The Fretboard Journal: debut issue
I just received issue no. 1 of The Fretboard Journal, "A magazine for musical instrument players, collectors, and builders." It's lavishly produced with full color photos throughout, and as publisher Jason Verlinde writes in the introduction, it's a magazine about stories, not gear reviews or tabulatures.
This issue has a great article about A guy named Jason Lollar, who is the undisputed master of rewinding electric pickups.
This is the most exciting magazine I've seen since, well, Make. Link"I came back up to Issaquah, [Wash.] and I started a company where we were making jewelry boxes and gun cases with a friend of mine in my mom's basement," Lollar says." I always wanted to have my own business and I tried and I failed and I tried and I failed. We were stoned on acid one day and said, 'Let's make a pickup winder!' And we made one out of Legos! We made it so it would feed the wire back and forth."

"I came back up to Issaquah, [Wash.] and I started a company where we were making jewelry boxes and gun cases with a friend of mine in my mom's basement," Lollar says." I always wanted to have my own business and I tried and I failed and I tried and I failed. We were stoned on acid one day and said, 'Let's make a pickup winder!' And we made one out of Legos! We made it so it would feed the wire back and forth."

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