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I have been playing with the lap steel on and off now for a couple days and I have discovered that the tuning heads were installed...

You now have me thinking about getting a chorus device, but I’m playing it through the crybaby Wah Wah and it sounds great. Me? I sound...

Those Rogue lap steels are fun. I had one years ago. I put lighter strings on it and tuned it up to open G like my Dobro. Mine was an...

Here we can see that Carl was right. The new bass didn’t quite fit in this case. It‘s about 2” too long. For some reason I’ve always...

The Fojill bass came today. No damage, but not set up. I spent two hours adjusting the truss rod and the bridge. They ship this with...

The 2.4 tire fits! This is an Araya rim, at least that what it is labeled as. It has decent chrome so it might be authentic. After 4...

They pivot, but only in one direction, the bracket contacts the frame as a stop. I could cut the nub and make it a swingbike.

This is my third entry. You can tell I don't have anything else to do but work on bikes. This is a 20" folder. The frame is new and I...

Oh yes… I found this classic Cry Baby Wah Wah pedal. I’ve only touched one of these before in my life so it’s quite an adventure.

I had a change of heart about the bridge and I ended up making it from aluminum. Don’t tell anybody, but I used a metric square. The...

I really hated the stock tail piece, because it seems so regular and square on this swoopy mid-century jellybean of a guitar Here I...

The lady who sold me the Silvertone had this as well, with the tattered case, and it is a real player. Not some warped up wallhanger...

Squier Strat...nothing really special, but I purchased at the world famous House Of Guitars in Rochester...sold to me by Armand Schaubroeck

By the way, before Jimi Hendrix played the Stratocaster upside down, he played one of these. The Sears Silvertone model 1448, made...

Ah haha . . . That one was not too dear to let go eh? Or, do you mean it’s still in the closet somewhere?