Posts from April 2014
Cut cooling costs by knowing the difference between air cooling and air conditioning.
Fender owns the Ovation guitar brand, originally brought into being by Charles Kaman, hence Kaman corporation (sold to Fender in 2007).
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.
Above is a guitar that long time followers of mine know as 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.
Above is my with the new Gibson knobs on it. While they were a tight fit, they did fit correctly on the split-shaft potentiometer posts.
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?
On the , the control knobs are the "witch hat" white style (or close-to-white as they may be parchment colored), and look like this:
An answer to the question of whether Fender offset guitars are truly junk or not
Some guitars have so much flame on them that they're just ugly.
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