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10 best ways to upgrade your guitar
2010 3 $6.30

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1961 Gibson ES-330 modification which also applies to other Gibson models
2007 3 $6.30

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A 1962 Gibson ES-330TD with block markers needs to have it's frets replaced and the electrics are in need of an overhaul
2006 3 $6.30

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A lifting bridge can be fixed
2006 3 $6.30

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A neglected Colombus bass from the mid-to-late 70s gets taken on and set up for peak performance
2006 3 $6.30

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Adding humbucker-like sounds to a Stratocaster using a push/push pot, yet leaving the exterior untouched
2000 1 $6.30

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Adjusting the bias on older Fender amps that have bias control and not just bias balance - not for beginners
2001 3 $6.30

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Amplifying your acoustic guitar - fitting an undersaddle transducer
2006 3 $6.30

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Blue Tube project - an improved version of 2004's sought-after Tube Bender kit, giving everything from a clean boost to crunch to seething valve-like overdrive.
2008 5 $6.30

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Build your own acoustic guitar from a Martin kit
2002 4 $6.30

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Build your own pedal part 1 - the TwoTimer which offers both vibrato and phaser. This is the first Guitar and Bass DIY stompbox to use an integrated circuit.
2007 5 $6.30

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Build your own valve amp: part 1
2001 5 $6.30

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Build your own valve amp: part 2
2001 5 $6.30

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Building a solid-body electric guitar from a kit
2002 4 $6.30

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Building a unique and great-sounding vintage-style compressor from a special kit
2005 6 $6.30

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Building your own electric guitar - part 1. Building a workshop
2004 4 $6.30

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Building your own electric guitar - part 2. The tools and timber you will need from a hardware store
2004 3 $6.30

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Building your own electric guitar - part 3. Planing the timber for the neck, body and fretboard and shaping the body and neck.
2004 3 $6.30

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Building your own electric guitar - part 4. Cutting the fret slots, installing the neck reinforcement and gluing the fretboard
2004 4 $6.30

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Building your own electric guitar - part 5. Digging out the cavities for the pickups, the controls and the neck pocket.
2004 4 $6.30

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Building your own electric guitar - part 6. Fretting and shaping the neck.
2005 4 $6.30

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Building your own electric guitar - part 7. A few things to do until the final finish.
2005 4 $6.30

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Building your own electric guitar - part 8. Polishing and final assembly
2005 4 $6.30

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Building your own electric guitar - part 9. Finishing touches - the frets and strings
2005 4 $6.30

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Building your own lap steel - no awkward truss rod installation, no tricky neck carving and you don't even need frets
2007 3 $6.30

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Building your own stompbox - an easy-to-make rangemaster booster
2002 4 $6.30

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Building your own stompbox - Fuzzmania pedal kit project
2004 6 $6.30

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Building your own stompbox - The Guitar Tube Bender, aimed at being a 808-like pedal
2003 5 $6.30

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Burns Vista-Sonic - sorting out the tuning problems
2006 4 $6.30

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Changing an old-school fender amp into a really coveted tone monster
2003 2 $6.30

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Converting an acoustic guitar for a left-handed guitarist
2007 3 $6.30

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DIY acoustic upgrade - Cort SFX fitted with a Fishman system
2005 4 $6.30

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Don't attempt to fix a headstock break on a valuable guitar, but if you have a cheapo beater that's been accidentally beheaded, you can save it from the scrapheap with a few tolls and some know-how. Demonstration on a Taylor and a Gibson.
2009 3 $6.30

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Electronics upgrade. Scratchy pots, intermittent output? When these won't clear up with a quick clean and check it's time to upgrade the electronic components on your guitar.
2009 4 $6.30

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Eric Clapton's Blackie sold for £500,000. A mongrel mid/late '50s Strat should be around £500. Here's how to make a great aged-look player for under £500.
2008 5 $6.30

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Ever wished you could just plug a pair of headphones into your guitar? With Dave Petersen's guidance and just £16, you can build a clever little box that will let you do exactly that
2008 3 $6.30

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Fender Jazzmasters can be kept in tune, they just need a little work done on them
2006 3 $6.30

