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Oil vs Ceramic
October 07, 2025 • 6 min read

Oil vs Ceramic

Inside almost every electric guitar, hidden under the tone knob, lies a small, s...

The Bolts That Screwed Fender

The Bolts That Screwed Fender

Instead of the old shim method (slipping business cards, sandpaper, or slivers of wood into the neck pocket to tilt the neck) Fender introduced the three-bolt n...

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Are You Tone Blind?

Are You Tone Blind?

The AssumptionIf you ask most guitarists whether they can tell a Stratocaster from a Les Paul, the answer is usually the same: “Of course.”The Fender vs. Gibson...

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Old Wood vs. New Builds

Old Wood vs. New Builds

Walk into any vintage guitar shop and you will hear it whispered like gospel:“Nothing sounds like old wood.”To believers, decades of vibration, dried resins, an...

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The Forgotten Pickup Before the PAF

The Forgotten Pickup Before the PAF

Every guitarist knows the Gibson PAF humbucker: the warm, fat, noise-free pickup that rewrote the sound of rock and jazz after 1957.But three years earlier, Set...

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The First Coil-Split

The First Coil-Split

Today, nearly every guitarist knows the ritual: pull up the knob, and suddenly your humbucker is a “single-coil.”It feels obvious now. Almost expected.But in th...

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