Adjusting Guitar By Myself, Looking for some good books |
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Adjusting Guitar By Myself, Looking for some good books |
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Nov 4 2010, 04:24 PM |
Hello fellow GMCers,
I have always been interested in guitar adjustement and I want to experiment in this field. I live in an appartment where the weather is pretty unstable and my guitar setup has to be done at every change of season (3 months). Since I'm a university students that live WAY below the povrety limit I want do be able to do it by myself. I have 3 guitars at the moment: - Fender Strat - ESP F-200 (Floyd-Rose version - Seagull acoustic guitar They are different thing I am principaly concern about. First my strat sound terrible my action is really high and I still hear some fret buzzzzzzzz all around the place. I want to make it sound and play great just like it was before. As for my ESP I want to change the string gauge. Since I haven't change those strings for ???? probably years I have change a lot my playing style since. It is now fitted with some 10-52 strings gauge and I want it to become more of a shredding guitar with 9-42. It is going to be a big job since it is mounted on a Floyd Rose. Finally for my accoustic I am not to much in a hurry to set it up. It's okay for now. All that long introdcution to ask you if you have any books to recommend me for doing this kind of adjustement. I have red a lot on the Internet but at the end I always prefer good old books. For now I have found those 3. This one is more recent one I it looks pretty good http://www.amazon.ca/Guitar-Player-Repair-...1957&sr=8-1 This one looks really good (also recommended by a guy that I don't know whom has just built a guitar that is worth 8 000$), it also include some tools and way to make your own tools http://www.amazon.ca/Make-Your-Electric-Gu...3309&sr=1-3 The last one is mainly for stratocaster, it would be good for customizing my own strat. http://www.amazon.ca/Fender-Stratocaster-H.../ref=pd_sim_b_3 Any toughts, suggestions, impressions, review........ About all this ? |
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Nov 6 2010, 10:58 PM |
Seems likes there is no guitar tech on the forum ... That would be usefull....
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Nov 12 2010, 12:45 AM |
Definitely check out Dan Erlewine's videos, there are several of them on the net, and they are all very good. They guy explains very well, and he's a pro, and well established. There are some books too, but these videos are awesome. I learned a lot from them.
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Nov 14 2010, 06:54 PM |
Thanks for the tips I have never taught about looking for Dan Erlwine on youtube... I have seen several video but they haven't solve my problem yet. NP mate. I also thought he has one or two videos, but Mr. Erlwine has lots of material out. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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