Category: Guitar

I built a guitar

My new partscaster

I built a guitar, and I'm thrilled about it. I'm not ready to call myself a luthier yet, for I didn't build this from scratch. I bought a bunch of parts then, drilled, painted and soldered everything together. People call these 'partscasters', which

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Gibson Mod Shop Explorer

rainbow Green Gibson Explorer

I love guitars. I'm constantly looking online just to see what's available on the used market. I'm not always in a buying mood, but I do like to window shop! Even more so over the last few months when I discovered the Continue reading

My Trip to Kiesel Guitars

Kiesel Guitars is a 71 year old custom guitar shop out of Escondido, California that used to be known as Carvin Guitars. About 2 years ago they changed their name back to the original family name after splitting the Carvin Corporation into 2 differen

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My New Kiesel Vader

At the end of March Kiesel Guitars announced they would start producing multi-scale versions of their popular headless Vader guitars. I immediately had the 'I need that' feeling and started using their online guitar builder to select the options I wa

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Free Guitar Tablature Paper

I need guitar tablature paper from time to time for showing people guitar music related things or I may need to notate something myself. It's handy to have around. Try finding good quality online and it's tricky. It's either watermarked, has someone'

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