Acoustic Guitar Setup: Neck Set Angle by Expert Village

The next thing that we have to look at is whether the neck set angle itself is correct. When I'm talking about the neck set angle, I'm talking about whether or not the neck is sitting at the correct angle in order to get good action all the way up the... Read More »

Acoustic Guitar Setup: Adjust Shim by Expert Village

So what one thickness of credit card was not enough, two was too much. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a, a third crack at this and I'm going to actually going to take this piece of credit card and split it because, because it's a lamination... Read More »

Acoustic Guitar Setup: Make a Shim by Expert Village

So, let's see if we can find some material that would make that shim. It looks as though, on this particular instrument that this unit here, is exactly for that purpose. But it is level so we can put a shim under here and we only need, maybe, a one... Read More »

Acoustic Guitar Setup: Adjust for Fret Buzz by Expert Village

Okay, we have got the neck set angle on there now and I've brought it up to pitch and let's get another measurement. I have tested it, remember I was looking at how when we only had one string we were getting some buzzes. And I brought all of them in... Read More »

Acoustic Guitar Setup: Determine Fret Buzzing by Expert Village

Alright we've got it back together one more time, and I've got the string back on it. And action I can tell is much, much, much, much better. We are now measuring at it appears to be point oh six, or six hundredths of an inch above the thing. Let's give... Read More »