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Blog/Author: JD Sleep

General Guitar Gadgets – Who We Are – Part 2

Editor’s note, October 2026: the dates in this post were written from memory in 2015 and have been corrected against the site’s own records. The site went up in 1998, and ready-to-solder PCB sales began in January 2002.General Guitar Gadgets started as a...

General Guitar Gadgets – Who We Are – Part 1

In an effort to let you know more about our business practices, this blog is about our business philosophy.We strive to provide the high level of quality products and service that we ourselves would wish to receive when we buy online from other companies. We want to...

New Kit and transistor set

We have a couple of new compressor kits.  They are based on the Ibanez™ BP10™ Bass Compressor and CP10™ Compressor.  These are really great compressors that were somewhat over-shadowed by the bad reputation and unpopularity that the short lived “10 Series”...

DIY Stompbox Work Bench – Desolder Tools

In this installment of tool discussion, we will talk about desoldering.  In my opinion, it’s one of the most difficult aspects of building guitar effects.  If you are perfect, you may never need to desolder any parts and that’s great, but…...

DIY Stompbox Work Bench – Hand Tools

We are starting a series of blogs that will give some insight and opinions on the tools we use to create DIY guitar effects here at General Guitar Gadgets. This will take several installments, but it will be informative and interesting. Hopefully other builders will...