Complete Guitar Care & Maintenance: The Ultimate Owners Guide

“Everything you need to maintain, set up and protect your guitar.”

Cleaning & Restringing – Setups & Adjustments – Care & Storage – Minor Repairs

“Complete Guitar Care & Maintenance, The Ultimate Owners Guide” is the essential care guide for guitar owners everywhere. Filled with over 280 pages of step-by-step instruction, 300 images and diagrams, and a plethora of exclusively derived specifications and manufacturers' recommendations. You will have everything you need to maintain any guitar, no matter what your experience level.

Get the low-down on instrument cleaning and preservation. Improve the performance and sound of your guitar with simple adjustments. Take your setup skills to the next level with precision neck adjustments, string height adjustments (bridge saddle and nut), pickup height adjustments, intonation, and more. Do minor repairs, fix electronics, and other common issues with total confidence. Learn about guitar care, such as humidity and storage. Use the included cut-out tool templates to broaden your guitar setup prowess.

This is a complete reference manual, perfect for players, collectors and budding professionals alike. Written to be simple, accessible, streamlined, and easy to follow. Pertains to electric, acoustic, classical, and bass guitars.

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Included in the book:

How to maintain your guitar for peak performance & longevity
How to clean, polish and store the guitar for long-term protection
How to restring the guitar properly
How to set up electric, acoustic & bass guitars
How to adjust neck relief (bow) for optimum playability
How to adjust string height for your playing style and guitar type
How to file nut slots, adjust pickup height and set the intonation accurately
How to adjust Fender-style tremolo's, Gibson hard-tails, Floyd Rose and other floating bridge types
How to adjust the saddle on your acoustic steel string or nylon string guitar
How to solder and repair electronics
How to replace jacks, switches, and pickups
Manufacturer's setup specs from Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, Jackson, Gretsch and others
Exclusive setup specifications from the author's best playing guitars & basses
Cut-out templates for radius gauges, under-string radius gauges & an action ruler
An extensive troubleshooting section
A library of common wiring diagrams
A handy measurement conversion chart
And much more!

Use it for:

General guitar maintenance
Acoustic guitar maintenance
Electric guitar maintenance
Classical guitar maintenance
Bass guitar maintenance
Electric guitar setups
Acoustic guitar setups
Classical guitar setups
Bass guitar setups
Guitar restringing
How to restring the guitar and bass
Guitar cleaning
How to clean the guitar or bass
Guitar storage
These are some examples of the guitar setup tools and supplies you will require to do the procedures outlined in the book:

guitar capo
guitar tuner
guitar setup gauge
guitar setup ruler
guitar setup straight edge (optional)
guitar setup tool kit (optional)
guitar setup mat (optional)
under-string radius gauges (optional)
guitar polish
guitar cleaner or cleaning accessories
fretboard cleaner
guitar case humidifier