Please enjoy this cover of the classic Chuck Rio tune, Tequila! I’ve been teaching myself to play saxophone for about the last 4 months. Here is is my debut recording. I couldn’t finger the guitar chords, so my pal Eric graciously provided the excellent guitar work. I laid down the drums, handclap, and a temporary [...]

I picked up this great Play Guitar with the Ventures “guitar phonics system” record album. I can’t wait to spend time with these lessons. So, dust off your Moserite and learn with the Ventures!. Click the charts to enlargify. Click the links above each chart set to hear the instructional play-alongs. Enjoy! Raunchy Raunchy rhythm [...]

Here are some pictures of a “box guitar” that I recently built. It’s sort of like a cigar box guitar, only rather than finding a pre-built box and scratch-building a neck for it, I bought a guitar neck, and scratch-built a box for it. I picked up a neck from a new, but broken Cort [...]

Here is a free Rock-n-Roll download for you. I recorded this cover of Link Wray’s 1959 song Comanche. Enjoy : Comanche Guitars, percussion, vocals: Steve Lodefink Vocals: Harlan Lodefink, Ivan Lodefink. UPDATE: A lot of people have asked me about my recording process for this song, mostly wondering if I used drum loops, and where [...]

I picked up this Personal Motivation 7″ about 15 years ago, thinking that I might someday do something with it. Recently, I have been figuring out how to play the guitar, and decided to put it to use. Well, here is rough draft of a song that I am recording. Guitars by me, drums by [...]

Here are some photos and build notes for a cigar box guitar that I built. I’ve wanted to do one of these ever since I read about CBG’s in Make Magazine several years ago. If you’ve never heard or seen CBG’s in action, you should treat yourself to a few of the videos on Cigar [...]

After about 3 weeks, I could no longer smell the lacquer, so I considered it dry and set about the task of making the guitar shiny. Wet Sanding To get the paint level and remove the slight orange peel texture that you will get with all but the most fortuitous rattle-can spray jobs, I wet [...]

I really had my heart set on adding an edge binding to my grizzly telecaster kit. The problem is that the guitar body comes supplied with the edges pre-sanded and rounded off to a 1/4″ radius. This curvature was too much to allow for installation of even the thickest edge binding that I could find, [...]

I had such a blast putting together the Grizzly Uke kit a few years back, that I thought I would try my hand at a guitar. Having always admired the iconic Fender Telecaster, i ordered myself the Tele’ kit from Grizzly for $129. If you hanker for a Telecaster kit, you are not limited to [...]