Yeah, armchair pundit time again. You might have read, a few days ago, Gibson’s CEO Henry Juszkiewicz gave his opinion on the public’s perception of quality control at his organisation.
Now get mine…
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It’s occurred to me that a lot of a guitar repairer’s time is spent removing things from guitars. Sometimes that just involves unscrewing some screws but, other times (often?), some additional effort and knowledge is required to safely remove something.
Like various ‘bushings’. Read on…
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Up until a little while ago, the term ‘witness points’ was not one I knew. Turns out, though, it’s a very useful concept to understand — especially if you’re having problems getting a string intonated before running out of saddle travel.
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The first in an occasional episode of deep, deep Haze history. Man, I miss the ‘60s.
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More ranting. Now it’s staggered height tuners that feel my wrath. Well, not wrath exactly but I do have a bit of a problem with them.
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Rant time. Again. You’d think I enjoyed ranting.
Let me state this clearly: Truss rods are NOT for adjusting action. Let no one tell you otherwise.
Read on…
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When it comes to compensation and intonation the change from a wound G string to a plain one caused a lot of hassle in sections of the guitar community. Get the skinny on G-strings…
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Your ball ends need firm contact for the best results.
For some good guitar advice (and just a little more innuendo), read on…
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Fender-style truss rods that adjust at the body-end of the neck can be a bit of a pain. Sometimes (not often enough), manufacturers build in some concessions to those setting up instruments but even some of these can bring their own challenges.
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A reader request, this one. Floyd Rose trems are less than straightforward in many areas and setting height and radius on the saddles is definitely one of those.
Get the info on how to change Floyd saddle height…
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So, you might have heard along the way that the tremolo bridge should really be called a vibrato bridge. And you might have heard that it's Leo Fender's fault that we have to live with this heinous misnomer. Oh, the pedantic angst of it all!
Well, I wanted to confirm this and found some interesting stuff…
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For the best playability, it's important that your string heights match the radius of the fingerboard. But what happens when you can't actually adjust each saddle height?
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