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DIY: 4 Minor Guitar Repairs Anyone Can Do Without a Tech
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DIY: 4 Minor Guitar Repairs Anyone Can Do Without a Tech

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The Dangers of Replacing Your Vintage Acoustic’s Tuners
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The Dangers of Replacing Your Vintage Acoustic’s Tuners

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Reader Guitar of the Month

Reader Guitar of the Month: Old Yeller

Facing Down a Ruptured Eardrum
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Facing Down a Ruptured Eardrum

Our steady-gigging Nashville correspondent faces a ruptured eardrum and considers his recovery.

DIY: How to String a Gibson-Style Electric Guitar
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DIY: How to String a Gibson-Style Electric Guitar

How to Install and Maintain Your Guitar's Pots
Mod Garage

How to Install and Maintain Your Guitar's Pots

When it comes to cosmic tone, it’s critical to have functional potentiometers. Here’s how to install them correctly and keep them ship-shape afterward.

Pros & Cons of Pitched Vs. Straight Headstocks
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Pros & Cons of Pitched Vs. Straight Headstocks

Boutique luthier Jol Dantzig (cofounder of Hamer Guitars) examines the potential perils of different headstock angles and the balance between performance and ease of construction.

DIY: How to Adjust Electric-Guitar Intonation
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DIY: How to Adjust Electric-Guitar Intonation

Gruhn Guitars' setup guru Nathan Golliher shows how to easily make your Strat, Les Paul, and Telecaster ring true up and down the fretboard.

The Break Dance Behind the Bridge
Bass

The Break Dance Behind the Bridge

The zen of break angle mechanics and why tone relies more on the tail than the head.

Keeping Frets on the Level
Electric Guitars

Keeping Frets on the Level

We all know dead strings can compromise our tone, but so can fret wear.

DIY: Relic’ing Metal Hardware
Gear

DIY: Relic’ing Metal Hardware

Our series on how to age a guitar, piece by piece, continues. This month we tackle the bridge and strap buttons.

Swiss Cheese and Vibrating Instruments
Bass

Swiss Cheese and Vibrating Instruments

Does artificially breaking in a guitar by “exciting” it really work—at least in the manner we hope it will? And what does that have to do with cheese?