Versatile Telecaster Controls

By Sid of Stone Marmot
My Telecaster is a 1990 American Standard that originally had the TBX tone control. A lot of people don’t like this tone control. I myself never really minded it since I rarely use my tone controls on my guitars. But, on examining the way the TBX control itself works, [...]

Restaurants Don’t Want Single Customers

By Cindy of Stone Marmot
Restaurants appear to only want couples as customers. They really don’t seem to be interested in attracting single people as customers. I’m basing this conclusion on the fact that most coupons issued by restaurants are buy one, get a second meal free or half off. Rarely do they [...]

Cheap Speaker Grill Cloth

By Sid of Stone Marmot
Those of us who build or refurbish guitar amps and speaker cabinets often have a hard time finding speaker grill cloth. What we do find is rather expensive and usually has to be mail ordered. For example, the cheapest grill cloth Antique Electronics Supply sells is $19.95 a yard [...]

Celestion G12L-35 – An Underrated Speaker

by Sid of Stone Marmot
The Celestion G12L-35 is a 12 inch guitar speaker Celestion made from the early 1980’s to about 2000. Information on this speaker is hard to find, but from what I have found it was intended and used mostly for the Marshall 8412 guitar speaker cabinet. This closed back cabinet [...]

Another Disaster Concern – Identity Theft

By Cindy of Stone Marmot
We see in the news all these recent disasters due to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, etc. Many images appear of houses that are totally destroyed and their contents scattered all over. Among these contents are probably a lot of important papers and records. This leads to the possibility [...]