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Find out how a humble sub-£100 guitar can be transformed into a semi-pro instrument
2006 4 $6.30

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Finding information on the Internet for building, repairing and modifying amps
2001 3 $6.30

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Fitting an internal microphone and connecting it and the transducer with an onboard preamp and EQ to an acoustic guitar
2006 3 $6.30

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Fixing fancy pearl inlays
2006 3 $6.30

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Following custom paint specialist Piers Dowell through a challenging assignment - spraying a guitar with a Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid theme
2008 3 $6.30

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Fret DIT workshop. Could you tackle fret replacement on a cheap guitar?
2009 3 $6.30

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Fretless bass - the lure of the slippery fingerboard has called many a bass player - but instead of buying a whole new instrument, you could convert a budget bass to fretless.
2010 3 $6.30

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Getting the best results when recording straight onto tape or hard disk
2005 2 $6.30

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Goa is home to a most unusual guitar making school
2007 3 $6.30

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Good setup for your tremolo
2006 4 $6.30

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Grafting an old silverface Fender amp into the Normal channel of a Deluxe Reverb, providing a new voice option in a simple-to-build package
2001 3 $6.30

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Guitar-spraying special part 1- a 'metal panel' graphic on a plain wood electric guitar
2008 3 $6.30

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Have you ever owned an acoustic that played perfectly, with no buzzing, dead spots or rattles? At Charlie Chandler's Guitar Experience they claim they can deal with all that.
2009 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 1
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 10 - fretting the fingerboard, fitting the tuners and doing some final preparation before applying the final finish
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 11 - bridge-making and giving your guitar a really professional-looking finish
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 12 - polishing, final assembly and set up to the moment you've been waiting for
2007 5 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 2 - getting stuck into the template, the mould and jointing the top and the back
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 3 - reducing your top, back and sides to the correct thickness
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 4 - bending the sides, the timber will do exactly what you want using heat and water
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 5 - making your own neck and installing a truss rod
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 6 - adding the all-important little bits that add strength to the back and top, which will shape the eventual sound of your guitar
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 7 - sticking together all the parts and closing up the guitar's body
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 8 - getting the edge-binding installed both back and front and getting to grips with preparing the fretboard to receive the frets
2007 3 $6.30

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Home Luthier - building your own acoustic guitar part 9 - moving on to the neck join, fitting the fretboard and shaping the neck
2007 3 $6.30

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How successful is making your own electric guitar, using the Faker Fat Beaver kit as an example.
2002 2 $6.30

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How to get an old guitar back into the best possible condition
2004 4 $6.30

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How to make adjustments on the impermanent joins of bolt-on neck guitars
2001 4 $6.30

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How to make an A/B box to gain more flexibility from your amp
2005 3 $6.30

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How to make an overdrive and find out if pricey components make a difference to the sound.
2009 4 $6.30

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How to modify a vintage Tubescreamer pedal with the exception of true bypass switching
2005 3 $6.30

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How to repair a wooden acoustic neck break
2005 3 $6.30

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How to tackle a neck set on a single-cone resonator National guitar
2006 4 $6.30

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It took Rory Gallagher many years to turn his guitar into the world's most famously battered Stratocaster. Huw Price finds out the hard way whether it is possible to do it in a couple of weeks.
2008 4 $6.30

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Les Paul Relic workshop part 1
2009 3 $6.30

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Les Paul Relic workshop part 2.
2009 3 $6.30

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Les Paul Relic workshop part 3
2009 3 $6.30

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Microphone workshop - a £150 condenser microphone can be upgraded to a level equivalent to a £1000 mic.
2010 3 $6.30

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Open v. closed back design for speaker cabinets
2003 2 $6.30

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Part 1 - acquiring the parts for a simple 15w 1/12 'tweed' style all-valve combo
2001 4 $6.30

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Part 2 - wiring up a 15w 1/12 'tweed' all-valve combo
2001 4 $6.30

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Part 3 - completing the DIY 15w 1x12 'tweed' all-valve combo with cabinetry work
2001 2 $6.30

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Part one - everything you need to build an all-valve stereo microphone preamp and DI box for around £350
2003 2 $6.30

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Part two preamp workshop - putting together a valve-based recording preamp
2003 4 $6.30

