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Other Guitars

Well, it's that time of year again, time to renew the web hosting. And for those of you that don't know, that has become a lot more expensive than it used to be. Fifty dollars a year is now several hundred. Not to mention the price of domain names has gone up ten-fold.

And I just found out that the nice folks at PayPal disabled all my Support buttons, and I never got a notice (although that may be my fault.) In any case, it is all working again now, so if you would like to make a small donation to help defray these costs, it would be greatly appreciated.

Instruments with non-standard tunings.

Audiovox Mandolin

Other Guitars

Audiovox Mandolin

This body is maple plywood over a hollow pine core, double-bound. It came out very lightweight, too light to balance even a guitar neck. This was originally going to be the 12-string, but I realized that it would never balance. So I shuffled parts and bodies between some other projects - a planned six-string got canceled and became the twelver. That left this body free. I thought about it a while and decided it would make a good mandolin.

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Guitar Projects

Audiovox Strat-style Guitar

Audiovox Gibson-style Guitar

Audiovox Mandolin

Audiovox 12-string Guitar

Danelectro Silvertone U-1 Guitar

Danelectro "Super-63" Guitar

Danelectro Silvertone 1457 Rescue Guitar

Danelectro Longhorn Guitar

Danelectro Companion Guitar

Fender Stratocaster 12-string Guitar

Rickenbacker 325 Guitar

Samick SG450 Guitar

Danelectro Pro-1 Guitar

Harmony H617 Bobkat

Danelectro Silvertone 1450 Guitar

Danelectro '67 Hornet Guitar

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October 12, 2021

Spellcheck in WordPress

October 12, 2021

It would be really great to be able to do spellchecking right inside WordPress. Specifically, it would be great to be able to check the entire site in one shot. That would require something working from inside, ie, a plugin.

I looked at a lot of spellchecking plugins, and I didn't find one that was acceptable. It's not that they don't actually work, but every one seems to cause non-fatal errors, and I don't want faulty code running on the site. But I could still use some sort of tool, as this website is cobbled together from a huge mass of forum posts that were not all written with the greatest care.

Finally, I tried a browser extension: Grammarly. Grammarly adds spell checking to any html input field. This adds spellchecking to the WordPress editor. The downside is that it only checks one page at a time, and that page has to be open in the editor. That's not that bad, you'd have to open the page to fix anything anyway.

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