Understanding the components of your guitar is all part of learning the instrument and is just as important as chord shapes, scales, what pedals do, and the different types of amplifiers. Knowing the ...

For electric guitar bridges and saddles, steel and brass are kings, and there are plenty of other options: harder and brighter-sounding materials such as stainless steel or tungsten, for example, or ...

While designing a guitar, a regular guitar design follows a fairly consistent blueprint: a body, a neck, and a headstock—where the tuning machines are—strings go from top to bottom. But over the last ...

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