One of the things that can be frustrating with guitar maintenance is the output jack. When trying to tighten a loose nut it is so easy to spin the jack around, risking damage to the wires connected to your jack. And if they are broken, re-soldering them, and then trying …
Today I received in the mail a handy new tool for working on guitars. The Jacktight is designed to stabilize and hold the jack in place while tightening the retaining nut, avoiding the chance of damaging the wiring connected to the jack. It was invented by San Jose guitarist and …
My Ibanez RG470 is my old faithful, it’s the first guitar I ever bought myself, and my first decent guitar. I’ve had it since 1995, when I bought it brand new for around $800AUD. I’ve since upgraded it with an original Edge tremolo bridge and EMG pickups. It’s been through …
Following on from my “Taming the Tone Zone – continued” post, I have been conducting some more “invasive” modifications to the popular DiMarzio pickup. I decided to open up the Tone Zone and try some magnet modifications. Some people are probably questioning my reasons for doing so many modifications with …
In my previous post about taming the DiMarzio Tone Zone I talked about using a capacitor to reduce the low-end muddiness that is sometimes associated with the Tone Zone. I used a 0.047uF capacitor to filter out some of the low end, and it did so fairly well. The Ibanez …