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I've had this rattling around in my head for a while, but it took me a good bit to get all the parts together. Kind of like that old Johnny Cash song, where he pulls pieces off the assembly line to make his car. Anyhoos, here's a kisekae mockup of what I have in mind, with some awkward graphics...

After a godawful long time (try nineteen-eighty-something!), I'm building a new ax. I found a guy to rout a poplar body blank for me, and I ordered a GuitarFetish neck. I'm gathering parts from various sources. My idea's coming to fruition, but I need to learn more about poly finishes and...

I'm back in the 5-string game, after having to part with a custom fretless '74 Precision a few years ago. Meet Gio, an Ibanez GSR 205SM. (screen grab; my phone's jpeg file was too big) This guy punches way above his weight class, especially considering the price. On the Sweetwater website...

My rusty, trusty 1999 Fender Princeton 65 (the solid state PR-410 model) finally went the way of all things back a few months ago, pre-COVID. It sounded "Fender-y" enough -- clean as soap, good overdrive, good with pedals -- but it was all surface-mount pots, with plastic quarter-inch jacks...

Dah-dah-dum, dum, dum, she finally bit the dust... (screen grab; Audiofanzine) The pots got banged around; I was in the middle of the last set of my last live gig (January, dagnabbit). I bought this brand new in 1999, and I recorded, gigged and practiced with it every year from that point...

I bought a 1999 Fender Princeton 65, back in 1999. This is the production model number PR 403. (net grab; equipboard [dot] com) It's a solid state amp, but for $300 it's been a solid investment. I swapped the factory 12" for an OEM Celestion. That made an amp with good cleans into a Dr...

After you've been in the game as long as I have (I started taking lessons at age 9, in 1970), things start getting a bit rusty. I was at a recording session for my band yesterday, and while I was in the middle of a solo, my fretting (left) hand started cramping. I had taken a few takes of this...

Yes, I could get a swimming pool routed Strat, and save a lot of heartache. And yes, it's probably been discussed here before (I haven't done a search, but that's a safe bet). I've got a set of SD Stack P90s looking for a good home. One volume, one tone, 5-way switch, hardtail bridge, easy...

I've taken a look at the usual suspects (USACG, Warmoth, Allparts), but it seems this is a custom item. Are there any bolt-on body suppliers that have this config, or even a swimming pool rout where I can source a custom pickguard? As usual, I'm broke as a joke, so trying to get the right...

A local public broadcasting station in Louisville has a show on Friday nights... the host played a song I had on my Soundcloud account, in support of a show I'm playing the end of this month. https://soundcloud.com/reggie-may/gimme-your-money-hand-it-over-gary-sampson-world-premiere

StewMac has teamed up with JHS to bring back some of their well-known and discontinued pedals in kit form. The All-American, the 808, Old School Fuzz, Low Drive and Bomb Boost are all available for around $100 US. web link

Who among you is doing this actively? I need some different musicians to get the sounds I'm looking for (live drums, horns and keys, mostly for R&B/soul). Nobody in this town is down with anything close to what I'm into, and as a result, the closest they get is a weak sauce cover of "In The...

I've got a gig tom'w, and I'm in need of mp3 backing tracks without guitar or lead vocal. Can anyone point me to some homemade or freebies? Some rock dad stuff, blues, jazz standards, classic R&B.

Meet John Crawford. He's the inventor of Jack, a wi-fi transmission system with lower latency than Bluetooth, and better fidelity than radio frequency. His Kickstarter campaign got his company off the ground, and tracking the progress will be very interesting...

Earlier this year, I had to sell my long-time number 1, a '77 LP Triumph. Man, I loved that bass. The local shop owner I went to knew he had me over a barrel, and he didn't even buy me dinner. That's not all. I had a '74 Precision that I modded into a 5-string fretless. If I played the right...