Guitars
Fretboard Radius: 9.5 vs 12 Inch
Fretboard radius is the curve across your neck, and the 2.5 inches between Fender's 9.5 and Gibson's 12 decides how bends feel and how barre chords sit.
Guitars
Guitars covers instruments and everything in the signal path: body woods and construction, pickups, amplifiers, pedals, strings and cables, plus setup, intonation and repair. Advice distinguishes changes that alter tone from changes that only alter price. For players buying, maintaining or modifying an instrument.
Instruments and signal chain in detail: pickups, woods and construction, amp circuits, pedal order, string gauge, intonation, and repairs worth paying for.
Guitars
Spruce vs Cedar vs Mahogany Tonewoods
Spruce, cedar, and mahogany differ in stiffness, density, and the tone makers claim for each — and the spec sheet, not the folklore, is where to start.
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Parlor Guitars: History and Who They Suit
Parlor guitars keep the small-body, short-scale formula of the 1800s, and for fingerstyle players, couch pickers, and travelers it still out-punches its size.