Boing Boing: The Fretboard Journal: debut issue

Monday, November 21, 2005

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.

"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."

This is the most exciting magazine I've seen since, well, Make. Link

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