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New counter weight
A while ago I added about 1 ounce of BB’s to the output jack of the telecaster to help offset the neck dive. I just upgraded to a 2.25 ounce weight by using washers! They are steel washers, 5/32″ ID, … Continue reading
Passive headphone level mixer
My old guitar amp doesn’t have a line in jack to allow me to mix my guitar signal with an audio source as a backing track. To remedy this, I created my own mixer. More details here: http://www.ssguitar.com/index.php?topic=4028 The short … Continue reading
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Raspberry Pi – 2 & 3, First and Second
Over the last few months I’ve set up and installed two Raspberry Pi’s. The first install was at work where the school wanted to have “digital signage.” I used a Raspberry Pi 2 running Raspbian and using the PiPresents application … Continue reading
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Quadra 650 – “Quad Serve”
Stock Now (2004) Processor 68040 @ 33 Mhz Overclocked 68040 @ 42 Mhz Hard Drive 250 mb 2.1 gb RAM 12 mb RAM 104 mb RAM CD-Rom 2x CD 4x CD Operation System Mac OS 7.6.1 Mac OS 8.1 The … Continue reading
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My acoustic guitars
I now have two acoustic guitars, a mid 1970’s Toyota and an early 1970’s Harmony Stella. They are both inexpensively made guitars and both were given to me. The Toyota while in high school and just recently, the Harmony. They … Continue reading
String tension
I’ve been thinking about how much I miss playing a short scale guitar. The Harmony Bobkat I had back in the day was a 24″ scale and due to this, the strings were very “slinky” and easy to depress. This … Continue reading
New Made in USA vs Used
I’ve been thinking a lot about this subject in regard to guitars. Does it make sense to purchase a brand new Made in USA guitar, thus supporting US manufacturing, or a used guitar. There are benefits to both. Let me … Continue reading
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More tele upgrades
I’ve gotten a few more things done to the telecaster. First, chrome knobs. I never did care for the black ones that had been on it. These ones came from a Squire P-Bass my brother picked up for a project, … Continue reading
Rock ‘n Roll
Vaughn and I have a standing father/son time every weekend in the morning playing guitar. Recently he has started to play with me, clicking the button on an old stomp box I made back in college. This morning I decided … Continue reading
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Fralin Tele Splits
Someday I’m going to upgrade my tele, and when I do, it will have these cool Fralin’s on it:
