Benjamin Strange, Author at Strange Guitarworks

Benjamin Strange

Author's details

Date registered: 7 September, 2012
URL: http://www.ufodeathcult.com

Biography

I am a bassist, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, lyricist, producer, programmer, artist, and guitar tech based in New Orleans, Louisiana. By day, I repair, modify and build guitars; and by night, I play bass for a wide variety of artists on stage and in the studio. During my spare time I write and produce experimental microtonal music under the name of UFO Death Cult, which I release on my own record label, Analyzer Records. Sometimes I also find time to eat and sleep.

Latest posts

Mr. Fred’s weird banjo thing — 17 April, 2017
Elvis meets Nixon — 7 March, 2017
Benjamin’s Fender Hello Kitty microtonal Strat of Doom™ — 28 January, 2017
Now open on Fridays! — 3 January, 2017
2016 year in review — 23 December, 2016

Author's posts listings

Apr 17 2017

Mr. Fred’s weird banjo thing

by Benjamin Strange

17 April, 2017

Our friend, Mr. PH Fred, always has the oddest guitars, and the oddest requests for modifications of those guitars. Last time, he had us turn an acoustic guitar into a Stratocaster (check it out here: Elvis Meets Nixon). This time, he made what seemed like a pretty easy request, to install a Lollar Charlie Christian …

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Mar 07 2017

Elvis meets Nixon

by Benjamin Strange

7 March, 2017

The most requested document from the National Archives isn’t the Bill of Rights, nor even the Constitution – it’s this photo: Elvis meets Nixon. Yeah, it really happened. A bizarre moment in American history, to be sure – and one that inspired a madcap project here in our shop. Some background: one of our regular …

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Jan 28 2017

Benjamin’s Fender Hello Kitty microtonal Strat of Doom™

by Benjamin Strange

28 January, 2017

I have an oft-repeated mantra at the shop: “Intonation is a social construct”. Over the last several hundred years, western music has largely standardized into an equal tempered system, dividing the octave into twelve notes with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2 (12√2 = 2 1⁄12 ≈ 1.059463)(12 tone equal temperament is also known as …

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Jan 03 2017

Now open on Fridays!

by Benjamin Strange

3 January, 2017

By popular demand, we are now open on Fridays! We’ll be here Monday through Friday, 12-6, making the world a better place, one guitar at a time. Come on down and say hello!

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Dec 23 2016

2016 year in review

by Benjamin Strange

23 December, 2016

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No doubt many of us will be glad to put 2016 behind us. This has been a wild year for our world, our nation, our city, and even our tiny little space at Strange Guitarworks. While we know 2016 has been full of negativity and loss outside of the shop’s walls, inside we have striven to …

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Oct 24 2016

Making an acoustic bridge for a vintage Martin

by Benjamin Strange

24 October, 2016

Building a great acoustic guitar is tricky business. One has to find the perfect balance between two opposing ideas: build a guitar that sounds good, or build a guitar that lasts. If the guitar is too solidly built, it won’t have any resonance and will sound terrible; if the guitar is too flimsy, it will collapse …

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Aug 10 2016

Strange Guitarworks welcomes Dunlop Strings!

by Benjamin Strange

10 August, 2016

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We are proud to announce that we are now an official dealer for Jim Dunlop strings! We restring a LOT of guitars, and we’ve found Dunlop strings to be among our favorites. They’re built really well, are extremely consistent, are generously long (handy for long scale & hollow body instruments), made in America, and the …

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Jul 30 2016

Rebuilding a vintage Gibson acoustic guitar

by Benjamin Strange

30 July, 2016

We have the greatest job in the world: we play with guitars all day, and oftentimes get our grubby mitts on vintage instruments that we wouldn’t ever get to see as mere mortals. Occasionally we see vintage gear that looks almost brand new, but most times when an older instrument comes into our shop it …

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Jun 17 2016

Fixing a broken headstock for The Revivalists

by Benjamin Strange

17 June, 2016

We do a lot of work for The Revivalists. Three of their seven members play electric, acoustic, and/or bass guitars, and as they seem to play them pretty hard and tour a LOT, the band keeps us pretty busy. This week Zach brought his old Guild hollowbody in, which had it’s headstock broken and then …

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Mar 28 2016

How to relic a guitar in one easy step!

by Benjamin Strange

28 March, 2016

Have you ever wondered how to relic a guitar? Well, wonder no more – we can teach you how to relic a guitar in one easy step, with no tools nor experience necessary! Here’s the secret no other guitar tech is willing to tell you: in order to give your guitar that amazing, broken in …

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