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Ibanez Edge block upgrade

Ibanez have made some fantastic locking tremolo bridges over the years. The Edge and Lo Pro Edge are highly regarded amongst Ibanez enthusiasts, and the recently discontinued Edge Pro is starting to receive a lot of praise too. There is a problem inherent to floating tremolo bridges though. They quite …

Restoring a corroded bridge

Guitar hardware can get quite ratty and corroded over time. Climate, humidity, and sweat can eat away at your nice bridge locking nut and tuners, etc. Some hardware finishes are more robust than others, but they don’t always hold up. I’ve noticed that the cosmo chrome and cosmo black finishes …

Suhr style “blower switch” pickup modification

A while back I stumbled upon a really cool pickup switching idea while reading various Internet guitar forums. People were talking about the Suhr Guthrie Govan signature guitar and a really cool feature that it had. Suhr called it the “blower switch”, and it’s a switching system that allows you …