November 18, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn Here is a quick, “down and dirty” fix for stripped wood screw holes on your guitar and will also work on amplifier back panels. The common quick fix is to take a tooth pick and insert it into the hole making the hole diameter smaller. This will help the wood screw bite into the toothpick [...]
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November 11, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn Here is a tip for players that have a Stratocaster type guitar with a threaded, screw-in trem arm. Sometimes with the vintage type threaded, screw in arms the arm itself is either too loose and just swings uncontrollably when not in use or tightens up in the wrong spot. Either situation can be annoying. By taking [...]
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November 4, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn This Tuesday’s Tip of the Day is for all you players that use an open back combo amp or open back extension cabinet. This tip comes from a personal experience I encountered on a gig. During the soundcheck at a recent gig I noticed that my 5F6-A 4×10 Bassman clone I built sounded a little thin [...]
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October 28, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn Todays tip for Tuesday is about how to repair small tears in speaker cones. You may have a really great sounding speaker with it’s original cone that has a small tear somewhere in the cone. A small tear is around one inch in overall length. Instead of getting the speaker reconed or trying to find [...]
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October 21, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn If you experience hand fatigue and or pain from extended periods of playing there are a few things you can do to prevent it and avoid a more serious condition such as tendonitis or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Hand fatigue happens for a number of reasons. One reason could be your technique. For example if your guitar is worn [...]
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October 7, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn If you are having a problem with machine screws on your guitar or amp coming loose you can use Loctite to prevent this. This is helpful on small screws like the ones used for guitar bridge height adjustment. This also works well for the mounting screws on amp handles that come loose occasionally. I like to use [...]
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September 30, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn This Tuesday’s Tip of the Day comes from a unique feature on the new Joe Bonamassa Signature Les Paul guitar. It seems that Joe was experimenting with some of the components on one of his Les Paul’s and decided to try different saddles on the tune-o-matic bridge. After his experiments he settled on using three [...]
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September 23, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn If you need to adjust your vintage Fender type truss rod with access at the heel or change the battery in your acoustic/electric guitar this tip will help keep your strings in place and make the job alot easier. First thing to do is loosen the strings so they are slack and do not produce [...]
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September 16, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn You can fine tune your tube amplifier with one tube substitution. The tube that you want to change is V1 which is the first gain stage preamp tube. You can tailor the gain structure with different tubes making your amp run cleaner or dirtier and also change the dynamics. For example changing a 12AX7 for [...]
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September 9, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn Here is a tip that most guitar players probably know but the few that don’t could avoid a costly repair to a classical nylon string guitar. Steel string acoustic guitars can be used with nylon strings but your classical nylon string cannot be used with steel strings. The reason you cannot use steel strings on a classical [...]
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September 2, 2008 | Posted by Billy Penn If you have a guitar with stickers on it and want to remove them there is an easy way without harming the guitars finish to get the job done. The most effective way (and safest) for all finish types including nitrocellulose lacquer is to use Naptha. You can get Naptha in hardware stores or even [...]
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