Reviving the “Marshall Stack”

Several years ago, I bought some speaker cabinets (cheap) from the bass player in the band I was playing guitar for at the time.  It was a Fender Bassman cab from the mid 60’s and a couple of those single 10 inch Marshall speaker cabs that make the little mini...

Groovy Enclosures!

Some of you who have been involved in do-it-yourself guitar effects for more than a decade will probably remember the days when all 125B enclosures had grooves all around the inside of the enclosures.  This was probably 10 to 15 years ago.  The word was that the...

We Got ToneBenders!

Many regular browser of our site might not realize all of the many the Tone Bender variations we have on the site.   We have a plethora of Tone Bender variations, some of which are shown in the photo above.  They vary greatly in sound and tone, but they all have...

General Guitar Gadgets – Who We Are – Part 2

General Guitar Gadgets started as a small website in the year 2000. We went under the name “Guitar Effects Projects” when we started. After some careful thought we felt that the name was a bit generic so we changed it a few years later to General Guitar...

General Guitar Gadgets – Who We Are – Part 1

In an effort to let you know more about our business practices, this blog is about our business philosophy.We strive to provide the high level of quality products and service that we ourselves would wish to receive when we buy online from other companies. We want to...

DIY Stompbox Work Bench – Desolder Tools

In this installment of tool discussion, we will talk about desoldering.  In my opinion, it’s one of the most difficult aspects of building guitar effects.  If you are perfect, you may never need to desolder any parts and that’s great, but…...