Who doesn’t love a good guitar pedal? I can remember buying my first one, a Vox Wah Wah that weighed a ton and ate batteries like they were Tic Tacs… those were good times. What wasn’t so good was how I used to store it. Or more specifically how I didn’t store it. I’ll be … Read more
Storing your guitar is an important, and sometimes overlooked, aspect of owning this instrument. With so many accessories on the market today designed to help you store your six-string, it can sometimes be a little overwhelming. But what if you don’t want to use these accessories? What if money’s a little tight at the moment … Read more
Guitar strings break. That’s just a fact… The odd broken string here and there is not an uncommon thing for a guitarist to deal with. But at what point does it become too much? How often really, should your guitar strings be breaking? For a properly maintained and treated six-string, you can realistically expect to … Read more
The moment when you bend the G string just right to hit the perfect blues note is glorious – the occasional following moment when you play the next lick and the guitar is out of tune is a worst-case scenario we all have been through. The main reasons a guitar goes out of tune when … Read more
When you’re not busy strumming away at your guitar or working on that new alternative picking technique, you’re gonna need a place to store your six-string that’s safe and reliable. If you’re limited by space or a small room, don’t worry, there are plenty of storage options for keeping your guitar organized and ready for … Read more
Time is the ultimate tone-shaper, and corrosion is an unavoidable reality of anything made of metal. We all picked up a random cool-looking axe off a wall at least once and felt we held a relic just cause of the rusty guitar strings. In some scenarios, I even picked up my old guitars off cases … Read more