To dovetail or to bolt on, that's the question. There are roughly two ways to attach a guitar neck to the body: 1: You can slide it into the body with a dovetail. The connection is then 'wood on wood'. 2: You can tighten the neck to the body with o... 23 July 2020
The best free apps for guitarists! Tune Need some help tuning your guitar? A very easy and affordable way to that is with a headstock tuner. You just click it on the headstock of yourguitar and it uses the vibrations of the instrument ... 17 July 2020
The five most important questions about Vintage Guitars! When is a guitar vintage? For antiques it is very easy: after exactly one hundred years something becomes antique. With guitars it is slightly more complicated, because 'vintage' just means secondhand... 16 July 2020
Five podcasts every guitarist should listen to! 1 Gitaarmannen (Dutch) Made in Holland by Ed Struijlaart. He started it to promote his theatre tour, but now that has come and gone, what remains is his podcast. If you understand Dutch it is great fu... 3 July 2020
Vintage Acoustic Guitars, what are the best alternatives? Let’s be honest: nothing sounds like a real vintage guitar. That dry, aged, full sound of old wood is truly unique. So if you want that particular vintage sound: buy a vintage gitaar . But it is good ... 2 July 2020
What are the best new strings for my electric guitar? When should I replace strings on my electric guitar? As with strings on western guitars, this differs strongly from: after each performance, till: if they break. Even with electric guitars, it really ... 26 June 2020
What guitar does Ed Sheeran play? Good news for anyone who wants to sound and play like Ed Sheeran: you can easily do so on a budget! After some brief flirtations with other models, Ed Sheeran ended up with the very affordableMartin L... 24 June 2020
Lakewood Guitars | Weekly Highlight! The brand name automatically steers you to the United States, but Lakewood is less than a five-hour drive away from our home address here in the Netherlands. Lakewood guitars are made in Giessen near ... 19 June 2020
The LR Baggs Align Series | Acoustic Guitar Pedals To many of us the magic of an acoustic guitar is that you can just pick it up and play it. No cables, knobs, amplifiers or anything else: just you and a guitar, that’s it. And if you want to record th... 17 June 2020
Buying Vintage Guitars, 5 Tips & Tricks! I got an invitation from Maarten and Rudi to write a little piece about a few of my personal tips and tricks for buying a vintage guitar. Some of you may already know me , but for those who do not: I ... 12 June 2020
Good, Better, Best... Santa Cruz | Weekly Highlight! Ilse de Lange, Milow, Paskal Jakobsen, Tony Rice and many, many others are overjoyed with their guitar from the Santa Cruz Guitar Company (SCGC). Santa Cruz? Chances are that you've never heard of it ... 4 June 2020
A perfect guitar, thanks to the Custom Shop! What's the best guitar you've ever played? Can you see it? Yes? Can you hear it and feel it? Now, here comes the most important question: what would you like to change? Because we all know that most g... 7 May 2020