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Squier Jazzmaster gets upgrades with both new and 21-year-old parts

Wed 2014 May 7

My Squier Jazzmaster developed an electronics problem. The volume pot developed a nasty dead spot around a 3/4 turn, and the tone pot was getting a bit scratchy.

I'm not a guy who knows how to work on electronics when it comes to guitars. Or to be more accurate, I can work on them, but for anything outside of a normal setup or a simple soldering job, I'm not that good at it.

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No love for the Fender Mustang

Thu 2014 May 1

I do champion Fender design, but I don't like all their guitars. One guitar I simply can't stand is the Mustang.

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The easy way to cut a Florida electric bill for cooling by more than half

Sat 2014 Apr 26

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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No more Ovation guitars from Connecticut

Wed 2014 Apr 23

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

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The under-$150 Fender guitar

Mon 2014 Apr 21

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

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