How To Setup Your Guitar Like A Pro: An Easy Guide for Beginners
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“Everything you need to start confidently working on your own guitars is right here.” Recently updated to include over 260 photos covering all the aspects of a pro-level guitar setup, such as cleaning & maintenance, neck adjustments, string height adjustments (bridge saddle and nut), pickup height adjustments, intonation, and more. Learn how to dial in the perfect setup, step-by-step, on any guitar- with precision and measurability! Use the included cut-out tool templates to broaden your skills. Makes an excellent starter book or reference for budding professionals. ***Now updated and expanded with additional content including a section on restringing, neck shimming, scale length determination and new images! *** Included in the book: An 8-step method for electric, acoustic & bass guitar setups How to adjust neck relief (bow) for optimum playability How to adjust string height for your playing style and guitar type How to file nut slots, adjust pickup height and set the intonation accurately How to adjust Fender-style tremolo's, Gibson hard-tails, Floyd Rose and other floating bridge types How to adjust the saddle on your acoustic steel string or nylon string guitar Manufacturer's setup specs from Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, Jackson, Gretsch and others Exclusive setup specifications from the author's best playing guitars & basses Cut-out templates for radius gauges, under-string radius gauges & an action ruler A handy measurement conversion chart & more! From your friends at learn-guitarsetups.com and the Guitar Setup Pro App. What to expect: If you play electric guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, or even play bass guitar, you can learn guitar set up and maintenance for yourself with this top-selling guitar repair book. After years of successful workshops and group guitar setup classes, led by the Canadian guitar tech & educator Jonny Blackwood, this guitar setup guide has been tweaked and refined to simplistic perfection, in keeping true to the testament that less sometimes is more. After all, there are some excellent in-depth guitar repair luthier books on the market, but that’s not what you’re after when you just want to lower the string height, adjust the truss rod, and/or set the intonation. This book is written for beginners as an introduction to guitar setup and maintenance, for those who cannot attend our guitar setup classes in person, and for those who want to understand their instrument inside and out. You will learn the methods of true pro guitar setups and the specifications used on numerous styles of guitars. The highlights in this book are simplicity, clear instruction, lots of photographs and lots of examples/ specifications to try on different kinds of guitars. Use this book to gain an edge and develop your skills with a great foundation. Use it for: General guitar maintenance Electric guitar setups Acoustic guitar setups Classical guitar setups Bass guitar setups These are some examples of the guitar setup tools you will require to do the procedures outlined in the book: guitar capo guitar tuner guitar setup gauge guitar setup ruler guitar setup straight edge (optional) guitar setup tool kit (optional) guitar setup mat (optional) under-string radius gauges (optional) *** READ OUR EDITORIAL REVIEWS BELOW ***
| Dimensions | 8.5 x 0.3 x 11 inches |
| Edition | Illustrated |
| Isbn 10 | 0991854144 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-0991854141 |
| Item Weight | 11.4 ounces |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 130 pages |
| Publication Date | March 12, 2013 |
| Publisher | J.Haven Ventures |
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Great and informative book
I found this book to be a great, informative and easy read. Great job jonny Blackwood on the writing of this.
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Concise and complete for a beginner.
I think the sign of an expert teacher is someone that can take all their knowledge and concisely explain the most important parts in an organized way. That’s what I look for any time I’m allowing money to leave my bank account to pay for learning - and that’s what this book is.This book does a great job of being concise and walking you through a full setup from start to finish. Not too in depth and not too basic. I’ve never done a guitar setup but I’m patient and have some mechanical skill. I now have the best playing electric I’ve ever owned. Almost perfectly in tune across the entire neck. Amazing and fun to play for the first time. I’m no longer cringing when a note way up on the 17th fret is out of tune even though it’s in tune while player open. It sounds so amazing.I only own Fender style instruments and I appreciated that this book also explained the other styles of bridges and nuts so I know what I’m up against if I buy an Ibanez or Gibson. It also covered the basics of setting up an acoustic but doesn’t go into incredible detail on bridge work - doesn’t talk at all about how to lengthen or shorten the string length if you are having intonation issues on an acoustic. It does talk about adjusting the height of the bridge on an acoustic though. String length on an acoustic is way more complicated so that makes sense to skip it but an explanation as to why it was skipped or generally what needs to be accomplished would have been nice even if not fully explained.
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A good guitar maintenance starter
A very basic 'guitar setup' manual but that's the beauty of this book. It's aimed at the 'beginner' and hits its mark. Pictures and diagrams are more than adequate to visually assist the written instructions; helpful guides and 'where-to-look' information are located at the end of the book. A good guitar maintenance starter.
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Excellent book
Lots of great information and tips for a new guitar luthier.
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Awesome Guide for Beginners as advertised!
Sure, there is likely a YouTube video for how to set up your guitar, especially if you have one of the more ubiquitous models. This book is awesome because it iterates through lots of different cases, whereas most video instruction is for a particular model. For the price, this is perfect if you want to set up your own guitars.The step-by-step instructions are great, but the setup spec sheets and tables in the back are the best. Not that you couldn't do some Googling and then compile something like this on your own, but this book makes it very convenient to learn the process and concepts VERY quickly.After learning the basics from this book, I was able to set up my Peavy T-27 to my liking with a few hours of tinkering. This guitar is kind of an odd duck with smatterings of features from other guitars, plus a few of its own unique ones. Without the ease of access to the knowledge in this book, I would have really struggled with my typical "figuring it out on my own" mode. MIGHT have gotten to the same place, but I probably wouldn't have gotten nearly as much sleep that night!
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Guitar setup
Nice book! It has lots of photos and looks easy to understand.Haven’t used it yet but looking forward to it. Book arrived in good condition..The font is a bit smaller for me but not really an issue.
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Easy to understand
With careful attention the manual is easy to follow. It has some good tips. The price is reasonable. Thumbs up!
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I don't like these books I bought, I'm donating to one of our Libraries
Not really worth buying, to me. I'm going to Donate my Guitar books to one of our Libraries in Greene County
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Just what you need to learn to set up your guitar
I bought this book a while ago now and used it to teach myself to set up my own guitars and basses. As a result, I started doing a few modifications and repairs and, in the process, bought a number of other books to help with those, many of which also covered setting up a guitar. I have to say that despite the quality of the other books I have purchased, this is the one I always have open on the bench when setting up a guitar as it is a quick easy reference to help remind me of a process or the way to do something. For me, it's an excellent book for a beginner, or as a reminder, and it does exactly what it says in the title; no more, but, importantly, no less!
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Abbastanza bene
Valido solo per chitarra elettrica
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Plenty of information in it
Good book , full of info
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Impecável
Corresponde ao anúncio.
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Great!
A good setup guide for electrics
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