And secondly, the bridge must be the right distance from the neck, in order for the guitar to be tunable. Specifically, the 12th fret should be exactly in the middle of the string. This is something called guitar intonation and luckily the Telecaster bridge has a fairly wide adjustment ...
The Volume Pot bleeds guitar signal to ground to lower the guitar's output volume. I've been asked many times, "What is voltage?" It's pretty simple really. Like electrical charges repel the same way like magnetic poles repel. So if you cram a bunch of negatively charged electrons ...
So it was pretty tough to choose a costume — I wasn’t allowed to wear any green stuff, it’s got to be really solid and tight because while shooting I was surrounded by a green background. It’s all imagination. It was a really interesting experience, and I felt the future. I th...
“And so the hard bit was getting that album to feel like it was just deep and profound and coming from somewhere. It was the idea of trying to find that common ground, and so it felt like a collaborative album, because I was having to kind of reach further in the direction of these...
I removed the reissue bridge pickup and prepared to install the original ’72 in its place. The first problem I ran into was a huge glob of solder on the volume pot. In order to attach the ground and secondary lead wires from the pickup to the volume pot, this glob had to be remov...