Deciphering Telecaster Saddles
Although I love the new Squire Classic Vibe 60s Telecaster Thinline guitar I recently purchased, it’s my first Telecaster. Owning it has introduced me to… Read More »Deciphering Telecaster Saddles
Although I love the new Squire Classic Vibe 60s Telecaster Thinline guitar I recently purchased, it’s my first Telecaster. Owning it has introduced me to… Read More »Deciphering Telecaster Saddles
So far I’ve discussed improving the tone from a guitar cabinet and swapping a pickup in my arch top from Eastman Guitars. The third tonal… Read More »Improving my guitar’s tone. Part 3: Different strings?
A general rule for guitarists who want to change from standard to an opening tuning is to tune down for acoustic guitar and up for… Read More »Are my strings too tight?
I’ve decided to keep the Breedlove 12 String Guitar I ordered. Now I’ve got to share all the random things suggested by owning a 12-string… Read More »12 String Guitars, Tunings and Tension
Broken strings are a nuisance that most players of stringed instruments have faced. After the fact, you often want to determine why the string broke.… Read More »Broken: Aquila Red Banjo String
… whether the strings needed changing or not! What? How is that possible? Am I crazy? Seriously, I just changed the strings on 3 of my guitars.… Read More »After 9 years I changed the strings on my guitars
I love flatwound strings on electric guitars, particularly hollow body jazz guitars. I’ve currently got flat wound strings on three of my guitars, one of… Read More »Flat Wound Guitar Strings
So many string choices for your electric guitar. As for acoustic guitars, there are differences based on composition, wrap style and treatments. But many of… Read More »Electric Guitar Strings
When I was a kid my local music store stocked one brand of guitar string, Black Diamond. I had two choices for string gauge. Although… Read More »Acoustic Guitar Strings
I was fascinated to discover ukulele strings composed of two stainless steel flatwound strings for the 4th and 3rd strings. These were combined with two… Read More »Baritone Ukulele Strings with Mixture of Stainless Flatwound and Plain Nylon