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Posts from April 2014



Flame top guitars are overrated
2014 Apr 1

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.

Are offset guitars nothing but hipster junk?
2014 Apr 2

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 […]

2-pickup vs. 3-pickup guitars
2014 Apr 4

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.

Where do you get white Fender "Witch Hat" control knobs?
2014 Apr 6

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 […]

No, you do not have to tune flat to keep a guitar in tune
2014 Apr 7

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?

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