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Can you put velcro on an amp without permanently staining or damaging the Tolex? Is there any product out there to aid in removing the residue afterwards?

​ They did. Here's mine, recently brought back from the dead. Got it brand new back in 2001. It was between this and a used 1995 Classic. In hindsight, I probably made a bad choice. But then again, now that I'm older I very much appreciate how much lighter it is. The finish on these was never...

This is what I'm currently putting together. Used to be a 100w head and a sizable pedal board, but I got sick and tired of hauling heavy gear to places with no parking close to the venue. It hasn't been field tested yet, so to speak, just got the amp and MultiFX a few weeks ago. And the cabs...

I want to rewire one of my axes. Currently it has a bog standard "H-H/Vol/Tone" setup, Jazz in the neck and JB in the bridge. The plan is to replace the tone pot (it's always maxed out anyway) with a two-way on-on DPDT toggle switch and connect the neck 'bucker to it so I can go between series...

Is it possible to wire a guitar with 2 hum / 1 vol / 1 tone / 3-way blade switch so just one pup toggles between either full/split or series/parallel? Or would I have to install either an additional volume pot, toggle switch or 5-way blade switch?

I saw online that you can control the channel switching of the 50W 5153 by looking it up to a midi controller or a multiFX unit and mapping each channel to separate foot switches. Does anyone know if it is possible to set it up so it incorporated the channels into presets? IE, press switch 1...

A friend lent me a pair of W Boggs Firewater pups to use for a Les Paul currently without pups in it. I've never heard of the brand, a quick googling just gives me some 20-ish year old goss about how the guy who owned the company was a good-for-nothing who absconded with someone's guitar and a...

I have an Engl Ironball with EL-84s in the power section. I also have a leftover set of spare power tubes, and I'm curious as to if they would change the amp tone. I don't have the experience nor the tools to adjust the bias, but would it be safe to swap the tubes, fire it up to check quickly...

Is it safe to attempt to bend this back or not? Previous owner (actually factory worker, I suspect) tried to drill this in, messed up, tried to drill a new hole and then attached the pickup at an angle. I've already filled out the drill holes (see toothpicks), and I don't want to have to drill...

Sold out everywhere I look. And no longer on the SD home page. Has it already been discontinued?

I was just eyeing the Charvel DK24 FR and the LTD H1001 FR. The latter seem to warrant a higher price than the former, as it comes with proper neck-through and a carved top, while the former comes with a slab body and a bolt on neck. But they're actually priced justa bout the same. Has anyone...

https://youtu.be/hMacXBVTF3o Looks like they're giving guitar synths another shot. Guess they sound better that those awful Roland Midi guitars from the 80s.

Seems we're going through a golden age as far as effects go. Every year more and more cool stuff comes out, and thanks to the Internet and social media more obscure and small-scale builds are now more accessible than ever before. Now I got into the pedal game quite late (roughly 2016 and...

Basically what the title says. A drummer friend of mine needs a cheap amp for some studio hijinks, but the tube or hybrid lunchboxes in his price range don't offer any line out. So is it possible to use the FX loop send as a line out and then run cab sims in his DAW? And of course speaker would...

This popped up in my inbox. Considering how dreadfully reactive and conservative most of us guitarists tend to be, I'm guessing purists will turn up the noses at this. I think it's pretty cool though, esp the option of tweaking filters for each string separately...