Vintage Fender Electric Guitars

Talkin' 56' Blond Strat & Tele

2008-11-13T14:52:00.001-05:00

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe: The Review From Overdriven To Super-Lead Tones

2008-10-16T11:44:00.002-04:00

Hey Joe Penatonic Scale Lesson Solo

2008-10-14T17:45:00.001-04:00

Bad Cat Amps Little (lil) 15

2008-10-07T12:56:00.000-04:00

B.B King Guitar Lesson- How To Play Like B.B King

2008-09-29T18:28:00.002-04:00

His vibrato and other tips are covered nicely.

1956 Fender Telecaster (All Original, NOT a reissue)

2008-09-22T23:19:00.001-04:00

Guitar Heroes L.A Style: Beautiful Cut Of "Wasted On The Way" From '82-CSN

2008-09-13T23:39:00.001-04:00

Beautiful, right?

YouTube - mesa boogie and peavey classic 30

2008-09-04T21:10:00.001-04:00

This is just noise to me. Which one do you like?

YouTube - mesa boogie and peavey classic 30

Blogged with the Flock Browser

2008-09-04T21:04:00.001-04:00

Image via Wikipedia New Guitar Pedal from Retro Sonic. What do you think?

Get Better Now: 30 Amazingly-Useful Websites For Guitarists. That's Right. You.

2008-07-28T23:12:00.002-04:00

Add your own in the comments.

But for now, go here

Learn To Play Guitar & Bend Strings From Buddy Guy

2008-07-16T12:41:00.002-04:00

Buddy Guy Teaches how to bend strings- new video

Buddy Guy Talks About Clapton Not Knowing A Strat Was Good For Blues

2008-07-16T12:36:00.003-04:00

Who knew that E.C was clueless?

Fender Taps Billy Corgan For New Fender Signature Guitar

2008-07-14T15:03:00.003-04:00

Smashing Pumpkins front-man Billy Corgan has gotten the ultimate slap on the back from Fender: Getting invited to design his own Custom Signature guitar...

This is big news for the Fender crowd, switching to a more alternative audience, well, maybe not, if you could Smashing Pumpkins as good old rock n' roll.

What say you?

Should Billy get his own Fender?

Read more about it here

Had To Share: VOX AC30 Demos With Tom Petty Sounds and Others

2008-07-07T21:29:00.002-04:00

What sounds do you like to get out of it?

Classic rock heaven or is Fender amps better?

Should I Build My Own Telecaster Fender Guitar?

2008-07-06T15:20:00.001-04:00

I want it to look like this:

Your thoughts?

Fender Guitars For The Month Of June: Around The Web

2008-06-16T18:07:00.004-04:00

It seems to be a pretty busy month for the Fender brand name, with a few cool news items crossing your path.

1. Terry Clark gets her own Fender guitar model:

"I truly believe I may not have achieved what I have if I had not been a player," she notes. "I accompanied myself through every live label and publishing audition and played for tips so I could buy bread and milk when I first moved to Nashville."

2. The Guitar Wars movie is finally coming out. We've covered this topic before but I am really excited to see this movie which covers the Fender Vs. Gibson guitar wars of the last 50 years. Check out the movie, which is called "Solidbodies, The 50 Year Guitar War". I think you can find it on amazon here. In fact, the movie has Derek Trucks in it too, so its has got to be pretty solid. If anyone has seen it, let us know here.

3. Famous Auctions: Hendrix & Pink Floyd
The guitar that Hendrix burned is now going up for auction. The '65 Fender Strat was destroyed at the Hendrix concert at the London Astoria, on March 31st, 1967, which is about 41 years ago. I assume this is the Star Spangled Banner Strat, so let's get a vid of that, shall we? In fact, this is from Motery Pop, so it might not be the same date. Also, Pink Floyd is having a guitar auction as well.

Electric Guitar-How To Make Your Own Electric Guitar

2008-06-13T17:36:00.000-04:00

Make Your Own Electric Guitar
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ricky_Sharples]Ricky Sharples

The idea of this article on making your own electric guitar is to give you a real, practical idea of the magnitude of the job and the skills, tools and raw materials needed to make your own electric guitar. The original electric guitar was a railway sleeper with strings. The designer, Les Paul, finally marketed his invention with a guitar shape because he felt that was what people expected of an electric guitar, not because any particular shape was really necessary to make music. One thing you need to get straight on now is you will not save money by making your own guitar. If you want a cheap electric guitar, there's one with your name on it at your nearest music store.

