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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:40 pm
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Dan's books are the bible of guitar repair / setups. My first guitar mod experience was rewiring a 335 clone with new wire/pickups/switches/jack/and pots. Talk about jumping in with both feet. Everything since has been a piece of cake compared to that. Took me about 3 months to complete it. It is a cheap Hamer Echotone but I will never get rid of it!


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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:12 pm
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I've learned all my guitars from top to bottom.


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My wife gets a little nervous every time I get a new guitar. I like to take them apart to learn the guitar inside out. Then I put it back together and do a setup on it.

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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:16 pm
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CAFeathers wrote:
My wife gets a little nervous every time I get a new guitar. I like to take them apart to learn the guitar inside out. Then I put it back together and do a setup on it.



Well, I'm a little too young for a wife, so I have no problems.


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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:19 pm
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blaze2727 wrote:
CAFeathers wrote:
My wife gets a little nervous every time I get a new guitar. I like to take them apart to learn the guitar inside out. Then I put it back together and do a setup on it.



Well, I'm a little too young for a wife, so I have no problems.


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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:09 pm
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like i said earlier, i'm trying to build my guitar from scratch, so i guess i'll have to do all my own repairs


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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:57 pm
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Was forced to do my own repairs recently when The Wife accidentally spilled half a pint of water down the front of Britney, my Std Strat (well, she insisted it was an accident). I was up all night stripping her down - and after that I had to take the guitar apart too.

A lot of work, but no harm done.


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Lately, learning about and getting into my own repairs, as needed. I just had to reset a bridge on my Charvel. The action was way off, and the bridge itself needed some maintenance and cleaning.

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when i get older i plan on it... now, i don't though


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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:23 pm
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I won't lie, I typically don't set up my own guitars. Especially not the acoustics. It seems overwhelming to me because I've never done it before, and now that I have nice guitars, I'd hate to damage something. I'm sure I could do it, but I simply don't want to have anything to do with adjusting the truss rod or any of that stuff. Plus, the guy I take it to does an AMAZING job for not so bad of a price.


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I do most of my own modding and adjustment work. It's fun and you learn alot.

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It used to scare me, but one day I got tired of being scared and did a set up on my Squier Tele. It turned out to be really easy and fun, truss rod adjustment and all (I just Fallowed the instructions here at Fender, then discovered the Forum at the same time). So I did all my Guitars, and my Dads Guitars, and my Neices Guitar.

As far as repair, if it's replacing parts or soldering, I'm all for it. If it's wood repair, like broken necks, I'm lost and it's time for a Pro.

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Wow, Talk about digging one out of the archives.

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My guitars are to new to need any repairs - I'm fairly new at this game - but I have learned how to rebalance the trem and set the tension to my Ibanez which needs doing at every string change. Grrr lol


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I do all my own setups now. I do as much repair work as I can.

I also took a guitar in , in around 1990 and the guy almost wrecked it.

It was an old (well, only 4 or 5 years old then,) Ibanez. I needed the tone pot replaced. he decided to do a 'major setup' and ended up twisting the neck, among other things. I was young and didn't think about any legal recourse.
I bought some books, and got some advice, and slowly fixed it up. My dad had a sweet woodworking shop in his garage, so I took the neck off, and had it in a press for a long time. I eventually fixed it. Then setting it up, I realized how easy it was (except the floyd rose was really really touchy.)

I have only ever had 2 setups by other people that I have been happy with. 1 was a friends' older brother, who has worked with a lot of famous people. The other was a guy from the Fender factory that was on a store tour, came to the store I bought my Strat from. it cost me a food donation to the foodbank to get it setup. after that I had a tech set it up, but it wasn't the same. that's when I got the Erlewine book, and used the specs in it, and then jiggered a bit for my taste.

Now I do all of it myself. Dan Erlewines' Guitar Players repair Guide 2nd edition is my current bible. i would recommend it to anyone.


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