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Well, new to me, anyway -- this is more of a nursing-back-to-health case. A few weeks ago my neighbor gave me an old 12-string that had been sitting in his basement for 20 or so years. Said he had gotten it for his ex-wife many years ago, but her hands were too small to play it, so it never...

It's taken a year + a summer, but my bass project is about done, and I thought you might like to see it. Specs: 40.25" scale. Stew-mac bass tuners. 24" galvanized tub body. Carved SPF top (lowes 2x12), with parallel bracing in lieu of a soundpost. Maple / walnut neck and endpin. Bloodwood...

I got a gift cert to guitarfetish over the holidays, so I finally broke down and replaced the old foambuckers in my cheapo SG copy. I put a Mean 90 in the bridge and a Dream 90 in the neck, and I went ahead and replaced all the pots and lined the cavities with copper foil. I've been wanting...

Hi folks, I just bought a used Snarling Dogs bass wah, which turned out to be broken when I got it home. I don't know what else is wrong with it, but it almost certainly has a bad switch, since the effect doesn't seem to turn off. It's a 6-pin switch. Is there any reason to suspect it's...

This may or may not be the same problem that a guy had on this forum a week or so ago, but I checked that thread and didn't see where he resolved it. I have my guitar wired for independent volume controls, that is, on each volume pot, the jack is wired to the leftmost lug and the pickup is...

Just wired up my frankenstein homemade guitar this afternoon. I basically wanted to see if I could make a functional instrument, and I've been happily surprised with the result. It's far from perfect, and many, many mistakes were made, but the next one will be better for it. This thing has...

I had heard reports online of people finding fake humbuckers in guitars of the same brand as my 15-dollar SG copy, so I decided to check mine out. Here they are, single-coils in humbucker cases, smashed in with yellow foam. What I'm curious about, though, is that it looks like there are two...

Hello all, My project guitar's not quite ready to wire up yet, but I figure it's time to think about how it's going to be done. It will have two humbuckers. Here's what I want: - No selector switch; both pickups on at all times - Independent Volume control and tone controls for each pickup...

Anybody ever used these? http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Hardware,_parts/Electric_guitar:_Covers_plates/Neck_Mounting_Ferrules.html As an alternative to a neck plate. I'm just wondering if it would work as well, since there wouldn't be the stabilizing force behind the bolts.

Just a curiosity on my part, as to the nature of the pedals on a pedal steel. I get that the pedals change the tension on some of the strings. Do these pedals have stops, that is, are they calibrated things that bend a note up by a specific amount, or do you have to judge how far to bend with...

The weakest part of my recording setup has always been drums, the main issue being that I don't actually own a set of drums. The drum program I currently use basically just creates drum tracks as .wav files by cut-pasting a bunch of wave samples together in a pattern I specify. Maybe other...

Hello, I've been working on a frankenstein-type project guitar for awhile now, and it's about time to get some pickups for it. I have a few questions: 1) I've heard good things about GFS pickups in general on this board. Can anybody vouch specifically for the Dream 180s? Man, they're...