Posts tagged 'music'

• Soviet Mandolin Review

  posted on 9 January, 2025 in music

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  My Soviet mandolin after a bit of TLC.

  

  Over Christmas, I was browsing eBay for mandolins and came across this beauty and my better senses did not prevail–so I bought it for €45. It’s a flat-top mandolin that was made in Leningrad in the mid 1980s.

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• Stratocaster Body Swap

  posted on 20 September, 2024 in music

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  The new Alder body with all of the gear attached.

  

  After a year’s hiatus from playing electric guitar (I usually play fingerstyle pieces on my acoustic nowadays), I had rediscovered my baby blue Tanglewood Stratocaster, which was my first guitar. I had already modded it to the stage where not much of the original guitar remained. The bridge was replaced by a MiM Fender one, the tuners are now retro-style Washburn tuners, and similarly the pickups have also been long since replaced by some nice “Warman” pickups made by a bloke in Wales.

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