With its peach finish, Spanish cedar construction, ziricote fretboard, and carefully selected hardware, the UMA Jetson 2 is an electric guitar designed to make a visual and technical statement. Some guitars are designed to blend into a familiar tradition. Others immediately invite a second look. The UMA Jetson 2, built
Pickups are what turn a guitar's string vibration into the electrical signal that reaches your amp — and the type of pickup a builder chooses has one of the biggest effects on an instrument's overall sound. In our earlier piece, Reading a Guitar Spec Sheet: What the
In our earlier piece, Reading a Guitar Spec Sheet: What the Terms Actually Mean, we walked through the core terms you'll find on a hand-built guitar's spec sheet — including the nut, the small component where the neck meets the headstock. We explained what it is.
If you've ever looked at a hand-built guitar's product description, you've probably run into a wall of terms that read like a different language. Body, neck, frets, scale, neck shape, nut — builders list these as a matter of course, but rarely explain what