Setting tailpiece height on Les Pauls

Setting tailpiece height on Les Pauls

setting tailpiece height on a gibson les paul If you have a guitar with a ‘tune-o-matic’ bridge, you may have wondered how high you should set the tailpiece. As always with these things, there is no ‘correct’ height. Instead, there are a bunch of considerations that...
Shielding your guitar

Shielding your guitar

shielding your guitar We’re surrounded by electrical interference. Guitar pickups act as little antenna that can pick up this interference. Guitars with single coil pickups are especially prone to this, making them noisier than we’d like. ‘Shielding’ is one way of...
Why we use a strobe tuner

Why we use a strobe tuner

sTROBE TUNERS At Selborne Guitars we use a Peterson StroboPlus HDC tuner. You’ve probably heard of ‘strobe’ tuners, but what are they and what makes them special? What is a strobe tuner? Most guitar players have a chromatic or polyphonic tuner. These tuners measure...
When To Change Guitar Strings

When To Change Guitar Strings

when to change guitar strings The right time to replace strings varies from player to player. Whether you play an acoustic or an electric guitar, arbitrary rules like ‘change strings after every 100 hours of play’ are rarely going to hit the spot. The best approach is...
Prolonging string life

Prolonging string life

5 tips for PROLONGING string life I think we can all agree that there’s nothing quite like that fresh, crisp sound and feel of a brand-new set of strings! There are steps you can take to prolong the life of your strings.  Unfortunately, when we play guitar our hands...
Tips on Removing Old Strings

Tips on Removing Old Strings

TIPS ON Removing old guitar strings Tip #1 To remove old strings detune them until they’re slack, hold them in one hand and cut them in half (at the 12th fret or thereabouts – it doesn’t matter exactly where) using string cutters. Don’t cut them while the strings are...