The Bench
Maple vs. Rosewood Fretboard: Does It Actually ...
A maple or rosewood fretboard changes how a guitar feels and ages more than how it sounds. An honest bench take on tone, playability, wear, and how the two boards...
Maple vs. Rosewood Fretboard: Does It Actually ...
A maple or rosewood fretboard changes how a guitar feels and ages more than how it sounds. An honest bench take on tone, playability, wear, and how the two boards...
How to Date a Used Gibson by the Serial Number
The number stamped on the back of the headstock usually is the date once you know which of Gibson's serial-number eras you're reading. Here's how to decode the modern eight-digit...
How to Date a Used Gibson by the Serial Number
The number stamped on the back of the headstock usually is the date once you know which of Gibson's serial-number eras you're reading. Here's how to decode the modern eight-digit...
Are Coated Strings Worth It? An Honest Take Fro...
Coated strings don't upgrade your tone — they preserve it. An honest bench take on Elixir vs. regular strings: what a coating really does, the tone-and-feel tradeoff, whether the 3–5x...
Are Coated Strings Worth It? An Honest Take Fro...
Coated strings don't upgrade your tone — they preserve it. An honest bench take on Elixir vs. regular strings: what a coating really does, the tone-and-feel tradeoff, whether the 3–5x...
Why Does My Guitar Neck Dive — and Can You Actu...
A diving headstock is a balance problem, not a weight problem. What actually causes neck dive, why the SG is the poster child, and the fixes that work — ranked,...
Why Does My Guitar Neck Dive — and Can You Actu...
A diving headstock is a balance problem, not a weight problem. What actually causes neck dive, why the SG is the poster child, and the fixes that work — ranked,...
Does a Treble Bleed Actually Work? The Volume-K...
A tech's honest take on the treble bleed mod: what it actually fixes, the cap and resistor values that matter, the three common builds, the downsides, and whether you really...
Does a Treble Bleed Actually Work? The Volume-K...
A tech's honest take on the treble bleed mod: what it actually fixes, the cap and resistor values that matter, the three common builds, the downsides, and whether you really...
Do Boutique Tone Caps Actually Change Your Tone?
For the same value, a tone capacitor's material — paper-in-oil, film, ceramic, Bumblebee or orange drop — makes no difference you can hear. The value does. An honest, from-the-bench look...
Do Boutique Tone Caps Actually Change Your Tone?
For the same value, a tone capacitor's material — paper-in-oil, film, ceramic, Bumblebee or orange drop — makes no difference you can hear. The value does. An honest, from-the-bench look...