Caution: To all pedalboards geeks, you might spend way too much time on the website: Pedalboard Planner!
Build Your Pedalboard With Pedalboard Planner. 
Vintage Pedal Prices 
Here is a list of a few vintage guitar pedals and their current values. Prices are based upon pedals in *excellent* condition.
Getting to know your guitar’s hardware 
If you are not already familiar with your guitar’s hardware then you should read this post.
Guitar Lovers Beware of United Airlines 
Be careful when traveling on any airline with your guitar. Read Dave Carrol's experience and watch the video of his song.
Top 10 electric guitar effects pedals, for Week 27, 2009. 
I was expecting to see mostly distortion pedals in a Top 10 pedals list, but that was not the case. Here are the Top 10 electric guitar effects pedals, for Week 27, 2009.
How to play fingerstyle blues guitar: part 2 
A tab and audio lesson on self-accompaniment
Strange Instrument #6: Should We Call It a Hybritar? 
This is one of the weirdest guitar-related instrument I ever saw...
Basic Guitar Chord Theory 
In this basic guitar chord lesson, you will learn to build a guitar chord two different ways:
Design your own guitar online with DesignMyGuitar 
DMG (DesignMyGuitar) is a new independent guitar brand of Belgian origin. It is unique in that it allows the guitar player to design their own guitar online.
Top 10 Selling Epiphone Electric Guitars, Week 37, 2009 
Here are the Top Ten Selling Epiphone Electric Guitars, Week 37, 2009. Change from Week 28 in brackets. Epiphone continues to do well with their Les Paul models, and the Wilshire model is a winner....
Most Expensive Electric Guitars 
Here are the Top 10 most expensive electric guitars, Week 33, 2009:
Stratocaster Controls - History 
Some electric guitar players are not aware that the Standard Stratocaster controls have changed over the years.
7 Deadly Sins of Rehearsing 
4. Planning to wing it -Unless you play out all the time, be sure to run your whole set list for the next gig from top to bottom, dress-rehearsal style. Don’t stop for anything.
Top Ten Ibanez Electric Guitars, Week 43, 2009 
Here are the Top 10 selling Ibanez electric guitars, for Week 43, 2009.
U2 Exclusive: The Edge's stage setup revealed 
Guitars, amps, FX - they're all here!
How To Adjust Your Guitar's Truss Rod 
How To Adjust Your Guitar's Truss Rod
Top 10 Selling Epiphone Electric Guitars Week 40, 2009 
Here are the Top Ten Selling Epiphone Electric Guitars, Week 40, 2009. Changes from Week 37 in brackets.
VESICA Design introduces the Vesica Lead electric guitar 
The Vesica Lead utilizes the patent pending VL Neck, the evolution of guitar design that allows the guitarist to bend the strings away from the centre of the neck in the critical upper register.
Fuzz Pedal Schematics 
Here are the schematics of some famous fuzz pedals:
Video Guitar Lesson w/tab - Bending Exercises From John McCarthy 
The following three riffs utilize different bending techniques in the context of a lead.
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