Gibson's legendary "Bone Crusher" In the 1930s, MartinCo hit a sweet spot in their history, because the builders from Nazareth, Pennsylvania had succeeded in creating a new model that everyone wanted: the dreadnought. At the time guit... 17 October 2020
The Ultimate Acoustic Guitar Buying Guide! Do you like it? According to many fathers, mothers and partners and some other unfortunate soles who do not play guitar, you should now be reading a very responsible paragraph about 'budget'. Because ... 17 October 2020
Everything you need to know about the truss rod. Where's the truss rod? Sometimes it's nowhere, because not all guitars have a truss rod. You'll read more about that later. But if there is a truss rod in your guitar, it's in the neck. It is a metal ... 18 September 2020
The magic of nitro! Nitro is an abbreviation for nitrocellulose, a type of paint that took off thanks to the car industry in the 1950s. Until then, there were few good paints that you could spray quickly and in different... 10 September 2020
Lowden Guitars | Weekly Highlight Sometimes it's hard to find the the right words to describe a guitar brand, but for Lowden juse one word will do: quirky. That is exactly why every guitarist should play a Lowden at least once: there ... 27 August 2020
The Gibson J45 or the Martin D18? It's a bit like asking a guitar player, would you rather keep your left or right arm? Well, we would like to have both! But we do understand that most people do not buy two of these world class acoust... 7 August 2020
The Top-70 Telecaster Guitarists! After years of tinkering, in 1950 he had finally succeeded in making an electric guitar with two pickups and an easily replaceable neck. Leo Fender named his brainchild ‘The Broadcaster’. But Gretsch ... 6 August 2020
Furch Guitars | Weekly Highlight Most customers here ask for a 'Furg', with that very hard to pronounce Dutch ‘g’, but in the Czech Republic they say ‘Foerg’. The name might be a bit confusing in some countries, so for a while they w... 30 July 2020
What is the best guitar for a guitar student? In our shop in Dedemsvaart we see a lot of students who study guitar at a Conservatory, Music School or Music Academy ,,And we notice we see them very often," says Maarten Dispa of the Fellowship of A... 24 July 2020
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