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Saga Guitar Kit, The Neck

Aug 10th, 2009 | By Project-D | Category: Featured Guitar

Ok, in an earlier post we got the guitar body ready to fit all the components. Because I decided to highly customize my guitar, I had to do some work that you wouldn’t have to do when you build your own guitar. What we’re going to take a look at today is working [...]



Saga Guitar Kit - The Guitar Tuners

Aug 7th, 2009 | By Project-D | Category: Guitar Links

Ok, if you remember I got some new gold tuners for this kit.  They looked really good, and they were a good price.  The only problem was, they were too big.  Meaning the tuning posts were too thick to fit through the holes that were drilled.  It seems like and easy fix, just go ahead [...]



Guitar Effects Pedals | Distortion

Aug 6th, 2009 | By Project-D | Category: Featured Guitar

If you’re an electric guitar player no doubt you’ve looked at finding some guitar effects.  You’ve got a couple of choices, use virtual effects that run on a computer, use a multi effects box or use some guitar effects pedals.  You can find guitar multi effects pedals or single effects pedals.  Whichever one you use [...]



Guitar Effects Pedals

Aug 5th, 2009 | By Project-D | Category: Featured Guitar

Acoustic guitarists are lucky.  Why? They don’t seem to suffer from gear envy like electric guitarists do.  The point is probably moot though because most guitarists have both an electric and acoustic guitar.  If you have an electric guitar it’s more than likely you have some sort of outboard effects.  By that, I mean effects [...]



Building the Saga Guitar Kit, Getting Started.

Jul 2nd, 2009 | By Project-D | Category: Featured Guitar, Uncategorized

Ok, the first thing I did was do a rough fit of all the guitar kit parts.  I figured I would cut the headstock out and get the body components fitted.  Turns out that the Guitarfetish (GF from now on) pick guard didn’t have the holes drilled in the same place as the body so [...]