We’re putting in the frets in the Hofner Verithin, with Jingo using decidedly third world techniques and tools to do it with. According to this article, frets should be pressed into the fingerboard, not hammered in, but since we don’t have the proper instruments this will have to do. To his credit, Jingo is a [...]
As you can probably tell, I just recently discovered YouTube. I did a search on my favorite guitarist, Phil Keaggy and I discovered that there are a few videos of him posted there, including this one:
This has nothing to do with guitars but is all about music. We had lunch at a beach restaurant here in Davao City on Mother’s Day and found some boys roaming around and offering to rap for us for a few coins. I normally don’t like giving money to mendicants but these boys proved they [...]
In case you didn’t believe me when I said I played a Gretsch Vegas at church once, here’s a picture of me playing with it again. I was recently at the office my good friend and role model Jun C, who owns the guitar, and found that he had brought it because he had a [...]
Last Monday night I was privileged to sit alongside five talented guitarists for the first meeting of a guitarists’ group we had been planning to organize here in Davao City. Dante Arevalo, guitarist of the band Punch 9, had graciously allowed us to use his home for the first gig when plans to use a [...]
Got this email from Dante, a Davao City-based guitar player-friend: “I was at Perfect Pitch at Park Square and there was a guy trying out a Line 6 Variax Acoustic. It was great. It models a lot of sounds. It can’t copy nylon strings but the steel strings are OK. The 12-string is also cool. [...]
If you’ve always wanted a hollow-body electric guitar but have never been able to afford one, I have the answer for you. I was at MegaMall in Manila over the past weekend and stumbled upon a store at the fifth floor that sells, among others, great guitars at unbelievably low prices. It’s really easy to [...]
I wrote before that my preferred picks are thin, but of late I have had a change of heart. I read an article in which a guitarist extolled the virtues of heavy picks, saying, “the heavier the pick, the bigger the sound” (or something to that effect). I didn’t believe it initially and went to [...]
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