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Volume 17 Issue 6 June 2012
58Vintage Vault
colUmnS
GIGGInG & REcoRdInG
48 Acoustic Soundboard
Of Tree Elves, Hide Glue, and Such
50 Ask Amp man
Recapping a Vintage Gibson
GA-79RTV Stereo Combo
52 mod Garage
Esquire Mods, Part 1
54 The bass bench
Passive Tone Controls
VIn TAGE & UpkEEp
56 bottom Feeder
Old Kraftsman Solo King
58 Vintage Vault
1955 Gibson J-200
60 Trash or Treasure
Martin Style A Mandolin
62 Restoring an original
Reviving a 1965 Gibson Firebird
on ThE coVER Off Guitar Design/J. Lak Soulsista Italian Diva, Billy Duffy
(photo by Dara Blumenhein)
lESSonS
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Fretboard Workshop
Marc Schonbrun
digging deeper
Julian Lage
beyond blues
Kid Andersen
Shred your Enthusiasm
Paul Gilbert
19Opening Notes
Photo courtesy Marshall Amplification
dEpARTmEnTS
opening notes
letters
news
Staff picks
PG editors and Joe Bonamassa talk about
the guitar lesson of their dreams.
30 media Reviews
Jack White’s Blunderbuss Plus: Neil
Young, Michael Landau, Anders
Osborne, and M. Ward
182 new products
184 modern builder Vault
Krusa Guitars
186 Guitar of the month
1959 Danelectro Doubleneck #3923
192 last call
Know How, Know When
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