out. I was able to use the used aluminum deck supports, and they were not too expensive, and considering time and mileage, it...

I don't know, that's why there are four paragraphs. I don't have any experience with GC returns, and I think we will hear from some who do have the experience. But you may have to earn your $150 through good negotiating skills. On your side: the return policy may not have been explained to you...

The word "boutique" may not help us understand bou·tique (bū-tēk') n. A small retail shop that specializes in gifts, fashionable clothes, accessories, or food, for example. A small shop located within a large department store or supermarket. A small business offering specialized products...

Little pieces instead of the big picture The key may be in the last line of your post, where you mention "Play barre chords along with his CDs." If you are picking exercises, pick them from the very music that your student likes. It doesn't have to by barre chords. It can be as simple as...

Don't try this at home. Maybe treat it sort of like you would treat a scratch on a car. Use rubbing compound to bring the surface even, then use wax to protect and shine. I have heard that furniture makers use various grades of pummice to do the function of rubbing compound. If you can learn...

Subway: I want to be there Hey, Rayc Nice looking guitar. (Two is fine on an archtop, isn't it? Six is a made-up number.) I have browsed over to Subway Guitars, and studied it pretty closely when I was thinking about Danelectro. I liked the idea that he makes "current-production" instruments...

I don't like car-racing, not that there's anything wrong with that Very few have done it. Charlie Chaplin and Mel Brooks made successful satires or comedys using Hitler. But, as we are seeing here, most people will be offended first and think about the joke second when we are glib about Adolph...

Stop that for a start. We live in a troubled world. Someone asked me the other day "Where is the outrage?" I grew up in the '60s, a time when the status quo was not considered a given, and, generally speaking, it was thought that individual voices could be combined to bring political and...

I'd walk in your shoes, but your feet stink. Yikes, yikes, yikes. Walk in the other guy's shoes a minute. 1. The customer is not always right. 2. A company should stand behind the commitments its employees make on its behalf. (That's the other side to "the customer is not always right": the...

Frets.com has some help. My recommendation is to install the strap button on the heel of the guitar, so the button points mosty at the floor, instead of pointing at your belly or toward the headstock. If you install it pointing toward your belly, the "button hole" on the strap pulls directly...

Chronicle 1946 Fender Musical Instrument Company founded 1948 George Fullerton joins Fender, and he and Leo Fender collaborate on the Broadcaster, later renamed as the Telecaster. 1950 Broadcaster introduced. 1951 Telecaster introduced 1952 Gibson Les Paul introduced Sources...

Guitar lust in the movies Wanna see a Telecaster up close and personal in the movies? Check out I Walk the Line about Johnny Cash. Some nice looking instruments in that movie, and some nice photography, too. I don't know, but it sounds like a guitarist named Luther Perkins played guitar in...

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there... Yes, the one in the comics, that makes sort of "Zen-like" statments that some of us just don't get, much like the title of your post.

Go figure. It doesn't mean much to me, but the cueing capability is a big deal there, I bet. My minidisk replaced an audio cassette, so I stick with a piece of gear a long time. So when BestBuy doesn't have blanks anymore, know where to go.