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You know that feeling when your previously niche hobby goes mainstream, and suddenly you’re not interested in it anymore because it was once quirky and weird but now it’s trendy and all the newcomers are going to come in and ruin it? That just happened to retrocomputing. The article is …read more
For something that’s basically a coil of wire around some magnetic pole pieces, an electric guitar pickup is a complicated bit of tech. So much about the tone of the instrument is dictated by how the pickup is wound that controlling the winding process is something best accomplished with a …read more
Continue reading A Pair of Steppers are Put to Work in This Automatic Instrument Pickup Winder
UK guitar amp maker Blackstar has introduced its first guitar in collaboration with Gordon Smith Guitars. The Carry-On Guitar is aimed at wanderlust musicians who want the feel and tone of a full-size instrument in a compact package.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Blackstar promises full-size feel from Carry-On travel guitar
When questing to find the perfect guitar to suit your style and playing, you may find yourself wishing that aspects of different models could be merged into one perfect instrument. Mashups are not uncommon, but can be the domain of luthiers and custom … Continue reading Fender unleashes limited-edition street-brawling Telecaster beauty
Music gear icon Gibson has teamed up with online instrument marketplace titan Reverb to sell one-of-a-kind prototypes, demo models, pre-played artist signatures and Gibson mods. The Gibson Demo Shop is live now and has kicked off with 40 exclusive guit… Continue reading Gibson sets up shop on Reverb to sell prototype and demo guitars
Eric Clapton often auctions off his music gear to help fund the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, and it’s from the first in mid-1999 that Lot 103 was sold. That 1954 Fender Stratocaster dubbed Slowhand is now available again, with bidding kicking off at a… Continue reading Bidding starts at $1 million for Eric Clapton’s 1954 Slowhand Strat
Back in 2016, electrical engineer Chris Prendergast launched a Kickstarter project for the JamStack portable guitar amplifier that snapped onto a strap peg and blasted out tones generated by a smartphone. Now the bigger and better second generation has… Continue reading Snap-on guitar amp gets bigger, more featured and more powerful
Every so often we stumble across something truly awesome on platforms like Spotify, Bandcamp and YouTube. In this case it was a beautiful rendition of one of my favorite George Harrison compositions, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, on a custom acoustic w… Continue reading Clever attachment makes for melody, slide, bass and beats on one guitar
Just when we thought there was nothing left to make into an infinity mirror, [Burls Art] goes and builds something that seems obvious now that it exists — an infinity mirror guitar. Check out the build video after the break, where [Burls Art] gets right to it without wasting any …read more
Yamaha mixed up the guitar amplifier space in 2013 when it released three portable modeling amps to the US market, which sat somewhere between performance and practice models. These desktop amps went wireless last year thanks to a built-in Line 6 recei… Continue reading Yamaha makes a desktop amp specifically for acoustic pickers