Why everybody needs a nylon guitar! Guitars with nylon strings have a bit of an image problem. Because they are thought of as a bit nuffy, only suitable for boring music and the neck is also a lot wider than on an electric guitar. If yo... 19 July 2023
Banjo buying guide: How to get the banjo that suits you! A banjo sounds unique, but in a lot of ways it also resembles a guitar, thanks to strings, a body and a neck. Yet a banjo is it’s own thing, thanks to a ‘membrane’ instead of a body. Add to that ... 13 June 2023
Is a PLEK Machine like ChatGPT for a perfect guitar setup? What is a PLEK machine? A PLEK machine looks like a big glass display case with a big rack where you can hang an electric or acoustic guitar But inside that cabinet, anything goes, thanks to super-sma... 11 May 2023
Stomp boxes for acoustic guitars? Oh Yes, Please! At The Fellowship of Acoustics we simply love wood. How it sounds, how it smells, how it feels and the way it looks: we think it's beautiful and there is little that can compete with the sound of a be... 3 May 2023
Why an Amp in a Box might be a great idea Guitarists love a little volume simply because eleven is just one more than ten. ‘Loud is more good’ JHS pedals That was true a century ago when there were only acoustic guitars . First those got stee... 3 May 2023
Tonewood Spotlight: Walnut When it comes to of the perfect tonewood for an acoustic guitar, the battle is often between mahogany or rosewood and both camps have equal fans. But we have been selling guitars for decades and see... 7 February 2023
The Ultimate Martin Custom Shop Experience The longer you play and the more you learn about guitars, the clearer your preferences become. You know which model you like, which types of tonewood appeal to you, what the guitar should look like a... 17 January 2023
Overdrives: A Buyers Guide! We're in love with the overdrive! For most of the Fellows here, it's the first pedal we ever bought. To help you get through the wide variety of models available, here's a little buyers guide. How do ... 11 January 2023
Tonewoods Explained! As long as guitars have been built, and as long as guitars are being built; the discussion on tonewoods will continue. We can't blame them, different kinds of wooddo affect your sound in major ways. E... 1 January 2023
Touchstone by Bourgeois: smartly made Boutique guitars with a modest price tag At The Fellowship of Acoustics we have been admirers of the sublime guitars of Dana Bourgeois , for years, because he is the man who revived OM guitar model in the 80s of the last century. A few years... 2 December 2022
Tonewood Spotlight: Paulownia! When you say Telecaster you say ash wood. Or something more precise: swamp ash or Swamp Ash. Why? Because Leo Fender used it for the first legendary electric guitars in the 1950s. He started with spru... 24 November 2022
What makes an acoustic guitar so expensive? At The Fellowship of Acoustics we have more than 800 guitars in stock and more than half of them are acoustic . In our ‘Acoustic Villa’ we have something for everyone hanging on the wall in various sp... 15 November 2022