Bass Guitar repair and installation topics.
A bass guitar pickup template is nothing more than a guide so you can cut the proper sized holes in your bass guitar body to install your pickups in. While traditional luthiers prefer to draw out and cut their own templates from scratch, a pre-made template for many is easier to use (especially if you … Read more
Measuring your bridge to figure out your string spacing and your string-to-string spacing, in either MM or inches.
In the video Max will walk you through the installation from start to finish, with some great tips and tricks
If you haven’t heard of the Torzal twist before, it’s something I’ve been quietly working on for the last 15 years or so. The idea came about as a way to address the potentially disastrous consequences of repetitive strain injuries.
A basic tool kit is a crucial gig bag item. When things go wrong out on a gig – and trust us, something always goes wrong – a good tool kit comes up big. You don’t need to stock your entire workbench in there, but a few of the basics will get you out of a few jams.
We talked with custom builder John Kallas from John K Vintage Basses about getting the only guitar Leo Fender ever gave away for free, testing out new G&L guitars, his custom built guitars, and the subtle differences in wood selection.
A little 9-volt battery is the difference between having your rig work perfectly, kicking out the sound you’ve crafted just so, and that MXR M87 Compressor being just a nice looking paper weight for the set list.
In this great video Jeff Babicz from Babicz Guitars takes us step-by-step through the process of installing a Babicz FCH-4 Full Contatct Hardware 4-string Bridge onto a Fender Jazz Bass.
Tony Cochran’s eccentric take on custom guitar building is like none other. When he gets his hands on an old guitar it takes on a whole-new life. Widgets and gadgets, rivets and thingamajigs. His aesthetic is some concoction of Tim Burton and steampunk.
What’s worse than getting all your equipment set up and ready to go only to plug in your cable and being hit with either the silence of a bad cable, or the snap, crackle, and pop of an intermittent cable.
