Recent content by Joseph Palmer

I have a 1963 Strat, which came to me in 78, in pieces, completely stripped of paint except for the date code on the neck. It appears to have been originally some variety of blue from the factory, followed by spray-can brown. It's now natural because I used spray can Deft to seal it back in 78...

Not sure where I first came across "The Little Sister" but it looks and sounds pretty sweet. Looks like less than 30 have been completed to date. Obligatory overly-arty website http://www.bngguitars.com/ Loads more on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bngguitars No, I'm not connected in any...

Here's a question for any of the pickup winders here: What's your favorite set up for listening to the tone of your pickups? What kind of amps, how big is the room, how loud do you play, etc. I'm guessing it's akin to photography, in order to get the most out of the camera, you need really good...

I really like the sound of my little amp, but it's way to small to leave on the floor. I thought of buying an amplifier stand that gets it off the floor and tilts it back, but that would have made the controls hard to see and use. My solution was to locate the center of gravity of the amp, then...

Back in '76-77 I started work a doubleneck guitar, but never completed the project. Over the years I'd had it in my mind that all the parts were Ibanez, I'm pretty sure the tailstops and tunamatics were. The other day someone on craigslist asked for Ibanez pickups, so I dug out the box to have...

Here's the story. Back in '76-77 I was working as a tech in a music shop in Green Bay, and one of the amps that came though for repair was a Garnet head (made in Canada). My test bench at that time had a crappy 12" speaker in the kind of baffle that you'd see high on the wall of burger joints...

It seems the fashion of the day is to mount the hotter pickup at the bridge position and match it with a weaker pickup at the neck. I'm wondering if this was also the case when PAFs were originally installed. As far as I have read, Gibson did wind to purposely make two variations -- does anyone...