How do you handle humidity and temp changes? I put new strings on and got them to stay in tune. Got a call for outside jam. Played until midnight with big temperature and humidity changes. Point is myself and friends had to keep tuning guitar all night when a normal string change for me keeps in tune for along time. Gibson Les Paul studio. How do you manage or does this just come with the territory?

So, I know I posted a while ago about issues with my IYV headless being tuned and staying in tune once restring. The issue was the locking mechanism was crap and the bridge wasn’t great either. Well, about $45 dollars later I have a new locking mechanism and bridge and it is staying in tune and pretty fun to play. Total spent on project $165. $120 for the guitar, $35 the bridge, and $10 the nut.

This piece was cobbled together a couple of years ago to test the Accutronics reverb brick. It helped me learn about the operational range of the brick and to refine the design and schematics of a successor unit that will have a stereo output. It will also have a simple compressor/expander circuit in the wet signal path to compensate for a less than ideal dynamic range in the brick. It’s another project on a seemingly endless list. Like George Burns said: “I can’t die, I’m booked.”

From my show at Booked and Unplugged last month

I hope this doesn’t count as self promotion, but I wanted to share what I recently finished learning.