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Just to add my opinion to Muttley's, I have never noticed a difference to anything but open strings from a bone nut, and would never suggest you change nut materials for sonic reasons - it is worth doing because it will give you more durability and tuning stability, not because of a change in...

Seymour Duncan makes some nice mini humbuckers. It's been a while since I last put them in a guitar, so I don't remember much of the character, but I do remember them being pretty nice, and I would say chimey is as good a description as any. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

WEEEEELLLLLLLL...I wouldn't want to do it without a set of nut files now days, but once upon a time they didn't exist, and had to make do with other tools. Well, more to the point, no one had noticed Grobet files (I'm not sure if that is the style of file, or a brand name, but whatever) were...

Yes, you will need a new nut. In my shop, it would cost around $90-125. But you'll get a much better (bone) nut out of it, so its worth it. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Fairly well done. I don't worry about taking them all off at once, but then when I'm changing strings for a customer I'm always at least cleaning the fingerboard, so I have to take them all off. And I didn't notice you actually telling people to cut the excess string, but I was kind of speed...

It will not work - they attach in completely different ways, and very few acoustics have the same scale. If you want a smaller 12 string neck, you will need to get it in a custom made guitar. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

If you have an inch between the strings and the frets at any point, you have problems which can not be fixed at the bridge/saddle, and the neck bow isn't going to do the trick either. You've almost certainly got a problem with the neck set - as Muttley said, NOT a DIY job. Light "Cowards can...

Pickup Wire Seriously, there is absolutely no reason to try to salvage pickup wire (particularly off a crappy pickup). Though I suppose I should mention, I see absolutely no reason to build your own pickups - there are a lot of extremely good, very reasonably priced pickups on the market...

You know, for the guitar maker it all comes down to one simple thing - can I make a profit on it? That's the whole thing. Take Martin. They did a really small run of Linda Ronstadt Signature guitars - and have sold something less than 25% of them, and have no plans to make any more. They...

To be sure, I can be a bit hyperbolic at times, but if you look at my advice to the OP in this and other threads, I've told him that what I like probably isn't what he needs, and I advised him in another thread that what he is looking for would probably be best served by something on the lines...

A 212 will not automatically be quieter - it is a matter of the impedance of the cabinet. Depending on the speakers inside, and how its wired, a 212 may actually be the same impedance as a 112, or a 412, or a couple of 412s. And yes, I've seen guys plug a 5 watt amp into a 412. If the...

Whoops - fixed! That's the idea. Nope. Size has nothing to do with the speakers impedance. All you need is to make sure the speaker's impedance is not too low for the amp, which WILL blow an output transformer. Well, or too high, but you have some fudge factor in that direction - you...

1) Yes. In simple terms, less bass. 2) Probably not, but if you put some kind of a gain pedal in front of it (a clean boost, a compressor, a distortion pedal, an overdrive, a fuzzn - any of that stuff) and it will add something to the drive. That amp appears to be pretty similar to the old...

Well.... Certainly, you will never get the kind of complexity and beauty out of a solid state amp. However, cabinet involvement, speaker breakup, and just the motion of the air, are also a big part of the sound, and you will not get those without having a fair bit of volume. But as for...

Very fine guitars indeed. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Just in case someone doesn't get it, Dani and ggunn are JOKING! :D:D:D:D Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

Larivee, yes, the rest, no. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

I can't speak to Muttley, but that is about $1000 too low for a new acoustic out of our shop. I could make you an awfully nice electric for that, though. I have two acoustics that have been hanging on the wall for a while that are still priced as they were when they were built, so you could do...

Yup, though GHS has some white graphite stuff that is actually pretty nice for guys who bend a lot, or do a lot of trem stuff. Myself, I've never found the need, but I slide more than I bend so...I've got customers for whom it is very effective. Light "Cowards can never be moral." M.K. Gandhi

I suppose it comes from being the second guitar player in a band with Robert Fripp, but I've always felt that Adrian Belew never got as much credit as he deserved. On that early eighties Crimson stuff, he's doing most of the same shit as Fripp (or at least, the interlocking part) - WHILE...