Acoustic Electric Guitar Set Up

There is only one thing about buying off the rack acoustic steel string guitars that really really sucks and that s the setup or rather the lack of it.

Acoustic electric guitar set up.

Acoustic guitars might all be built for a common purpose but they are as individual as the people who play them so to make sure that your guitar is not only at its optimum when it comes to playing but comfortable and suited to your own personal needs. Using a set of micrometers our repairer measures the string gauge and makes a note of it on our set up tag. Set neck electrics both solid body and semi hollowbody rarely develop cracks but now s the time to go hunting. Use a straightedge for added assurance pictured.

Tune the guitar to desired pitch. By guitar setup i mean what many people refer to as the action of the guitar. By john davis december 19 2017 0 comments. Thanks to cheap labor and mass manufacturing in china there is a surprisingly wide variety of acoustic guitars available for around 100.

Setting up an acoustic guitar. Setting up an acoustic guitar from start to finish with a few tips and in fairly great detail. String height or action describes the distance between the top of your frets to the bottom of your strings. So what separates these cheap guitars from those costing five or ten times as much.

Modern manufacturing can m. In this video i go over how to set up an acoustic guitar. Check problem areas such as the neck joint and the section of the headstock behind the nut. The acoustic guitar handbook.

Set the relief capo the first fret and press the 15th fret with your finger then use your feeler gauge on the 8th fret to measure the height. How to buy maintain set up troubleshoot and repair your guitar by paul balmer jun 15 2011 4 7 out of 5 stars 10. That may be true but for me and my kind of music an off the shelf guild or martin or taylor is just right. I show how to alter the action height and how to adjust the intonation.

Many people think you cant. Action determines how much pressure and distance is required for the string to make full contact with each fret. Should be detailed enough to answer basic questions. This distance plays a key role in your setup because it determines the ease in which your guitar can be played.

Sight the neck please read the beginning of this article for thorough instruction on sighting your guitar s neck.