I made a mistake the last time I bought a set of strings two weeks ago. I had intended to get Martins again, but the store I went to, SoundChaser, did not have them. My instinct told me to leave and go to Victoria Plaza where I bought my Martins in February (the set that [...]
Last Monday night wasn’t exactly the most auspicious of nights in which to hold our second meeting, but the members of Guitar Guild Davao went ahead and jammed at the Elevation bar along Jacinto Extension here in Davao City. It was raining a little heavily that night, and outside the Mindanao Daily Mirror office the [...]
Here’s a shot my wife took of me playing with the Hofner Verithin at our living room. Notice I that I said “playing with” it, not actually playing it, because it’s not complete yet. About the only thing going for it now is that I’ve intonated it, so I can play any chord and any [...]
I should have posted this about two weeks ago because it’s been with me for that long, but I put off writing about the Hofner Verithin I’m restoring because it’s not complete yet. As you can see, I still don’t have pickups and volume/tone controls for it, and the tailpiece leaves something to be desired [...]
funky-monkz, one of the founders of Guitar Guild Davao, alerted the group to this video of Jake Shimabukuro playing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on the ukulele. The late great George Harrison, who wrote the song, was also a mean uke player, so this tribute to him makes a whole lot of sense. This just [...]
I woke up with a start. I had been trying to sleep for a few hours after arriving home from a family trip to Epol in Marilog (in the mountain area of Davao City), sick to the bone with a rather nasty strain of flu, but rest would not come easy because I was having [...]
I realized as I was playing guitar last Sunday at church that my strings were exactly three months old that day. I bought that set on February 28, my 40th birthday, and the strings are still useable up to today. Not as bright and crisp as when I first used them, but still OK – [...]
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:
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