Given the Coronavirus situation, it’s not surprising that I’ve had a lot of questions about how to sanitise a guitar? Can it be done? What products are safe to use on guitar, etc.?
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Bone for tone, right? Usually, I’d agree. But not all bone is created equal. Check it out…
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I’ve talked a lot about good setup and about how to make a nut so it’s time to address the elephant in the room: Nut files. Long story, short: You need ‘em for a complete setup. So what nut files should you buy and where should you get them?
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You might have been tempted by a set of double-sided nut files being sold cheaply on eBay. Free postage from China and not much money for a set of gauged guitar nut files sounds great. But are they any good? Let’s review…
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In Part 1, we cut our nut roughly to fit and we began slotting it. Now we get to the delicate business — properly bringing those slots to the correct depth. After than, it’s an easy task to shape and polish it for a great final job.
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It’s often necessary to remove the pickguard to adjust a Tele’s neck pickup.
That’s fine when you can remove the pickguard. Instruments with 22-fret necks throw a challenge into the mix.
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What direction to wind a string onto a tuner is something that can be confusion to some players, especially those starting out. Doing it the wrong way can have consequences so check out how it's done.
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If you set your string action by ensuring the bottoms of each string are a consistent distance from the frets, doesn’t that mean the tops of the strings are now inconsistent because of the different string diameters? Is this a problem? Do you need to be concerned?
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Another look at the integrated saddle/piezo pickup. You’ll most often find these in Takamine guitars but there are variants around. Like this Epiphone pickup. The action needed a little finessing here and this version presented it’s own challenges.
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Can you reverse a shim to give your guitar a forward neck angle? Should you do this? Is there a benefit. Are some builders using this secret trick to improve their guitars?
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Why do some guitars have necks that angle back towards the player while some don’t? What’s the reason for this angled neck? Do we even need it?
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Word has been going around the internet recently about a cheap alternative to gauged nut files for guitar and bass. Since a proper set of nut files isn’t cheap, this is tempting. But is this alternative any good?
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