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The Milwaukee Servoelectric Guitar Project
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The Marauder Project: Part 5 – Water Based Finish
Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 So I decided to try out a water-based finish on the Marauder. I know a lot of the purists out there see putting anything other then nitrocellulose lacquer on a guitar as akin to throwing a blanket on it tone-wise, but personally I don’t buy it. Most production guitars today are [...]
How to Remove and Install Humbucker Covers
Guitar pickups are pretty simple things – magnets, wires, wax, some metal bits and a bobbin to hang it all on. But with all the jargon and mojo surrounding them, it’s intimidating for many guitarists to even consider they could repair or mod one. Covered humbuckers are especially mysterious with everything all locked up in [...]
Seymour Duncan Introduces the Liberator™ Solderless Pickup Change System
What better story to follow my “How To Solder” article, then an announcement from Seymour Duncan for a new system that allows you to swap pickups in your guitar without needing to do any soldering. Dubbed the Liberator™, it’s essentially a volume potentiometer with a clamping system to attach the pickup wires to. Initially there will [...]