Basic Humbucker pick up system11.19.07

Basically making a Humbucker pick up(p/u) is when you place a single coil beside another one.

Visually you will notice that some Humbucker p/u’s may have a cover on them, thus you will not see the two coils side by side. I will try to explain that one in another post.
Both coils generate a [...]



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My Fender Lead II11.10.07

I have been using my Fender Lead II as of late. I only have one guitar stand and I rotate the guitars that I put in it many times throughout the year.

I got this guitar off a exchange student from Japan around 1984-85. Oddly enough, this is a Student Guitar, meaning the body is smaller [...]



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Guitar side ports09.28.07

The one thing that I see in the evolution of the acoustic guitar today is its link with the past from Canada’s own, Glenn Gould. He used a unique approach while playing in his later years, around 1983, when he took away part of the piano body to let the sound come out of [...]



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