Links and Miscellania

Normal guitar strings (Low E, A, D, G) are wound with bronze. However, there are occasionally on the market, gold wound strings. Not pure gold, but gold alloy. Pure gold is too soft, and way too expensive. Gold alloy does the trick. Gold wound strings offer benefits over bronze. First is that they bring a fuller, richer sound to the lower strings. You'll notice it immediately. It's pronounced and beautiful. It improves the sound of an acoustic guitar, and any guitarist would want that. Second, they're impervious to the corrosive action of the oils, dirt, and acids present on the guitarist's fingertips, which react with the bronze, causing them to corrode. By avoiding this corrosion, gold strings stay fresher and continue to deliver a rich sound for a much longer time. The fingers don't have that disgusting bronze stench after a session. And your fingertips won't turn black. As I glance over at my Takamine F312S, I'm reminded that the gold

The technique for lighting cigars is different from cigarettes due to the difference from in diameter between the two distinctly different types of smokes, and the burning properties of their wrappers. The wrapper for a cigarette is bone dry paper. It burns immediately. The wrapper for a cigar is a tobacco leaf, that hopefully, isn't too dry. The diameter of cigars are larger than cigarettes, and although some cigars are very thin, the genuine cigars aren't. The diameter of a cigar, or ring size, is larger that the flame of your match. Cigars can be improperly lit, meaning usually, that some portion of the end of the cigar lights, and burns, while other portions are yet to be lit. This leads to a malformed coal, affecting the flavor, and could lead to runs or tunneling. You don't want that on a smoke that cost you from 3 to 15 dollars. God knows how poor a showing it is to light a perfectly good cigar in front of your friends, or at the smoke shop, and mes

Clean your sharpening stone. Sharpening stone clogged up, black with grinding dust and grime? Melt the blackness away with ordinary waterless hand sanitizer, sold in almost any supermarket, and a paper towel to de-clog your stone. This revives your stone with little effort, and is also effective for your ceramic rods.