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Fender Jaguar bridge and "vibrato"

This story is about the wrongly accused bridge and the wrongly named tailpiece as used on the Fender Jaguar and Jazzmaster guitars. Over the years there's been volumes written about...

Fender Jaguar set up

Since I do so much work on offsets I've been trying to do some ongoing blogs about setting up and servicing both Jags and Jazzmasters. While I personally prefer Jazzmasters I used to...

Gibson Les Paul Classic

I'm a big fan of these Les Paul Classic series. They were released as a "kind of" re-issue and were actually great quality (in general) even though they weren't absolutely...

The Tym "Copter" guitar

  I got an email yesterday (actually a while ago now) from my friend Tone from Guitarnerd saying "someone has ripped off one of your guitars" and mentioned a forum that had...

Wraparound Bridge/Tailpiece

  This classic piece of hardware designed by Ted McCarty is still my all time favorite bridge if it's done right. The wraparound bridge/tailpiece from the '54/55 Gibson Les Paul...