Recent content by David Collins

Re: Stainless steel picks? Here are stages of wear on an Elixer acoustic G string played with steel picks (finger pics in this case). Shot through a 40x scope. So yeah, they can wear out your strings faster than conventional picks.

Re: Volume and tone control videos Thanks. I built it a few years ago for teaching and demonstration, and to allow for easier experimenting on my own. Here's a glimpse of the inside -

Finally getting around to making some basic guides to choices in guitar electronics arrangements. I filmed a series of six videos, and have the first two up on youtube now. Here's the first, very basic, on differences affected by potentiometer values. http://youtu.be/W8dp9clGe-I And the second...