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Guitar amplifiers have a hard life, and as anyone who’s run a venue can tell you, they often have significant electrical issues after a life on the road. [Dsagman] had …read more Continue reading Classic Amp Revived With A Pi
After showing off a clever folding system for its Ascender travel guitar at NAMM 2019, Ciari Guitars has returned to the music industry expo with a cheaper model rocking a new look courtesy of luthier legends Grover Jackson and Joe Glaser and a new fol… Continue reading Extraordinary folding guitar gets new look and mechanism redesign
We all want to be guitar heroes, but most of us have to settle for letting a MIDI board play our riffs using a MIDI controller. [Joris] thinks a MIDI …read more Continue reading MIDI Controller Looks Good, Enables Your Air Guitar Habit
Guitars are most typically built out of wood. Whether it’s an acoustic guitar with a big open cavity, or a solid-body electric, there’s generally a whole lot of wood used …read more Continue reading Balloon Guitar Is An Absolute Gas, Helium Or Not
Styled similarly to the older Jazzmaster model, the favored underdog of artists like Kurt Cobain, Tom Verlaine, J Mascis and John Frusciante has now reached its 60th birthday and Fender is celebrating with two new Jaguar guitars.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Fender celebrates offset underdog with 60th Anniversary Jaguar
The Raspberry Pi, although first intended as an inexpensive single-board computer for use in education, is now ubiquitous in electronics communities. Its low price as well as Linux platform and …read more Continue reading Processing Audio With the RP2040
Following in the creative footsteps of the Old Growth Strat, the Front Row Legend Esquire and the 80 Proof Blues Junior, Fender has now used wood reclaimed from a famed Toronto nightclub for a pair of limited edition guitars by Custom Shop Master Build… Continue reading Fender treads the boards for latest Custom Shop reclaimed wood guitars
Hauling heavy gear to entertain passers-by can be a pain for street or subway musicians… literally. The Caseic from Florida’s Zachary DeJarnette could make such things less of a chore, by combining a guitar case with an amplifier and speaker combo.Co… Continue reading Caseic guitar case rocks built-in combo amp for setup and play ease
A lot of first-time guitar builders focus on making the body and skip the neck, which has lots of tricky dimensions to get right to if you want a nicely …read more Continue reading 3D Printing A Guitar Neck
Gibson is delving into its storied past to build a new series of limited-edition guitars called the Archive Collection, and the first model has been crafted from a drawing penned in 1957 by the company’s former president, Theodore “Ted” McCarty.Continu… Continue reading Gibson waits 65 years to turn sketch idea into limited Theodore guitar