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Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I took ...

As a guitar tech, I see an awful lot of setup jobs that come in with tuning stability complaints, only to find the strings have been wound on badly or just plain wrong. In actual fact, it is easy to ...