Polytune for iPhone free!
TC Electronics just announced that the first 25,000 copies of polytune will be free from the app store. I just tried it out and it works beautifully. I think it may beat out the current best iPhone tuner “iStroboSoft”. If you haven’t heard about polytune, this app is based on a real pedal-based tuner with […]
Handmade Metal Pickguards
One thing I have always wondered about guitars is, why are the pickguards plastic? You’ve got all kinds of exotic woods, precision craftsmanship, topped off with a cheap piece of plastic. Not to say they always look bad, just that a lot of times they could look so much better. The Japanese guitars of the […]
Affordable, custom PCB
DorkbotPDX is offering custom PCBs based on your own designs for a very reasonable $5 per square inch for 3 copies of your board. They say that the low price comes from creating large circuit boards with dozens of small boards ganged together. Great idea. The boards are 2-layer, with soldermask and silkscreening on both […]
The Marauder Project: Part 1
The Gibson Marauder was sold from 1975-80. It was the “Norlin era”, considered by many to be a low point in the companies history. About 7,ooo were sold thanks in part, to the low price tag. Designed as an entry level guitar, it had a lot of Fender-type elements such as a bolt on neck […]
Addicted to computers? Obsessed with guitars?
Orange amplifiers may have your perfect piece of gear. Its called the “OPC” and its a PC with a built in amplifier. Still in development for possible release in a few months, the amp-PC sports a 8″ JBL speaker, 1/4 input jack, output jack for external cab hookup and stereo output. It also comes with […]