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 […]