COMPLETE GUITAR WIRING

With a foreword by Dan Erlewine

Whether you're swapping your first pickup or you work on guitars for a living, you'll find Complete Guitar Wiring crammed full of expert technical and practical advice to help you out.

From the basics of how things work, through electric and acoustic pickup systems, and on to a succession of soldering and wiring projects, this book walks you through step by step. There's a huge library of reference diagrams, modifications, and lots of troubleshooting tips in case things go wrong. It’s 400 pages filled with the information you need to tackle your guitar wiring projects.

Written in a friendly, easy to understand style and richly illustrated in full colour throughout, Complete Guitar Wiring is the best way to learn guitar wiring. Learn more about Complete Guitar Wiring…

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Sketchy Setups Guides

The easiest way to great guitar setup

Imagine your best friend was a setup guru…

And wrote a book just for you.

Sketchy Setups are friendly, easy to follow ebook guides to getting your guitar or bass playing its best.

There’s no filler. No unnecessary information. Get the guide for your guitar or bass and learn the steps just for that instrument.

Just great guitar and bass setup. Easy.

You can get a guide for each of the following instrument types:

#1: The Fender Stratocaster
#2: The Fender Telecaster
#3: Gibson Guitars
#4: Precision and Jazz Basses
#5: Fender Offset Guitars
#6: Locking Tremolo
#7: Acoustic Guitars

If you’re not sure where to start, start here.

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Buying Used Guitars

Guitars can go through a lot of hardship and even well-cared for used guitars can be hiding potential problems.

As a guitar repairer, I’ve seen these issues and have had to give buyers the repair bill to put them right. Better to find the problems before you buy.

Buy with confidence and avoid the lemons. Learn more…

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Free guide to solve intonation problems on guitar and bass

Solving Intonation Problems

Intonation is tricky.

There are a lot of things that all add up to good intonation and, if you're having problems, you might need to be aware of them all.

Available for free download.

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Truss Rods Made Easy

Cut through the misinformation and horror-stories about truss rods.

If you've ever said, "I'll do anything on my guitar but I won't touch the truss rod," this is the book for you.

Available for free download. Learn more about Truss Rods Made Easy.

How do truss rods work? How can you adjust a truss rod? Free guide.

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