Benjamin Strange

New Orleans, LA

I am a bassist, guitar tech, and founder of Strange Guitarworks. When not working on guitars, I create experimental music under the moniker of UFO Death Cult, utilizing microtonal instruments of my own design. "Intonation is a social construct."

Most commented posts

  1. Behold, the Angry Inch! — 13 comments
  2. Fretless conversion — 12 comments
  3. Fretting a maple fretboard — 10 comments
  4. Bridge plate repair — 10 comments
  5. Installing a Roland GK 3 Pickup — 10 comments

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Nov 23 2012

Disassembling an Ibanez USATK neck.

Today I started work on an old Ibanez USATK, made for them by Bunker Guitars back in 1995. Bunker Guitars uses an ingenius neck design, which utilizes a single steel bar instead of a truss rod. This supports all of the tension of the strings, allowing the wood in the neck to resonate without being …

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