What this site is for
Gear Warrior asks a company-level question: who makes an instrument, who sells it, and who runs the trade shows and standards bodies behind it. It is pre-launch, and today it publishes exactly the ten pages you can see in the nav — no vendor, retailer, or organization records yet.
The sister sites already teach the instruments and the theory this site's eventual gear will be bought for. Here is who to visit for that.
The sisters, and why you might go there
String WarriorThe hub already owns the beginner side of buying: per-instrument anatomy at /gear/{instrument} and referral-free first-instrument guides — read there today for what this site does not have yet.
Theory WarriorA gauge, a scale length, and a tuning only make sense once you know what an interval and a key actually are — the reasoning this site does with no product attached to any of it.
Keys WarriorEvery keyboard this site will eventually stock a gig bag's worth of gear for has its full chord and scale reference here, action weight and voicing included.
Ukulele WarriorFour strings mean a different string-gauge chart than any six-string instrument uses — the reference this site will point to once its own string sets exist.
Bass WarriorLow strings are physically different products — thicker cores, different winding — and this is where the playing those strings are for actually gets taught.
Mandolin WarriorA mandolin's four courses are strung in pairs, which is a different shopping problem than a single-string instrument — the playing side of that difference lives here.
Guitar WarriorThe instrument this site's first buying guides will be written against most often — chords, scales, and the shapes a new set of strings or a new pickup actually changes.
Banjo WarriorA five-string banjo's short drone string is a setup detail no generic string chart captures — the playing context for it is taught here.
Fiddle WarriorNo frets means the instrument itself is a different purchase question — action, bridge, and setup decisions this site will eventually price, argued here from the playing side.
Ear WarriorA pedal's tone controls mean nothing until your ear can tell what they changed — the listening skill this site assumes a reader already has, or is building.
Bluegrass WarriorA band's gear list is really five separate shopping lists, one per seat — this site says which instrument plays what, which is the question to answer before buying for one.
Music Warrior NetworkGear is this site's subject, and every piece of it belongs to an instrument with a sister of its own; that site is the map — which sister covers which instrument or question, and whether it is open to readers yet.
Nashville WarriorA session player's gear choices track the chart they are handed, not a fixed part — the Number System notation that makes a rig portable across keys is written down here.
Mariachi WarriorTwo instruments this site will eventually stock — vihuela and guitarrón — exist nowhere outside this ensemble, and this is the only place their role in it is explained.
Jazz WarriorA jazz rig gets chosen for the voicings and substitutions a player actually reaches for — the vocabulary that turns a chord chart into a reason to buy one pedal over another.
Country WarriorA country band's gear is bought by chair — steel, dobro, rhythm guitar — and this site names what each chair's part actually requires before you shop for it.
Tres WarriorThe Cuban tres is a specific, less-common instrument this site will need its own vendor and setup records for; the playing it is built around is taught here first.
Sitar WarriorA sitar's sympathetic strings and movable frets are a setup problem no generic guitar guide answers — the playing context for that setup lives here.
Oud WarriorA fretless oud's action and string choice are argued entirely by feel — this site is where the playing that argument serves is actually taught.
Cuatro WarriorTwo unrelated instruments share the name "cuatro," which means two unrelated shopping lists — this site keeps them straight from the playing side.
Charango WarriorA charango is traditionally built from a specific soundbox and strung with a doubled high course — construction details this site will need vendor records for, taught here as playing first.
Cavaquinho WarriorA cavaquinho's four steel courses and small body are a distinct purchase from any six-string instrument's gear — the playing they are strung for is taught here.
How the network divides the work
Every satellite in the network owns one instrument family; the hub, String Warrior, covers all of them broadly and comparatively; the theory and ear-training sites cover the material underneath any instrument; the genre sites cover an ensemble or a repertoire. Gear Warrior's job is different from every one of them: it will cover the companies and the products, not the playing.
Sisters still being built are not in this list yet. Each joins the day it opens, on the same terms as the rest — one subject, one home, and a straight sentence here about why you would leave for it.