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Drilling a Guitar for String-Through Ferrules
I’m currently putting together a DuoSonic from parts and got to the point where I had to drill the holes in the body for the string-through ferrules. I remembered there was some kind of trick to make sure they all lined up nicely. If you just drill straight on through with an 1/8″ drill bit, [...]
Thousands of Guitar Bodies and Necks for Sale …Cheap!
GuitarFetish, popular cut-rate guitar parts purveyor, is having a unique sale right now. Somehow they stumbled into a warehouse in China of abandoned guitar parts. No hardware is left, but there are thousands of necks and bodies in various states of finish and condition. A lot of the parts are in rough condition, but for the price [...]
Tru-Oil as a Guitar Finish
Tru-Oil is the brand name for a wipe on varnish made by Birchwood Casey. Originally developed as a gunstock finish, it’s relative ease of application, decent durability, and grain enhancing properties, have won it a lot of favor among guitar finishers. There also seems to be a lot of confusion about it too. I think [...]
Taylor Guitars – The State of Ebony
Apparently, Taylor guitars now owns 75% of the worlds last legal, commercial supply of ebony. Taylor Guitars co-founder, Bob Taylor, talks about what this means to the guitar industry. I guess it’s good that someone who has a vested interest in seeing this resource become sustainable is in control of it. But it’s a shame [...]
Acoustic Addicts
Here’s one for all the tone nerds. These guys are attempting to show the difference between woods in acoustic guitars. However, each guitar is built so differently, that it’s not a good comparison. Still, if your into the finer points of what makes your guitars sound the way they do, it’s an interesting video. Supposedly [...]