posts from april 2014

Some guitars take the flame top too far to the point they start looking not-so good, and the Fender Select Stratocaster in Dark Cherry Burst is one of them. Both the body and neck are flamed on it. Flame, flame, flame and more flame. Oh, there's more.

To those not in the know, offset guitar indicates the guitar body is constructed using an offset-waist position; that means the neck sticks out away from the player slightly more compared to a center-waist construction. On most offset guitars, you can see the "lean" in the body where the top is positioned more forward than […]

Have you seen the in Shoreline Gold and the in Orange Burst? Ordinarily, when people think of 2-pickup vs. 3-pickup, vs. comes to mind. I decided to change that to show that you can have it the other way around where the Gibson is the 3-pickup and the Fender a 2-pickup.

On the , the control knobs are the "witch hat" white style (or close-to-white as they may be parchment colored). The does not come with these. Instead, you get regular "skirted" knobs as seen on Stratocasters. I've been wanting the witch hat knobs ever since I bought my Jazzmaster. I looked on the Fender Store […]

I've seen a many opinions floating around on how to tune an electric guitar. Some say tuning to exactly what a chromatic tuner states is the right way, while others say it's totally wrong and you should tune certain strings flat. Which is correct?

Concerning my , the new Gibson knobs arrived. While they were tight when installing them, they did fit correctly on the split-shaft potentiometer posts.

Long time followers of mine know a guitar of mine I call Banana, the 2010 in Arctic White. Why is she called Banana? Because the Arctic White that Squier puts on that particular guitar is nowhere near white. It's decidedly more yellow, as in banana-colored, hence why the guitar is called Banana.

Just for fun, I wanted to find out what the absolute lowest-priced Fender branded guitar was. It's a ukulele. Specifically, the . It's well under the $150 price point and anyone can afford it.

Fender owns the Ovation guitar brand, originally brought into being by Charles Kaman, hence Kaman corporation (sold to Fender in 2007).

For a good chunk of my New England life, I lived with no A/C whatsoever because it simply wasn't required. Only for maybe 1 to 2 weeks out of the year did you really feel the heat and cranked up A/C if you had it.

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