Technical Guitar FAQs and Digests

Compiled and edited from alt.guitar, rec.music.makers.guitar, rec.guitar.amps, rec.music.makers.builders.

Background, overview, disclaimers

What happened to Tim Stanley?

Electric, acoustic, and bass guitar pickup reviews and FAQs.

Guitar Customizing FAQ and Digests

• FAQ and digest: Electrically shielding your guitar.
• FAQ and digest: Electrically grounding your guitar.
• FAQ and digest: Establishing and checking pickup phase before rewiring.
• Vendors: guitar parts .
• W.D. Music Products and making new pickguards.
• FAQ and digest: refinishing your guitar.
• FAQ and digest: adding pearl inlay on your guitar.
• Article: history of guitar evolution.
• Pickup rewiring articles and references.
• FAQ and digest: General articles.

The Dan Armstrong rewiring scheme

• My implementation and review of the Dan Armstrong rewiring scheme.
• More on the Dan Armstrong rewiring scheme.

Electronic Guitar Effects FAQs and Digests

Topical Digests

• FAQ and Digest: Electronic effects construction articles, books, and references.
• Digest: preamp construction articles.
• Digest: headphone amp construction articles.
• Digest: true bypass articles. Circuit diagrams for a true bypass box, and Dunlop's Crybaby mod scanned by Joel Nice.
• Digest: wah-wah articles.
• Digest: Craig Anderton's Tube-sound Fuzz.
• Digest: Fuzz box building and articles.
• Digest: treble booster articles.
• Digest: reducing effects noise articles.
• Digest: miscellaneous, unedited electronic-oriented posts.
• Digest: slide making articles.

Cool stuff you will like, or your money back...

• Jamie Heilman keeps a wonderful www page with many effect schematics.
• R.G. Keen's effects FAQ.

Guitar construction books.

Guitar care and feeding .

Amplification and Speaker FAQs and Digests

• FAQ: R.G. Keen's tube amp FAQ.
• Digest: Amp repair articles.
• Digest: Amp reviews .
• Digest: Speaker articles.
• Digest: Speaker reconing articles.
• Digest: Soundproofing articles.