So if you fancy yourself as a designer, you could try making an electric guitar to your own specifications but you will need certain materials to work with. The first thing you will need is a love of working with wood. The second is an arsenal of power tools like drills, routers, saws, and fiddly bits of hardware. Your environment is also crucial. You will need a workspace which is not too hot or cold or wet or dry!

When you design your home made electric guitar, you will need to know how long your neck is going to be and how far apart your frets will be. You will also have a choice of the basic shape of the head of your guitar - the part that holds the tuning pegs.

You probably already know that a pickup near the neck gives a deeper sound than a pickup close to the bridge. The placement and configuration of the pickups on an electric guitar is a science in itself.

Solid body electric guitars are usually made from maple, ash, mahogany, alder, basswood or nut because they possess proven sound qualities for guitar manufacturing. You will need to buy your wood from a sawmill in lengths rather larger than needed for guitar making, and you will need to cut the wood down to size before making your guitar. You will also need hardware like machine heads, pick guards, fret wire, bridge and whammy bar mechanism. You will also need hardware if you use a bolt-on neck.

For the electronic parts of your electric guitar, you will need pickups - single coil or humbucker, shielding to cut down hum and associated knobs, nuts and grommets.

The first job in making your own electric guitar is making a template of your instrument from plywood. The template is your exact pattern for your finished guitar, and needs to be crafted with care. If you find yourself cutting corners at this stage you may as well stop this project and continue with the home brewing you started two winters ago.

To finish off this short essay, I should mention that there exists another solution for people wanting to make their own electric guitar - the electric guitar kit. As an example, the Yamaha EG-112PF Electric Guitar Kit contains: EGP112 Electric Guitar 2 Single coil pickups 1 Humbucking pickup Vintage vibrato system 5 position pickup switch Tremolo bar Master Volume and Master Tone controls Maple neck Chrome closed tuning hardware Bolt-on neck construction Rosewood fingerboard Basswood body No coil split Scale length: 25-1/2" (648 mm) Nut width: 1-5/8" (41mm) Radius: 13-3/4 (350 mm) Frets: 22 Color: Black with white pick guard Guitar cable included GA10 Amplifier 7 watts of power 5" speaker Volume, Tone Bass, Distortion / Clean controls Headphone jack Dimensions: 10.4" (w) x 10.0" (h) x 6.4" (d) Complete Starter Kit Electronic tuner - YT120 Special Yamaha gig bag Extra set of strings Picks Strap with Yamaha logo String winder Capo Guitar method book. I found it on Amazon while looking through 1,320,000 results for a Google search on "electric guitar kits"! Best of luck!

Ricky Sharples has been playing guitar his whole life, and is presently engaged in building a blog called [http://playaguitarforfree.com/ ]Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free. Ricky's blog features free tools, lessons and resources for guitarists of all ages and stages. Ricky updates the blog regularly so if you are interested in learning to play guitar there will be an enormous variety of tip, tools and tutorials for you.

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The 50 Fastest Guitarists Of All TIme? With Video

2008-06-12T11:21:00.001-04:00

Who is YOUR Favorite? Debate it in the comments please :)

It All Started In Brooklyn: Gretsch Guitars Celebrates 125 Years Of Classic Tone

2008-06-11T12:05:00.003-04:00

From the e-mail I got this morning:

Since its beginning in a Brooklyn music store 125 years ago, Gretsch has become one of the world's most respected music brands and the guitar of choice for celebrated players as diverse as Chet Atkins, Brian Setzer and the Reverend Horton Heat.

Come celebrate our 125th anniversary at GretschGuitars.com where we highlight our brand-new G6120-125 Chet Atkins 125th Anniversary "Limited Edition" and G6118T-125 125th Anniversary guitars. Also check out the latest news, updates, and inspiring Gretsch history.

