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Leslie West Mountain of Tone Pickup

When it comes to electric guitars, it’s common knowledge that the single most impactful change you can make is the pickups. There are other changes you can make as well that can change the flavor of your tone, but pickups will produce the most drastic change. This post is focused on humbucker pickups. For years […]

Dean Leslie West Signature Model

Leslie West gained fame the world over during his 30-plus year career as one of the most innovative and influential musicians in the history of rock music. He is most noted for his role as leader of the explosive hard rock trio, Mountain, which was named by VH-1 as one of the Top 100 Hard […]

GAS Gear Acquisition Syndrome

Just When You Think it’s Safe to Go Back In the Guitar Shop. I have it, you have it, and a million other guitar players have it. GAS or “gear acquisition syndrome”. It creeps into your life without warning and sinks its hooks into your flesh and makes you a slave to it. You think […]

Harmony Guitar that Became a Martin

Harmony Guitar That Became A Martin Guest Post by Calvin Jones Originally appeared on the website https://calvinslifesong.com The very first guitar I ever owned was a Harmony Guitar. I was only 6 years old and very small when I received it. The guitar was old and big and made for quite a challenge to play […]

Hamer Studio

Once again I scored on craigslist. I found a Hamer Studio that was so cheap I’m not even going to tell you how much it was except to say I paid more for the new pickups than I did for the guitar. This isn’t a Hamer USA model , it’s Korean made. But the first […]

Les Paul Project Guitar

Over the years I’ve had a few Les Pauls that were fairly heavy (in the 9.5 to 10 lb range) but they never gave me any grief like I hear some dudes talking about. You know, back problems, hip problems etc. from playing a Les Paul. I couldn’t relate because lately I’ve been playing weight […]

Lower String Height on Ovation Celebrity

Yes I know, this series of Ovations doesn’t have a big fan club,. and I get it but I used to have a CC 247 Sunburst that was one of the best acoustics I’ve ever owned. When I found out my daughter was going to learn to play guitar I gave it to her. I […]

Guitar Tone Woods

Guitar tone wood. Now that can spark a debate that can get ugly with a quickness. We have a big ol’ feud going on youtube at the moment with some pretty nasty comments going back and forth. I have my own ideas about the subject. In case you are unfamiliar with the subject let me […]

Dean Soltero

New Axe! Hell Yeah! Dean Soltero! Just like most things worth gettin’ I seem to find them when I’m NOT looking. Case in point: The Dean Soltero. I’ve wanted one forever it seems like but just never found a deal on one. I’ve been watching craigslist for one to pop up for 3 or 4 […]

Rebuilding Epiphone SG Jr

Out of the blue I decided I just had to have a p-90 equipped axe, but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money. So I hit the trail and located a 97′ model Epiphone SG Jr. It was a little rough but it was intact, and the price was right ($85.oo) I bought […]

Guitars

Leslie West Mountain of Tone Pickup

Dean Leslie West Signature Model

GAS Gear Acquisition Syndrome

Harmony Guitar that Became a Martin

Hamer Studio

Les Paul Project Guitar

Lower String Height on Ovation Celebrity

Guitar Tone Woods

Dean Soltero

Rebuilding Epiphone SG Jr

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