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We know budgets may be a little tight right now so we made a video with 5 tips to help you get the most tone out of your existing guitar rather than buy a new one!    For the book Courtney mentions - Gerry Haze's "Complete Guide to Wiring" (with a foreword by Dan Erlewine!) click here. To see our full section of FREE wiring diagrams, click here. Browse our website for potentiometers, switches, pickguards, knobs, hardware and more for all your guitar modding needs!   

We get questions pretty frequently on how to wire up a 5-Way Superswitch. While they are slightly complex, you can pretty easily get one wired up to your liking once you understand their fundamental construction. The 5-Way Superswitch provides a ton of different switching possibilities. While a typical 5-way switch has 5 connection lugs, our 5-Way Superswitch has 6 lugs per stage...and there's 4 stages! Broken down further, each of the 4 stages has 5 lugs plus one common (output) lug. Using this, you can split humbuckers into their individual coils (and choose which one you want to use, north or south)....

For the last 6 years or so, I have been something between an amateur and semi-pro gigging guitarist. I played multiple times a week at casinos, private events, bars, festivals, I pretty much did it all. Like so many others, the COVID pandemic put an abrupt stop to that and it's only just now (October 2021) that I'm getting back in the game. I've always played both lead and rhythm guitar, and generally have been the only guitarist in a band. My live rig has always (again in this semi-pro period) consisted of a 50-watt tube combo, and an array of...

To celebrate small business week, we wanted to highlight Studio 13, a personal training business run by our friend Nick Medlock. In this video, Nick goes over some great exercise and pain management tips for musicians and folks who are stuck sitting most of the day. It should be noted that Nick is also an accomplished musician and has worked professionally as a guitar teacher for many years. I've also had the pleasure of playing music with him.  He's the real deal! You can get in touch with Nick via email at studio13phx@gmail, Studio13 LLC for Facebook, and Studio13PHX for Instagram.

We've been running this online business full-time for a couple of years now. At this point, we're well used to our routines, tasks, however the versions of ourselves from just a few years ago would find our current lives fantastic and foreign. The day in the life of our small business is a form-follows function model that adapts and changes as necessary. Here's what it looks like right now. First order of business: get up and take the dogs for a quick walk. We have a puppy named Winfield who has berserk time first thing every morning, so getting him...