Acoustic Electric Guitar Set Up

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.

Acoustic electric guitar set up.

Many people think you cant. Tune the guitar to desired pitch. Sight the neck please read the beginning of this article for thorough instruction on sighting your guitar s neck. String height or action describes the distance between the top of your frets to the bottom of your strings.

Set neck electrics both solid body and semi hollowbody rarely develop cracks but now s the time to go hunting. Most acoustic guitars are factory fitted with light gauge 12 53 or 12 54 strings although some of the high end manufacturers notably taylor and collings now fit medium gauge 13 56 strings as standard. That may be true but for me and my kind of music an off the shelf guild or martin or taylor is just right. How to buy maintain set up troubleshoot and repair your guitar by paul balmer jun 15 2011 4 7 out of 5 stars 10.

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. Modern manufacturing can m. Should be detailed enough to answer basic questions. By guitar setup i mean what many people refer to as the action of the guitar.

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. Setting up an acoustic guitar. In this video i go over how to set up an acoustic guitar. Remove the truss rod cover.

Using a set of micrometers our repairer measures the string gauge and makes a note of it on our set up tag. Setting up an acoustic guitar from start to finish with a few tips and in fairly great detail. Thanks to cheap labor and mass manufacturing in china there is a surprisingly wide variety of acoustic guitars available for around 100. This distance plays a key role in your setup because it determines the ease in which your guitar can be played.

Check problem areas such as the neck joint and the section of the headstock behind the nut. By john davis december 19 2017 0 comments. So what separates these cheap guitars from those costing five or ten times as much. The acoustic guitar handbook.

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