Stories about electric guitar history, famous instruments, gear evolution, and the hardware that holds it all together — told from Nectite’s workshop.
The first time we saw a direct-mounted humbucker, we didn’t know what we were looking at. It was the mid-90s, a guitar shop in Freiburg, and someone had brought in an Ibanez RG Prestige for a setup. The pickups just sat there in the body — no plastic rings, no chrome bezels, nothing between the […]
By The Guitar Storyteller We get more emails about bass pickup mounting than you’d expect. Not about tone. Not about winding specs or magnet types. The emails are always the same basic complaint: “My pickup sinks.” Or: “The screw just spins and nothing happens.” Or our personal favourite: “I turned it half a turn and
Leo Fender’s Foam, James Jamerson’s Thump, and the Tiny Screw That Won’t Stop Stripping Read More »
