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Tonewood Teardown: Upgrading Your Single-Pickup Guitar’s Wiring

In the eleventh installment of our ongoing project, we wire up our Esquire-style electric with some simple tricks to boost its versatility.

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Tonewood Teardown: Pickups and Wiring for an Esquire-Style Electric

Our columnist’s upgraded pickup and electronics choices for his Harley Benton guitar

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Mod Garage Tonewood Teardown: Fixing Up Your Bridge and Saddles

Our budget-guitar experiment rolls forth with work on the body’s hardware.

Mod Garage Tonewood Teardown: Chasing the “Closet-Classic” Look
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Mod Garage Tonewood Teardown: Chasing the “Closet-Classic” Look

In the next installment of this ongoing series, our columnist walks you through several customization and aging techniques for your guitar’s hardware.

Mod Garage Guitar Makeover: Optimize Your Electric Guitar’s Body
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Mod Garage Guitar Makeover: Optimize Your Electric Guitar’s Body

Next in this ongoing experiment, our columnist uses toothpicks, cardboard, and styrofoam to fine-tune his T-style electric.

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Mod Garage Guitar Makeover: Neck-Pocket Cleanup and DIY Routing

Next on this tonewood teardown miniseries, our columnist cleans out his Harley Benton electric’s neck pocket and preps the control cavities.

Mod Garage DIY Guitar Makeover: First Steps and Needle Files
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Mod Garage DIY Guitar Makeover: First Steps and Needle Files

The tonewood teardown miniseries continues as our columnist sets to work on his T-style Harley Benton electric.

Tonewood Teardown: How Good Can a Cheap Guitar Sound?
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Tonewood Teardown: How Good Can a Cheap Guitar Sound?

Get out your tool box and follow along over the next few months as our columnist overhauls a bargain-bin 6 string.