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Attempting a Salvation Army Guitar Rescue

Tags: Guitar Maintenance You know, just because a guitar was purchased at a pawn shop, Goodwill Center, or in this case, the Salvation Army, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not capable of producing halfway decent music.  Especially, once you give it a little bit of love in the form of giving it a good cleaning, polishing,…

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Does it matter which country your guitar was made in?

Tags: Guitar Maintenance Bottom line… Of course not!… The first guitar I ever really learned to play on was a Fender Squire, made in Japan.  I loved it, but for some incredibly “less-than-intelligent” reason, I got rid of it.  I used it and another guitar as a trade-in for (what I thought) was a better guitar….

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How Often Should You Change Your Guitar Strings?

Tags: Guitar Maintenance Of course, there’s no “set-in-stone” time period for changing out one’s guitar strings; however, there are a few decent rules we can follow to ensure our guitars are always ready to go. Then again, if you’ve played guitar long enough, then you know as well as I do that putting on a…

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