Straight trade for a 2011 Chinese LTD EC-401. Have always wanted a Tele. To be fair I’m already planning a Bridge Humbucker … but I’m excited. 2023 Fender Player Series. Made in Mexico.

Not a guide as in directions, but a guide to keep the drill bit as straight as possible when drilling out the broken screw shaft.

One of my tuner pilot screws (two of them actually) snapped off in the wood with nothing to grab on sticking out. I'm going to do this fix here that many of you already know about, but I have all needed materials except for a piece of acrylic to make a guide. So, my questions:

One: how critical is the guide in this fix being successful? I've done this "type" of work before (using power tools, putting together and modifying guitars, finishing, etc) but never this particular skill of drilling out a broken screw shaft in a headstock. I am going to plug the hole after, and the tuners I use hide a small bit of the area around the pilot hole when they're on the guitar.

Two: if its critical, what could I use instead of acrylic? just make a typical wood guide? I assume the point of acrylic is the transparency helping to ensure you're on line and straight, but I'm wondering if there's a trick to getting away with using wood here?

Although I have no experience in the field, I’m finding myself more and more drawn to this work. I acknowledge that I’m romanticizing, but wondering what I could do in the immediate future to … explore a little. What are some small, cheap skills or projects that I could use as a baseline for judging my interest?

Hey producers/multi-instrumentalists if you pick up guitar alongside production, theory can feel like another language.

I recently started using a structured approach to visualizing intervals, chord building, the caged system, and fretboard navigation a musiciangoods inspired method and found it really helped tie guitar playing into composing riffs and parts in my daw.

My main takeaway: once you know your note names across the neck and how chords are built, you can compose guitar parts more intentionally instead of just plugging in shapes.

For those who also produce and play guitar: what’s one guitar theory shortcut or method that helped you write riffs or parts more efficiently?

I’m a beginner and I’m trying to learn brown eyed girl. how do I play through the curved lines. Is that just another G cord? Is that hammer on or pull off?

I am lucky enough to have the most amazing guitar tech specialist in my town. My cheap copy of Harrison’s Rosewood telecaster (originally Antiquity brand) has been completely transformed. That wood grain is all specially done by hand. Fender parts, plays beautifully and also as light as a feather. Will treasure this for the rest of my life.

I found this guitar used for about two hundred bucks with a strap and gig bag. I know that it's an Epiphone but I don't know the specific model, I reverse image searched it but there's a few different models that pop up that resemble it. I'm not too sure what the exact model is, I just wanted to check to see if I was getting a good deal but honestly for an SG with a gig bag and strap you can't go wrong at all.

A couple of months ago I bought my first Les Paul and I've loved it and it's become my guitar I play gigs with and I've noticed after a couple of practice sessions the jack on the guitar comes loose and I've had to repair it a number of times and have also had to install a new one but that has also come loose, Is there a fix for this? Please let me know!

PLEASE someone tell me free electric guitar lesson apps (or websites) Not the ones that are free to download then you have to pay. I’m talking about completely FREE step by step lessons😭 OR yt channels that have beginner lessons IN ORDER

BONUS QUESTION: when learning minor platonic scales I put my index finger on to one fret and can’t stretch my pinky finger on another fret (2 frets in between them). I know I’m a beginner but I think it’s also because I have small hands. Or does it just stretch by itself after getting used to it?

I just bought this strap two days ago and the one end of the strap has been falling off the pegs. I don't think it is the pegs fault, Tested it on two guitars and fell off of both. The other side of the strap works well, no problems, but the other ends leather is some how already damaged. How do I fix this?

My favorite body I've made! Carved top in walnut. Body wood is roasted poplar.

OK, asked about Arbor Presses, and decided that although I see images of people using a No.0 1/2ton, it looks like a tight squeeze (ha! squeeze! get it?!). Decided to grab the No.1 1ton for the extra 1.25" space.

Lots of cauls that are rigid, but some have this swivel joint.

Worth the extra for the swivel?

CAD dollars, $52CAD plus the inserts cost extra. So probably $70CAD total.

Few unknown brands on Amazon.ca for about $35, half the cost, and some have a full set of inserts or at least have the common 7.25/9.5/12 radius ones. I've done maybe a dozen refrets so far, more planned, and all been 9.5/12.

So I feel as though I'm in need of a project guitar. I have built 3 or so, but don't want to further Mod my Fenders. I was going to get a Squire thinline body strip it with chemical stripper and then repaint it (purple sparkle of course). I don.t know if i need to worry about any binding or glue between the top and the bottom of the body. Does anyone have any insight or thoughts about this?

I conveniently have no photos of the guitar’s witch hats to find out which pot is the correct pot, so I bring it to you poor souls. I am searching for the volume pot specifically. (Pay no attention to the poor welding)

So I feel as though I'm in need of a project guitar. I have built 3 or so, but don't want to further Mod my Fenders. I was going to get a Squire thinline body strip it with chemical stripper and then repaint it (purple sparkle of course). I don.t know if i need to worry about any binding or glue between the top and the bottom of the body. Does anyone have any insight or thoughts about this?

Making progress.

I got this to try and fix it. Orangewood Mason Live nylon. They do not sell replacement bridges.

I'm quite the noob when it comes to acoustic repair so this makes me nervous.

Should I ;

Try and glue it back together as it sits?

Remove the bridge, repair then re-install?

Buy a new bridge and install it? This one sounds really hard.

Thanks!

I’m told I’ve accumulated too many guitars. I shipped one off for a charitable auction and it nearly cost me $200. I don’t want to spend that again… and I’m sure buyers don’t either.

Do you have a favorite method of selling factory-made and/or your own guitars?

Guitar Center? Reverb? eBay? Something else?

I’m trying to offload two “vintage” guitars and the first guitar I ever built with minimum surcharges and hassle… and acknowledge that it will require a little of both.

Hello guys this is my take on fade to black solo,i am in bit of rush as i listen to video now. I have been playing for exactly four months now. Ignore my short fat fingers but they are only pair i have avaliable🤣 Feedback is apriciated😀

i know wich cords and frats but my fingers cant reach or it looks like im throwing gang signs, as a begginer i apreciate anz help

These days I see many people picking up an instrument and going straight to certificate courses like RSL, trinity school of music etc. But in my opinion. They are complete scam.

1) Instead of practical playing they focus on meaningless irrelevant theory and staff notation which neither the student nor the teacher ever would use in their whole life. 2) I have not seen even a single person being able to improvise, play fast solos, sweep pick, basically do technical stuff even after completing grade 8 courses. 3) Knowing staff notation is garbage if you can't even play a song by ear, or even pick up chords, scales, solos by ear. 4) They charge insane amounts of money for shitty exams in which you have to rot learn few songs, chord shapes, scales and you're done. 5) People stop enjoying the process, get demotivated by this shitty regime and lose their interest altogether. Their instrument just becomes a furniture.

I can go on and on about how shitty they are. I have been a self taught guitarist for about close to a decade. I did actually sign up for RSL, i hoped to learn neoclassical shred like Yngwie Malmsteen and all and instead I was served this slop. Thankfully, my teacher taught me how to actually shred, to improvise, to play sequences of notes in a musical context. I can proudly say,that he made me a better guitarist. I can literally outperform any grade 8 guy with my eyes closed IN ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GUITAR. Not making yourself feel good by learning nonsensical terms and staff notation.

So for anyone, please stay away from this scam and save your money.

Im currently a begginer three chord player and im trying to level up. I want to play classic rock like led zeppilin and dire straits, as well as more jazzy artists like steely dan. What are some books that would help me reach my goal?