DIY Masterpieces: Protocaster Tele
Here’s a great looking Telecaster by Protocaster guitars. A small shop doing relic type guitars. Most people tend to fall on either side of the love-it or hate-it fence when it comes to relics. But the way I see it, there are two different types of relic’ing. One is the guitars that look like they […]
Make Your Own Custom Fretboard Dots
Here’s an interesting technique for punching circles out of flat plastic sheet using a drill press. It’s from luthier Mr. Glyn. Basically he grinds the back end of a drill bit flat, then uses that same drill (the front side) to drill a hole in some steel. You then flip the bit back around without […]
Get Your Guitar Questions Answered
What are the actual notes of each natural harmonic? What do they mean by ‘This amp has alot of headroom’? What do you do when a string breaks or you drop your pick on stage? What did Petrucci mean? Guitarists have a lot of questions. And there’s tons of sites willing to try and […]
Amplitude Custom Shop
IK Multimedia just updated their Amplitude software to version 3.5. Amplitude is computer software that emulates real world amps, effects, speaker cabinets, microphones and some rack effects. It’s very useful for recording your guitar giving you a wide selection of high quality sounding gear that most us couldn’t afford to have all of, or the […]
Technophonic – Aluminum Acoustic Guitar
It’s hard to tell from a youtube video, the finer sonic elements of this guitars sound. But it certainly much better then I thought an aluminum acoustic would sound. They are made by a fellow named Ed Dowling who has an interesting background which he tells you about on his homepage. He’s named them “Technophonic”,and […]