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...hese, but they are a treat to look at. Notice the slanted front pickup and matching diagonally ending fretboard. ...
...uras Mahogany Fingerboard: Rosewood Bridge: TonePros Aluminum Wrap-Around Scale Length: 25 1/2" Fret Dimensions: Hamer Wide Oval: .100" x .050" Neck Shape / Thickness '56 V Shape, 1.680" at ...
...a good guitar and stick with it, but small changes can create a unique sound.Putting a sustainer on the fretless for a continued vibration, slightly like the Eastern stringed instruments. I feel ...
Does anyone here play a guitar with no fret markers. Was it hard to get use to? Would it be to difficult for an intermediate level player to play on? I am looking at a guitar I really like, but it doe
New Fender Custom Tele. Rosewood Neck, Jumbo Frets D'Addario Strings - 9s In the last week I have broken 2 high E strings right about the 7th fret. When the string breaks it looks bent along the s
...good. The pickup is a POS but ok. I think it could actually be usable for a beginner if the end of the frets weren't so sharp. As you slide your hand along the neck they catch your fingers. I'm no l...
...me types of rhythm things. A tad overdriven, it has a nice jazzy sound to it. Notes in the 9th to tenth fret range sound especially sweet to me. (It's a 2004 American Deluxe with the SCN pups.) I also...
..., and complement its virtues/vices, it weighs 10 lb., has a sustain plate, through-body neck, and ebony fretboard. The choice is simply overwhelming (aren't we lucky?). I like the Bustbuckers Pro but ...
...iano they were throwing out and put them on this guitar. And the finish is actually shoe polish and the frets are 16 penny nails and the tuners are thread spools and the bridge is a cows rib and the p...
...n optimum distance to set these pick-ups? The Fender site says to set them as close as you like without fret buzz...
I have an early '80s Kramer Vanguard series V, it has a maple neck & fretboard, diMarzio DoubleWhammy bridge pickup, killer crunch throughout, but the stock FloydRose is just about junk, all rusted, d
...string goes out of SOUND when bending it, and the floyd liftage (if the problem is rattling against the frets) didn't help it, and other strings sound ok. Is there a way to fix that? Thanks again...
...ed a dozen times before, but I have to assure myself on this. When I measure the concave around the 8th fret by fretting the 1st and last fret I get about .019'. Neck is 7.25' radius. Fender suggests ...
...with a SD Jazz, neck and a SD SH-4 for bridge position. But I also like the ease of access to the higer frets that I can get with a Strato. Now I'm considering getting myself a Gibson LP and I took a ...
...s in the correct order!! that is, how do you identify the root of the scale? I simply started at D (5th fret 5th string) so currently have the scale written out from D. Any theory buffs out there? ...
... on her now, just replaced the 9's that were on it, but that B-string is very 'weak and tinny' sounding fretted all down the neck and also when struck open, and there is no fret buzz anywhere. The nut...
... to DR Pure Blues BUT the 1st 2nd 3rd string are Plain Steel then I'm in the same boat when it comes to fret wear since it's these strings that are wearing my frets and not E A D 4th 5th 6th. OR are...
My friend, Chris, wants to install frets back on his defretted Gibson Ripper bass. I think he is being a cheapskate by not wanting to fork over $250 to have a professional do it. Has anyone here fre
...m and search for Alhaj you can hear sound clips. Alhaj plays an 'oud' - link of like a lute having no frets....
...little thick). Whan playing in let's say the key of G-Major wouls I play the blues scale on the third fret as I would the G-Major pentatonic or would I play at the 12th fret/Nut as I would for the E...
Quick question This is my first string replacement. The fretboard is oily, and i am I dont want to feck anything up Its a washburn x20 (old model) Thanks
...ot the flying V but the other strat looking guitar with the 4 tuners on one side and 2 on the other, 24 frets. The name on the head stock is too...
...ired, 25-yr old Japanese Ibanez bass with natural finish, 1-piece maple neck has a fair amount of wear. Fretboard has roughly a third of the laquer finish worn off and all along the underneath edge of...
I've set the intonation on my new neck and the guitar is in tune except for the B and high E strings on frets 1-5. The nut seems a little high. Would this be the problem? Also, I'm getting a buzz at t
... adjusted the bridge so the strings are as long as possible, but the pitch of a note played at the 12th fret is still sharp vs. a perfect octave above the open string. Admittedly, I'm just learning ho...
I've set the intonation on my new neck and the guitar is in tune except for the B and high E strings on frets 1-5. The nut seems a little high. Would this be the problem? Also, I'm getting a buzz at t
...t the 'tremsetter' type thingy does work, at least as set-up, so a bent G string note doesn't flatten a fretted E string note, and you can also dive bomb with it (and up-bend), although it might be a ...
...id Joe Ely. Fancy bass playing will generally ruin a good song - Jack Bruce maiming 'White Room' (the fretless is _not_ a rock instrument). And the Stanley Clarke thing was totally self-indulgent, i...
...h constant static pops when the strings are touched, it has a misaligned Badass II bridge, it has sharp fret ends and it arrived in a cardboard box rather than the tweed case that it's supposed to arr...
...y...BUT with added bits!. The Basic guitar is a bolt on neck guitar, the neck appears to have had the frets dressed, and the body is HEAVY! The nice bit is that someone has fitted a pair of Gibson...
...estion, but here goes.... I am practising Pentatonic Scales, and wonder do most people use 1 finger per fret, or just use the ir first 3 fingers. I find I can play most of them using only my first 3 f...
A book on guitar maintenance, I keep having problems like fret buzz, so I need to adjust the truss rod, but how do I do that? basic wiring inside the guitar etc.. I keep taking my guitar to the repair
...some photos of power chord postions shown with unused fingers curled under the neck, completely off the fretboard! I know many folks curl the odd finger off the fretboard now and then in the process o...
Hi all Just wondering if anyone can tell me the pros and cons of various fretboard radii? Just wondering, as the guitars I play most have a 13.5 inch radius. Looking at Fenders, the new USA standard
...nd I want to make sure I've got the two pickups right in the sweetspots. So, it's a 25&1/2' scale, 22 fret neck. I've got two humbucker pickups to install. Firstly, the neck pickup: I thought that...
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