Gorgomyte..real magic!

Posted By Hiroshi on June 11, 2010

Are your frets grungy and lacking the luster it had when your guitar was new?  Well fret no more (…lol) GHS Gorgomyte is here to help!

Gorgomyte made of real dragons.

Like it says on the package you cut small squares of the Gorgomyte and rub them on the frets and fingerboard.  The amazing sauce on the fabric removes the gunky buildup and leaves your frets clean and shiny, your fretboard free of grime and smelling lightly of vanilla.

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Encounters of the Scalloped kind

Posted By Hiroshi on February 23, 2010

My personal guitar’s fretboard

Hello readers!  I’m back to tell you about one of my favorite and slightly strange guitar features/modifications, also presenting to you the pro’s and con’s (in my opinion) of this subject.  This feature/modification is something that is called a scalloped fretboard.  What that means is that in between the frets on the bare wood that your finger tips would usually touch the wood is “scooped” out so that your finger makes little to no contact with the fretboard like the photo above ^.  Unusual, yes but only to the guitar.  Scalloped fretboards are not uncommon on ancient instruments like the sitar and the lute which predate the advent of the modern metal fret wire.

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