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Types of guitar

Acoustic (Steel String)

Acoustic (Nylon String)

Electric (Solid Body)

Electric (Semi-acoustic, Thinline)

Electric (Hollow Body, Archtop)

Resonator

Tonewoods

The wood a guitar is made of makes a difference to the sound? Age of woods?

Acoustic Tonewoods

Fronts - Spruce - Sitka Spruce - Yellow Cedar - Western Red Cedar

Bodys - Rosewood (Brazillian export restrictions, Indian) - Mahogony - Rock Maple - Blackwood - Koa

Electric Tonewoods

- Ash - Rock Maple - Mahogony -

Quilting

Neck Fingerboards

Ebony - Rosewood - Maple

Links

http://www.guitartonewoods4luthiers.co.uk

http://www.touchstonetonewoods.co.uk

Acoustic Pick-up Systems

Piezo vs Mic systems

Feedback busters

Electric Guitar Pickups

How pickups work (basic)

Basic configurations

Single Coil

Humbucker

Active vs Passive

Out Of Phase Pickups

Hardware

Tuners - locking. quality brands.

Locking Tremelo Systems - pros and cons

Floating Bridges

Pickup switches - strat 5 way, gibson, jaguar, misc.

Guitar Strings

General chat bout thicknesses etc..

Acoustic Guitar Strings

- Bronze

- Phosphor Bronze

- Coated (Long Life)

Electric Guitar Strings

- Nickel

- Flat wounds

- Coated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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