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When I worked at Gruhn guitars in Nashville I worked next to Matthew Klien, who went on to be the head programmer of the Gibson Custom shop. While at Gruhn’s around 1979-80 Matthew built several guitars for Billy Gibbons where he hollowed out the body and filled the cavity with balsa wood. These...

Flatwounds

Price point doesn’t always reflect relative quality.

I have API 2500 and API 5500 for sale both are in excellent condition with very little use in my private home studio. Like new. I’ll take $5k for the pair….or $2600 each. I can send pics to anyone interested.

I’ve made the Canjo’s with different length necks. I’ve made a really short one and I’ve made long ones and they all sound about the same. You are correct in that it’s closer to a diddly bow than it is to a Tele. But it also disproves the notion that the sound just comes from the pickup. The...

Mojo.

But the point of the click bait video of the bridge on the table was supposedly to prove that the sound is just about the string and the pickup. The Canjo video disproves it.

I was in a ten piece country band with 5 guitar players and we used 5 vibrochamps.

All the things you mention are variables, but no matter what variable you are trying to isolate whatever the bridge is directly coupled to becomes the ‘body’. Whether it’s the side of a house with a Diddly Bow, an alder Strat body, toilet seat, oil can or a table it’s still the body of the...

It’s a fact that this video implies there is no body that resonates, but in fact it is the table which will resonate at a resonance frequency which makes it the same as the body. Same thing with the toilet seat guitars we saw on Hee Haw in 1967. It’s actually more likely that the table will...

You do know this video is bogus, because there is a body on his test guitar which is the table the bridge is mounted on.

The other major difference is where the neck joins the body. I have both and they are entirely different guitars other than the body shape. The 330 is hollow and the 335 is semi hollow. The 330 is much better balanced weight wise. The guitar I mostly play is a Silvertone 1446 which is different...

Guitar players are smart.

The Buzz Feiten system may not be junk, but it is a scam. My shop was solicited by Buzz Feiten to get on board with his “tuning system” to become an authorized Buzz Feiten installer. First of all you had to commit to attending one of his seminars which was to ‘learn’ his process for around...

I like everything except the AI part.

Nice!

It’s too bad they were bad.

All those variables exist and are the reasons guitars are different. Personal taste and individual technique is also a factor. A guitar that is a great guitar for me might not be for you because we might play entirely different and are looking for different kinds of sound. That being said there...

Here is a pic of the guitar I built for Jason he didn’t pay nearly that much for mine….lol

As a kid we had these little cars with a big head driving it and he had a cigarette in his mouth. The cigarette was made from celluloid and you would light it and drive it around while the little guy would smoke his cigarette. The smell of it burning was very distinctive and years later working...