I was so inspired by Gretsch, the tone, man. Put on any CSN&Y record, and you'll instantly be transported back to that shimmer and shine. Plus, the Beatles were big users of Gretsch. Who is your favorite Gretsch player?

I guess Bo Diddley and the guys from ZZ Top count too.

Visit Gretsch Here

Vintage Fender Amp Vs. Reissue: Is Reissue Just As Good? Your Thoughts

2008-06-03T11:50:00.002-04:00

Guy from Norah Jones band plays his Tele through a Princeton re-issue.

Fender G-DEC Amp Vs. Line 6 Pod?

2008-05-23T12:22:00.003-04:00

It seems to be that Fender G-DEC has got some awesome effects and sounds from a tiny amp- with some of the leading names in the industry touting it's features.

But, is Line 6 Pod and Mini-Pod better?

Your thoughts, please.

Here's An Easy Introduction To Reading Guitar Tabs

2008-05-16T12:51:00.001-04:00

It's much easier to learn how to read guitar tabs than it is to learn sight reading on guitar. Knowing exactly which fret and string to put your fingers on is the main advantage of tabs over notes. However, most tabs don't clearly express the rhythm of the music so it's best to also have a recording of the song you are learning.

Guitar tabs are written on a six lined staff. Each line represents a string on the guitar. The top line of a guitar tab is for the high E string, and the bottom line is for the low E string. All of the other strings fall between in order.

Here's what a guitar tab staff looks like:

e--------------------- <- high E string
B--------------------- <- B string
G--------------------- <- G string
D--------------------- <- D string
A--------------------- <- A string
E--------------------- <- low E string

Sometimes the string names won't be written at the beginning of the tab staff, and it will look something like this:

-----------------------------------------------
------7--5-----------------8-----------8/10-
------7--5h6----------------7b9r7p6--------
--------------7---5-6-7----------------------
----------------7--------0--------------------
--5-5-----------------------------------------

But don't worry, it works just the same as before.

If you're not quite sure about your string names yet, here's an easy mnemonic device to help you remember them:

Ed And Dan Go Bowling Every Day.

What do the numbers mean?

The numbers on the lines tell you which frets to play. So, a 1 will mean the first fret, 2 stands for the second fret, etc. If you see a zero, that means to play the open string.

Here's an example:

e--------------------
B--------------------
G--------------------
D-----2--------------
A--------1-0---------
E--0----------3--0---

Alright, let's walk through it.

First, play the open low E string. Then play the second fret on the D string. After that play the first fret on the A string, then the open A string. Play the third fret on the low E string, and finally the open low E string again.

See? It's not hard to figure out how to read guitar tabs!

What about chords?

Chords are written the same way, except the fret numbers are stacked on top of one another. Here's an E7 chord for example:

e--0-----
B--0-----
G--1-----
D--0-----
A--2-----
E--0-----

Sometimes, if you're supposed to take your time strumming, the tab will look like this:

e------0-
B-----0--
G----1---
D---0----
A--2-----
E-0------

There are some other symbols that you are likely to see on tabs besides just numbers. Here's a list of what they mean:

* h - hammer on
* p - pull off
* / - slide up
* - slide down
* b - bend
* r - release bend
* ~ or v - vibrato
* x - mute
* t - tap
* pm - palm mute
* tr - trill, rapid hammer ons and pull offs

So, learning how to read guitar tabs is not that hard, especially when you compare it to note reading! To get the most out of a tab, get a recording of a song to practice with and get the rhythm from.

Scott Anderson writes about the guitar. Visit http://www.guitaristreviews.com

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FenderGuitarVault.com is live!

2008-05-04T10:20:00.003-04:00

Fender Guitar Vault is now live- awesome. Get hourly selections on Fender Strats, Teles, Vintage fender guitars, RELICS, HEAVY RELICS and CUSTOM SHOP Fender guitars!

Check it out at Fender Guitar Vault.com

What The Heck is A V Shaped Neck and A C Shaped Fender Guitar Neck?

2008-05-03T14:08:00.003-04:00

This video should explain it.

NEW! Steve WInwood Debuts "Dirty City" Video With Eric Clapton On Guitar

2008-05-01T15:17:00.003-04:00

Pretty darn cool. Dig the custom strat color, or maybe it's ocean foam?

Anyone know?