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I'm constantly changing out wiring schemes and pickups. For the most part, it's strictly for functional reasons. I have a 1995 Gibson Les Paul Standard that in my pre-covid life was being used in a cover band. We played dance hits and 80's stuff so a typical LP setup wasn't going to work well if I wanted to use it in my guitar rotation, so I set it up with push-pulls and coil split humbuckers. Due to Covid-19 I haven't been playing out, so I wanted to return this guitar back to a vintage PAF style. One thing, though. I...

2020 has been a hard year for all of us but for small business owners especially, it has been extra stressful while also full of opportunities.  This holiday season we thought we'd put together a gift guide for all those small business owners making it work every day.  As guitar builders, repairers and sellers, there's a lot on your plate!  So, here's some gift ideas just for you.   1.  A cool holder/stand for your phone - the reality is that as a small business owner, you're pretty well tethered to your technology.  Texts, DMs, comments and questions are flying in...

I grew up in the 1980s, and was obsessed with the guitar, and playing guitar, as a little kid. Van Halen wasn't my favorite band, but I had a couple of their records, listened to them a ton and was as blown away as everyone else by Eddie's playing. As of the time I'm writing this, it's been two weeks since he died, and I've been thinking a lot about a lesson he indirectly taught me, about modding guitars. I remember, way back then, seeing an article in one of the guitar magazines about the Frankenstein guitar, how it was...

I've mentioned before that a huge part of my life, pre-covid era, was my "part-time job" as a musician. It was awesome. Being able to sing, play lead guitar and work as a solo act meant that I could run the gamut of gigs. I've been in a great party band, a duo that was successful, and got plenty of solo gigs. I've never thought of my playing and singing as exceptional...you're probably not gonna write home to ma and pa after you see me...but I was always "good" and put the effort into getting gigs. I had a casino...

Something you may not know about JT and I is that we both took a course in grant writing for non-profits from ASU (have the certificate to prove it!) and were in the process of starting up a grant writing business when the guitar parts company opportunity rolled our way.  However we never left our non-profit loving roots behind, we just weren’t sure how to make it compatible with our new venture.   Now, as we witness all the turmoil in the world, we know we want to really DO something, to participate in allyship and let ACTIONS speak for us...