Sliders T-Style pickup review

Hi. My name is Alex. I'm a YouTube addict. YouTube is a favourite hangout of mine on the web. There is a wealth of knowledge on there, and also a lot of misinformation. Anyway, here are just a handful of my favourite channels: Music Theory and Guitar Technique Fretjam : Awesome theory, lots of stuff on modes and even some stuff on guitar techniques. Also check out fretjam.com Rick Beato : Shares his wealth of knowledge with frequent videos. To be honest some of the stuff h

This will be the final post on the DIY pedalboard. There are only a few tasks left to do before you can start the nightmare of arranging...

The last blog post left off with the pieces of the frame all dovetailed and dry fitted together. Now it's time to disassemble and rout...

Once the size and design were settled on, it's time to start building. As mentioned in the previous post, I had plenty of help from the...

I'd like to share a brain dump for another one of my projects in my time off from this site. I had wanted a custom pedalboard for a whil

So...at this stage you should be able to install the speaker onto the baffle. This is a relatively easy process, assuming that the hole...

Last week we spoke about construction of the pine boxed frame. This post continues on that, exploring the next steps which are: rounding...

In my time away from this site, one of my projects was to build a custom speaker cabinet to house an Eminence Private Jack that I own. I...

So the story for this particular tone chase starts with John Mayer. Yes, I'm slightly ashamed to admit that I listen to JM. After all, he...

Took a long layoff from this site - let's just say a lot of life things happened. But now I'm back - and I can see where I left off, I...

So how do you improve on this guitar? Well, besides getting rid of the rotary switch and installing a push/push pot system for coil taps, there's not much I would do. The guitar itself plays great and feels great. So I decided to change out some of the parts to see if I could get it to look even better than it already does. I identified 3 things I would like to change out: Pickup rings: I actually love the way PRS does faux body binding (although I'm not sure that's what t

The assembly of this strat has been documented over 4 blog posts. This blog post is to show the final product and go through some...

Continued from Sonic Blue '62 Part 2. Same caveats as before...this is simply how I put my strats together. I may be doing things wrong,...

Continued from Sonic Blue '62 Part 1. Same caveats as before...this is simply how I put my strats together. I may be doing things wrong,...

This and upcoming blog posts document the work done to assemble my '62 inspired Sonic Blue Strat. This is simply the procedure that I use...

So how do you improve on this guitar? Well, besides getting rid of the rotary switch and installing a push/push pot system for coil taps, there's not much I would do. The guitar itself plays great and feels great. So I decided to change out some of the parts to see if I could get it to look even better than it already does. I identified 3 things I would like to change out: Pickup rings: I actually love the way PRS does faux body binding (although I'm not sure that's wha

Let me start by digressing: I don't know about you, but I love the look of old pickguards. There's just something about those really old style plastics, be it bakelite or cellulose nitrate, that is very appealing to me. I think it may be a sense of nostalgia...depending on how old you are and from which part of the world you come from, you may remember the old bakelite light switches and celluloid combs etc that you just don't see around much anymore. These old plastics age g

I recently got some relic'ing done for a few Strat rosewood necks that I needed for some projects. By way of coincidence I ended up going...

In my final post on this matter I discuss the final 2 possibilities from my list: were these guitars an unauthorised copy from Matsumoku...