Here is the saga of me getting started in the world of pickup winding. It is something that I have wanted to do for a while now and I finally got around to it. I started off by building my own winding machine, if you haven't read that article you can find it here: How to... Continue Reading →

Winding your own pickups is a great way to get more out of your electric guitar. However, buying all of the necessary equipment can become pretty expensive. However with a cheap sewing machine from a thrift store and some scrap wood we can build a pickup winding machine. The first that we need to do... Continue Reading →

Today I updated an old speaker end table to work as a Bluetooth speaker for our sunroom. My wife's grandma was getting rid of an old stereo end table so naturally I took it. It has a 1/4 inch audio jack on the back and a 12 inch speaker on the inside. I figured this... Continue Reading →

Here is my first attempt at building a cigar box guitar. My self imposed goal was to build it out of as garbage and reused items as possible. I started with a piece of oak that I picked from the garbage. It looked like it had been a piece of flooring or cabinet trim at... Continue Reading →

A while back I added an external speaker jack to my Marshall practice amp. The amp never sounded particularly amazing on it's own but I took a gamble on that being mostly because of the not so great 8 inch speaker inside. With a simple switch and 1/4 inch jack I added a speaker output... Continue Reading →

The goal of this project is to convert the AM section of this old Magnavox radio into a guitar input. Generally the radio signals are similar in level to guitar signals to allow you to tap into the signal and have a pretty decent guitar input. The process should work for any AM radio but... Continue Reading →

About a year, year and half ago my friend Gary, who is the drummer at my church asked if I wanted this amplifier. I guess one of his friends left it at his house years ago and didn’t want it back, so he asked me if I wanted it. Thanks Gary for the amp! When... Continue Reading →

Lets replace a 2-prong power cord on an old tube amp, with a 3-prong cord. Now we need to pause right here and I just need to say that there are some dangers in working with tube amps. So if you don’t know what you are doing I recommend that you don’t poke around inside... Continue Reading →

If you like to build various electronic projects an easy way to get a great looking panel for holding knobs and switches is to use a piece of brushed aluminum. The first thing that you want to do is pick up an 1/8th inch thick piece of aluminum, there are some common sizes of flat... Continue Reading →

Problem: I want to connect one pair of speakers to 2 separate amplifiers. Solution: Build a Switch box! Materials Used: 4PDT Switch, Aluminum Faceplate, Speaker Terminal Connectors So I am going to build a switch so that I can hook up 2 amplifiers to one set of speakers. Now what I need for this is a 4 pole... Continue Reading →