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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
This modification removes the "knife switch" selector, and replaces it with three on/off switches, that allow you to control each pick-up individually.
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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