The original Gearpedia was a labor of love for myself and a few close internet friends. There was no other guitar source like it on the internet. It was a good run of a several years tracking each and every piece of guitar related gear known to man. Unfortunately towards the last year of the sites life we were plagued by constant malware planted from vulnerabilities of the host server as well as inherent security flaws of the early versions of the sites software itself. For months I tried to clean up the database and files with little success. It was time consuming and frustrating. Finally in the late summer of 2010 I decided to pull the plug on the site. I did retain copies of the files and database though. Just in case .

While It was sad to see all that work come to an end I also saw it as an opportunity to start fresh and to build on the strengths of the original Gearpedia and leave out what didn’t work.

Gearpedia version two will be smaller and more focused. The only guitar stuff that will be discussed here is stuff we own, have owned or plan to own. Gearpedia will no longer be an encyclopedia of every piece of guitar gear ever made. We are going to take an approach here I have not seen anywhere else but you are going to have to wait and see what that approach is.

Drew

Jackson Shattered Glass