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Electric Guitar Repair
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Fret Levelling
| If you own a well-used guitar, and are experiencing buzzing on certain frets, there is a chance that fret has been worn down. This article explains the process of correcting that problem.
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Adjusting Neck on a Guitar With Tremolo
| If you've got a guitar equipped with a Floyd Rose or other tremolo system, this page will show you how to adjust your neck to correct front or back bowing problems.
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Adjusting Neck on an Electric Guitar
| If you've got a guitar whose neck bows either forwards or backwards, this tutorial will instruct you how to correct the problem.
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Adjusting Action at the Nut
| If your string action is high, often the problem is an improperly carved nut. This article describes how to go about properly cutting a nut for your instrument. |
Installing Strap Buttons
| If you really feel comfortable drilling a hole into your instrument, in order to install and end pin (strap button), then this article should give you the basics. Me... I'll leave drilling up to the pros.
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Advice on Guitar Cleaning
| Simple, realistic advice on how to best keep your instrument clean. Includes a neat tip: use a ruler and a shammy to reach those awkward areas underneath the strings. |
How to Read Simple Schematics
| If you're interested in diving into guitar wiring, you'll need to understand how to decipher the rather confusing looking schematic diagrams. This tutorial should help you out. |
Shielding a Strat
| Instructions for properly sheilding a stratocaster, to drastically reduce excess noise that frequently occurs with single coil pick-ups. |
Shielding a Tele
| Although telecasters don't tend to be as noisy as stratocasters, they can still benefit by being properly shielded. This instructional will give you the how-to. |
The Stratocaster Pickup Selector Switch
| The scoop on the five-way selector switch which gets used in many strat and strat-copy guitars. Includes a section on switch and pot maintenance. |
Series vs. Parallel Wiring
| What they are, what the difference is, and how the concepts apply to guitars. |
Stock Stratocaster Wiring
| After you've completely rewired your guitar multiple times, and are unhappy with the results, you can use these schematics to return the guitar to it's original wiring configuration. |
Gibson-Style Guitar Wiring
| Typical wiring for Gibson and Gibson-style two pick-up guitars. You can use this schematic to return your guitar to it's original wiring configuration. |
Big Apple Strat
| Stock wiring for the Fender Big Apple Stratocaster - which has two humbucking pick-ups, and no middle pick-up. |
Shift Range of Tone Controls
| A very simple modification that simply changes the high and low values for the tone controls on your guitar. A good solution if you can't get your guitar to sound bright enough, or dark enough. |
Simple Bridge Tone Control
| A very easy modification that allows you to control the tone of your bridge pick-up, without having to change the guitars appearance in any way. |
Moving Middle Tone to Bridge
| On a standard strat, the bridge pick-up is wired to have no tone control. This modification allows you to have tonal control over your bridge pick-up (instead of the middle pick-up). |
Splitting Tone Controls into Different Ranges
| If you would like one of your pick-ups to sound darker or brighter, without affecting the tonal quality of other pick-ups, this modification will help you accomplish that. |
Putting a High Bypass on Volume Control
| This is a useful modification designed to keep your tone constant, even as you turn down the volume on your guitar. |
Humbucker Switching
| If you have a humbucker pick-up installed, but would like to use it as a single-coil pick-up, this modification will accomodate you. |
S-Tastic Strat Modification
| A very interesting stratocaster three single coil pick-up modification, created by John S. Atchley, that can actually allow the guitar to have all three pick-ups working simultaneously. |
T-Riffic Tele Modification
| Another John S. Atchley creation, which can be used to modify a two pick-up telecaster or tele-style guitar. |
Strat Lover's Strat
| Several un-invasive modifications to help you get the most out of your stock stratocaster configuration. Includes a way to use the bridge and neck pick-ups together. |
Individual Pickup Selection
| This modification removes the "knife switch" selector, and replaces it with three on/off switches, that allow you to control each pick-up individually. |
Pickup Selection with Lead-Rhythm Switch
| AKA Tone Monster, this modification is a more complex variation of the above, with an additional real-time option to switch between parallel and series pick-up wiring. |
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