I love these!  I’ve been doing my part to support the Michigan state DOT. Every so often I get another one for my birthday, and drive it around for a while. I don’t know why any of these were not taken, but it seems the usual vanity plate crowd does not play much guitar.  I […]

Well, it’s christmas, 2019, and what should appear in my stocking? A nice new Sennheiser e609 microphone.  What better way to try it out than to make a recording with it on the 1966 Vibrolux , using the 1998 Stratocaster Deluxe?  This has been my main guitar for many years, I bought it new in […]

I’ve been buying tubes for a long time, and arguably I buy more tubes than most folks. In the last 10 years alone, I’ve documented several hundred tube amp repairs, many of them requiring tubes.  Over time, I’ve read a lot of opinions and evaluations on tube brands and sound.  In particular, the mysterious conversation […]

OK, so I only work on tube gear for hire. There are good reasons for that, but electronics is still my life and, for that matter, my liveleyhood.  I love building things, both solid state and tube-based, and even more so when that thing makes sound. One of the liabilities of my guitar pedalboard was […]

I have a customer, (or his friend, rather) who has sponsored the restoration of the guitar of his youth. I understand the owner’s health is not great, and his resources limited, so this is a laudable act of friendship.  As it turns out, the collectors rather enjoy this model, so I’ll post something about it […]

Sometimes you get a surprise, and sometimes, even when it’s bad, it works out.  A couple of years ago I bought some used JBL subs. We had been renting them for Rocket 8 gigs, once a month for several months, so at some point I decided it would make more sense to just buy them […]