Guitar Player Repair Guide - 309 Pages
The amount of repair work we do on our own guitars is kind of like how
much we work on our own cars. Some car owners are comfortable with doing and oil change, but not a brake job. Others might feel OK about having to change their own starter, but they don't want to replace a transmission on their own. And that's kind of the way it is with guitar players.
We will all change our own strings, after that there are various levels of depth that we all feel comfortable going to as far and setup, maintenance, and repair of our guitars. Some players might be comfortable doing a little bridge height adjustment in order to lower the strings and improve the action for a faster playing, and the same person might feel out of their league with the thought of soldering in a new volume potentiometer. Well, whether or not you consider yourself a wizard with tools and things mechanical,
you will probably want to learn to make a few repairs and adjustments on your guitars. Every guitar player needs to know at least a little to keep their guitars working properly and to help them to remain in as good of condition as possible.
This book can make it a lot easier for you.
Let's take a quick tour of the book and touch on some of the types of adjustments and repairs you'll be equipped to perform.
Action adjustment is covered right up front. They talk about the definition of a guitar setup, the factory specifications of the major guitars, different neck profiles, and a little about the set up for acoustic guitars. How to do a professional setup is covered. There's an interview with famous Blues guitar player B.B. King. He talks about his guitar Lucille and how it is set up for him to play. There is a section about guitar tuners and tremolo arms. There's a chapter about making adjustments to acoustic guitars. How to perform a nut replacement, if necessary. How you can do a fret dressing. How to perform the process of a complete re-fretting of a guitar. How to make repairs to an acoustic guitar. An entire section or chapter is devoted to the subject of guitar electronics. Information about applying finishes to the guitar. A section on all the tools and supplies you'll need to work on your guitar.
Tips In The Margin
One of the great features of this book is the short tips they put in the margin of the pages. It only takes a few seconds of your time, but by simply reading through these gems of wisdom you can really learn a lot fast. All the tips are related to the current subject matter the book is dealing with. The topics vary from how you can save money, how you can work safer, how you can do a better job on the task at hand. Years and years of guitar tech wisdom are available to you when you take a look at this part of the book. Enjoy!
This book is loaded with photographs and diagrams. Every step of the processes they talk you through are illustrated in a clear way to make it easier to understand what is being taught. This book is useful on a variety of levels: whether just for simple setup and finish work, or into the most complicated guitar rebuilding. You can let this book take you as deep down as you want to go into the world of do it yourself guitar repair. It's up to you how far you want to take it.
