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I am using this section to cover information about guitars I have or things I have worked on that may be of interest. I don't accept advertising, so nothing here has been sponsored by any vendor or sales organization. These things are my experiances - Good or Bad.

I also hope to share some thoughts and projects I have taken on. These tend to appeal to a narrower band of musicians, but might still be of interest.

As a side note, my instrument preferences may not match yours - thats fine with me. It does, however, cause me to make some choices that may be quite different than you would do - that is also fine with me. Everything here will be things for me or things I've done for other people - I try to match the solutions with the end user. Please feel free to adapt these things to your needs.

Some of my preferences are:

Very light gauge guitar strings. I personally prefer GHS .008 Boomers. Before I bought a Roland GR-20 Guitar Synth I read many places that the GK-3 really required fairly heavy strings (some people said .013's - To me those are like bridge cables). Happily, the GK-3 works great with my .008's.
No vibratos - for me these tend to make the guitar hard to stay in tune (especially if you break a string). There is nothing wrong with them, I just don't own any guitars that have them anymore and I don't miss having a vibrato.
Vintage P-90 or Humbucking Pickups. I find I also like the sound of Danelectro lipstick pickups.
Tube guitar amps.
Managed Volume levels in Clubs - I like the people running sound to be able to adjust the mix so its balenced and fits the rooms needs. This is hard to do if you don't provide a way for this to be controlled.
I like Classic Rock - 50's thru the 90's. I love the classic Motown sound (I also play Bass Guitar). I also like a lot of guitar picking in most types of music. I try to pick up a lot of Jazz styles - it can be applied to lots of different types of music (listen to old Motown recordings - there a lot going on there that had a major influence on commercial music).
I find that there is something to learn from all styles of music. I like learning new things.

I've been playing Guitar since the mid 1960's and Bass since the early 1970's. As a result I have some hearing loss. I prefer things less loud as a result. I still want great tone, but not with ringing in my ears.

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