

It didn’t take long for the established, known-name manufacturers to hone in on the entry level thing. Some were good and launched many a guitar career, some were just plain bad and discouraged many a would-be player, and some were just too grotesque to be taken seriously by the guitar public. Others - neophytes, and the less heeled - perused mail-order catalogs, or haunted the music stores or department stores of their hometowns, scooping up cool bargain guitars by such names as Kay, Harmony, Teisco, Eko, Guyatone, National, Supro, Airline, Silvertone, Danelectro and many others from here and abroad. Those who could afford the freight played the guitars of their heroes: Fender, Gibson, Guild, or Gretsch. Thus were born into the world many new species some very distinct from those of the past. The double big bang of the advent of the solid body guitar and the tumultuous storm of rock n’ roll’s arrival in the world of young humans kicked the demand for, and the production of, this new genus of guitar into hyperdrive.

Many years passed before the winds of change began to blow. In the Beginning Homo Sapiens created the electric guitar by placing a coil-wound electromagnet in proximity to the strings of an acoustic guitar and running the signal to an amplifying device. Photos would be great of the front and back of the headstock.Attention class, the subject of today’s lecture is the “Map” guitar manufactured by Eastwood Guitars.

But there isn't a lot of play between the low E peg and nut anyway so this doesn't sound like a big issue, and you said the setup is good.īut still, the tuner peg shouldn't really be out of position like that so it makes me wonder why it's there. So this is the playability issue this would cause - as you bend the string it must move in the nut slot, and if there is too much friction there it can stick. I have a Les Paul and the 3rd and 4th string do sometimes stick in the nut slot a little if I don't lube it up. It depends how far off it is, but some guitars do have a sideways break angle. Wrapping it the other way should make it further off, I would think. In every picture of a JM I can find online, the strings appear to go straight through the nut slot, but it sounds like the tuner is a little closer to the A than it should be. It should be wrapped so the string is on the 'down' (high E) side of the tuner.
