A Grand Day Out

Had a bit of a busy weekend, culminating with a grand day out in Birmingham, at the Guitar Show.  Some fantastic bargains to be had.  I was looking for a small, portable, practice amp.  Something simple with valves!  I’m fed up with overly complicated amps with far too many effects.  What I found isn’t quite that, […]

Texas Custom Telecaster – Setup

What a lovely piece of wood, a really great looking guitar. It’s got a couple of problems, mostly just setup, but the neck isn’t on straight either.  Since the truss-rod adjustment is on the heel of the neck I’ll have to take it off anyway. I don’t need to measure that with a feeler gauge, […]

11 String Tanglewood – Bone Nut

An odd one this, one of the strings wouldn’t stay in it’s slot.  I thought the nut was broken but the slots were at a bit of an angle.  Easy answer, a new bone nut. A nice guitar though. While the strings are off, a good clean. and oil… I don’t have any 12 string […]

Morris 12 String

I’ve never been a huge fan of 12 strings, but perhaps that’s just because I don’t have the playing skills to be able to play them properly?  Anyway all the owner wanted was a bit of a clean-up and service and a little look at the piezoelectric pickup.  When plugged in the volume was fine […]