While looking to feed my new addiction with information at Borders yesterday, I stumbled across "The Complete Guitar Player" by Russ Shipton. It's a 3...

Fair enough, I'll keep it away from my guitar in the future.

WD-40 is the likely aggravator here. it is primarily a solvent and probably dissolved more of the film, if not some of the pick guard, making the situ...

Yeah, I just started in on those lessons the other day as well. I'm pretty impressed with them, but yes it would be nice to see more content getting d...

I played a little back in college, but it didn't make sense to me the same way piano did, so I didn't really pursue it for that long. I gave my guitar...

There was definitely some sort of residue, but the areas that had other stickers over top didn't have it (like where the made in America flag was). I ...

Scrybe,Wow! Thanks for the detailed and well reasoned response.I pretty much came to the same conclusion that I'd want a practice amp and got a Line 6...

Just an update- I picked up a Line 6 amp and some headphones for the time being. I'll probably just go with a basic interface or cable for the Mac. I ...

What kind of price range are you capable/willing to spend? Without an idea of that, it'd be really difficult to advise you one way or the other. If e....

Hi Dave. Hope the motorcycle wreck didn't mess you up too bad?Well, Strats are safer, unless your wife takes a disliking to them, and I'm sure that s...

Thanks, guys! I'm looking forward to the journey and I won't hesitate to ask the sages here for help or avail myself of the educational resources.