Stringjoy Guitar Blog
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On the stringjoy guitar blog, we write about guitar history, guitar gear, music theory, and yes, occasionally strings.
Carving Their Own Paths: 5 Guitar Builders You Need to Know
January 19, 2025
A profile of five builders who have carved out a niche by crafting guitars that are modern classics.
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Buffers: The Humble Heroes of Electric Guitar
January 12, 2025
Tucked away in your signal chain is an often overlooked hero: the buffer. These tiny circuits preserve your tone and help you sound like you. But how?
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The Ibanez Iceman: the Coolest Axe Around
December 12, 2024
What's ice-cold AND melts faces? Let's take a look at the Ibanez Iceman, possibly the coolest guitar ever.
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Fire and Ice: The Guitar Gear of Johnny Winter
December 5, 2024
Johnny Winter was a stone-cold blues shredder. Let's take a look at the signature gear that helped him bring the heat.
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The Top 10 Best-Selling Strings from 10 Years of Stringjoy
November 19, 2024
It's been 10 years of good times, awesome tone, and a LOTTA strings. These are the Top 10 Best Sellers from the first 10 years of Stringjoy.
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The Top 10 Articles from 10 Years of the Stringjoy Blog
November 17, 2024
We wouldn't be obsessed with making the best strings in the world if we weren't obsessed with guitar gear and history. As we celebrate 10 years of Stringjoy, let's take a look at the top 10 most popular articles from the Stringjoy blog.
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James Burton's Custom Guitar Strings
November 1, 2024
James Burton played with legends, brought chicken pickin' mainstream, and was cobbling custom sets of guitar strings together waaaay before it was cool.
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What's the Deal with Doom Metal?
October 26, 2024
Let's journey through the slow, sludgy sounds of doom metal — the genre where darkness truly becomes music.
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All About Octave Pedals
October 17, 2024
Let's look at the octave pedal, a stalwart effect that has transformed the tone of legendary guitarists.
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The History of Electro-Harmonix
October 10, 2024
Let's take a look at the ways in which Electro-Harmonix expanded the guitar's tonal palette.
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What is the Vox Sound?
September 13, 2024
What makes the amplifier that defined the British Invasion so special, anyway?
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The Guitars of Jimi Hendrix
September 5, 2024
Despite his icon-status, Jimi was just like us: a gear nerd. Let's take a close look at the guitars of Jimi Hendrix.
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The History of Les Paul Pickups
August 16, 2024
Let's look beyond PAFs and explore the full spectrum of Les Paul pickups that players have to choose from.
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Taking Flight: History of the Firebird Pickup
July 15, 2024
A close look at the Firebird pickup, a simultaneously iconic and unappreciated fixture in the history of rock and roll.
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Birth of the Divebomb: The History of the Floyd Rose Tremolo
July 9, 2024
We look at the history of the Floyd Rose tremolo, arguably one of the most important inventions in the history of guitar.
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The History of Gretsch Guitars
June 27, 2024
How Gretsch went from a small shop to a world-wide brand associated with some of the best guitarists in history.
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