The Novice's Guide To Guitar Repairs - 149 pages paperback
This little book is just loaded with the most helpful and relevant information
regarding taking care of your guitar, making minor adjustments to your guitar from time to time, and how to make repairs to your guitar if it's ever necessary.
The questions contained in this book are divided into six major sections to make it easy and quick to find the answer you're looking for. When you have a question about your guitar you need and answer to, first just decide if the question is related to frets, necks, tuning, strings, bridges, pickups, electronics, finish, cosmetics, care, or handling of the guitar. Then just go to the section of the book that deals with your question and you'll find some really good answers and information. The questions and answers are actual user questions and expert answers from guitar magazine. And the way the book is put together, it works well as a reference book, or you can just read it cover to cover like any other book. It's quite informative and interesting and provides insight that is not often found. I like the idea of just bookmarking where I'm at in the book and reading an article or two as time permits. Sometimes you just have a few spare minutes in the day and wonder how to fill the time. The nice, short question and answer reads in this book allow me to learn a lot about about the guitar repair and maintenance, in a very little time. Along with its smaller size which makes it easy to bring wherever you go, the short reads make this the perfect book to have on the go.
Will it damage my guitar if I play music that requires me to change tunings a lot? This is a paraphrase of a sample question from the book. See what I mean. The cool thing about the nature of these questions is that they are questions that, over many years, people wrote in to a popular guitar magazine in search of an answer. What this means is that these are inherently tough questions that people had difficulty finding an answer to when they asked around with their friends and teachers. It means you can really learn a lot of cool guitar knowledge by spending some time and reading this book. Even if the questions don't pertain exactly to what you're doing with the guitar today, after having read this book, you have the knowledge to use and benefit from in the future.
Another thing about the questions and answers in this book is that since they are from a magazine where space is always tight, they are brief and to the point. There's nothing wasted on long winded explanations. You can learn a lot fast. All in all, this book will quickly provide you with expert answers to the relevant guitar repair questions that most all guitar owners have.
