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Guitar Maintenance

Lux782Lux782 Registered User regular
edited October 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
How do you learn what is required for proper maintenance of a guitar? Like techniques to fix bridges, necks, or how to put in a new pick-up. I'd like to learn but don't know where to start.

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  • Jimmy KingJimmy King Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    This book gets recommended frequently on a guitar forum I'm on.

    Much of the simpler stuff like changing pickups, adjusting the truss rod, and that sort of thing you can also easily pick up from a combination of youtube, reading the instructions if you have them (and DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan have their instructions online, too, I think) and common sense. General maintenance and tweaking is all pretty simple.

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  • Eggplant WizardEggplant Wizard Little Rock, ARRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Get yourself a cheap POS guitar and go to town. I recently did my first fret level job on one of my cheap guitars. It now plays better than some of my other guitars that cost 4x as much.

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  • garroad_rangarroad_ran Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Jimmy King wrote: »
    This book gets recommended frequently on a guitar forum I'm on.

    Much of the simpler stuff like changing pickups, adjusting the truss rod, and that sort of thing you can also easily pick up from a combination of youtube, reading the instructions if you have them (and DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan have their instructions online, too, I think) and common sense. General maintenance and tweaking is all pretty simple.

    Seconding the holy grail of guitar repair books.

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