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All ideas to make headless guitar tuners if you are…
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Pickups, pickups, pickups! Skeesix CBG pickups, magnetic, piezo, magnets, wire, bobbins, winding, winders, installation, single coils, humbuckers,…
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Every cigar box guitar builder eventually makes their own…
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