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Pedal DIY workshop - old vintage pedals don't always need expert attention - with a bit of care and some know-how, you can fix them yourself.
2009 3 $6.30

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Pedal modification on an Electro Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress
2006 3 $6.30

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Pickup workshop - make your own
2004 4 $6.30

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Pimp your plank - how to get the best out of your bargain rock machine.
2008 2 $6.30

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Play live workshop - how to connect a proper pedalboard - part one
2006 3 $6.30

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Preamp workshop. How to turn the venerable and commonly-available Shure M67 four-channel mixer into a phat front end for your recording setup.
2009 3 $6.30

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Professional tools for guitar-making at home
2005 3 $6.30

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Rebuilding a 100-year-old Washburn acoustic
2004 4 $6.30

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Reconing workshop. If you have a nice old speaker with a blown or non-original cone, you need to read this guide to fixing it yourself.
2009 3 $6.30

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Repairing a broken headstock on a Gibson SG
2006 4 $6.30

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Repairing and restoring old nylon string guitars
2005 4 $6.30

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Restoring a German archtop from the 1950s - an unusual Horner
2005 4 $6.30

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Restoring an ageing harp guitar to playing condition
2005 5 $6.30

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Secondhand budget acoustic overhaul - how to get the best out of your 'new' old friend
2008 3 $6.30

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Setting the neck and refitting the dovetail joint on a Gibson J-45
2006 3 $6.30

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Signal splitting - some of the greatest guitar and bass sounds have been made with more than one amplifier. It is not as easy as using a simple Y cable - but with a little simple technical stuff, then you'll have the key to sounding much better.
2010 3 $6.30

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Slide conversion - the ability to add some slide is one of the most useful skills you can have, and having a guitar specially set up for the task will make things a lot easier. Here's how to do it.
2010 3 $6.30

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Speaker Cabinet part 1 - professional speaker cabinets can cost hundreds of pounds, but in this month's workshop our amp guru shows you how to build a brilliant 1x12" or 2x10" cab all by yourself.
2010 7 $6.30

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Speaker Cabinet part 2 - fishishing it off with this complete guide to covering and trimming.
2010 5 $6.30

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Speakers - the truth behind power handling, efficiency ratings, 'vintage tone' and more
2003 2 $6.30

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Stealth wiring: gone are the days of perfectly good guitars sprinkled amateurishly with mini-switches: now you can add great sounds, and no-one will ever spot the difference.
2008 3 $6.30

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Strat overhaul
2004 3 $6.30

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Strat workshop
2003 2 $6.30

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The basics of valve amplilfication, answering several frequently-asked questions
2001 3 $6.30

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The cool Danelectro parts guitar used on some of Led Zeppelin's finest moments gave us the inspiration for our simplest and most accessible guitar make-over yet.
2009 3 $6.30

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This special project box lets you power a couple of stompboxes from a pair of rechargeable AA batteries.
2009 3 $6.30

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Transforming a budget guitar. Is it possible to make the neck of a sub-£100 copy play and feel like a vintage original? Armed with spokeshave, sandpaper and nitro lacquer you can.
2010 3 $6.30

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Using a set of vintage tuning keys to repair a '67 Telecaster
2000 2 $6.30

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Vamp your Champ - how to convert your Champ to fabled Vibro Champ form and if you don't fancy that there are tips on speaker swapping… the best mod you can do.
2008 3 $6.30

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Vamp your Vox - modify and upgrade a Vox AC10
2007 4 $6.30

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Vintage strat workshop - some old vintage guitars still lurk unplayed in dark corners of people's houses
2007 3 $6.30

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Wah feature part 1 - how to fix and customise your wah pedal
2005 3 $6.30

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Wah feature part 2 - modify your wah into the perfect pedal
2005 3 $6.30

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What the tone control knobs on your guitar actually do, how to make them more useful and swapping capacitators
2000 2 $6.30

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While speaker swapping is gaining popularity, new drivers need to be broken in correctly to get the best out of them
2001 1 $6.30

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Why do some people still cling to the past with their analogue tape? Do they know something we don't?
2003 3 $6.30

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Workshop guide on getting the best out of your Bigsby vibratos
2001 4 $6.30