Ok here is a different one. I've been working on the song Ashokan Fairwell, the main theme music from Ken Burns Civl War series. It's a fiddle tune in...

Try auto parts stores for the very fine grade sand papers. If you can find a parts store that caters to autobody shops you can find sandpaper down to ...

It could be damage from a cheap or mis-aplied capo. I've seen damage like that before but never to that nice of a guitar.

No Banjo or Mandolin players? A very light pencil mark or two will go a long way in making reseting the intonation a lot easier. I do this with the ba...

That is a wide net! Willie Nelson = P.Diddy? Ralph Stanley = Z.Z. Top? O.K.

The Oldiron comes from my collecting and restoring old engines. Family members would give me a hard time about my "rusty junk". That was till I had a ...

All we need is another hand!I've been building a collection of NOS tubes. I have an old Tectronics scope, Marconi spec-an, H-P VTVM and several signal...

That one is nice. The reviews I've read on the Sam Bush model have been better than the ones on the 25,000 dollar F5 Master mandolins

That was just a safety thing we always observed. The thyratrons we used in power supplies were running at 400 volts but with a lot more current than w...

A G-DEC and a home build 10w class a. More than enough for somebody who isn't a giging musican. Now I need to figure out how to buid a MIDI interface...

Some of the Eastern European tube manufacturers have quality control issues. I'll try to find some of the links for the antique radio sites that still...

There are two factors come into play at high volume levels. The first is distortion, how much are you willing to tolerate? Distorted tube amps (driven...

I've got first claim on that mandolin :wink:

I live in Cranes Mill Texas which is about 20 miles from New Braunfels and 35 from San Antonio. The general area is Canyon Lake Tx. This is a hot area...