Complete Guitar Care & Maintenance: The Ultimate Owners Guide

“Everything you need to maintain, set up and protect your guitar for many years of playing enjoyment.”

The essential care guide for guitar owners everywhere. Filled with over 220 pages of step-by-step instruction, 300 images and diagrams, and a plethora of exclusively derived specifications and manufacturers’ recommendations. You will have everything you need to take care of any guitar, no matter what experience level. 

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What’s Inside:

• Comprehensive Repair & Maintenance: Learn everything from cleaning and restringing to setups, adjustments, and minor repairs.
• Step-by-Step Instructions: Detailed guidance with 300 images and diagrams for easy understanding.
• Guitar Setups: Boost performance with precision adjustments for neck relief, string height, pickup height, and intonation.
• Minor Repairs: Confidently tackle electronics issues, replace jacks, switches, and pickups.
• Exclusive Setup Specs: Includes manufacturer’s settings from Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, and more, plus the author’s personal best-playing setups.
• Tool Templates & Wiring Diagrams: Handy cut-out templates and common wiring setups for easy DIY repairs.

This is a complete reference manual, perfect for players, collectors and budding professionals alike. Written to be simple, accessible, streamlined, and easy to follow. Pertains to electric, acoustic, classical, and bass guitars.

“Jonny’s guitar wizardry has been my guiding North Star through my past 10 years of guitar teching. He taught me the fundamentals so clearly and concisely that I was able to confidently take on expert work knowing that I had the perfect back bone of knowledge to grow from. Simple, impeccable and deep, Jon is a true guitar guru and a brilliant artist in it all!” 
-Daryl Chonka, Guitar Tech for Randy Bachman (The Guess Who & BTO), Recording Engineer, Recording & Performing Artist

“This is a fantastic book. Every guitar player should have a copy. It is really well-written, logically laid out, and contains all the information needed to do all common setup operations. The explanations are crystal clear. Every guitar player will be able to follow the instructions to do their own setups.” –R.M. Mottola, Liutaio Mottola Stringed Instrument Design, contributing editor for American Lutherie, the journal of the Guild of American Luthiers, & editor of the Savart Journal.

Included in the book:

• How to maintain your guitar for peak performance & longevity
• How to clean, polish and store the guitar for long-term protection
• How to restring the guitar properly
• How to set up electric, acoustic & bass guitars
• How to adjust neck relief (bow) for optimum playability
• How to adjust string height for your playing style and guitar type
• How to file nut slots, adjust pickup height and set the intonation accurately
• How to adjust Fender-style tremolo’s, Gibson hard-tails, Floyd Rose and other floating bridge types
• How to adjust the saddle on your acoustic steel string or nylon string guitar
• How to solder and repair electronics
• How to replace jacks, switches, and pickups
• Manufacturer’s setup specs from Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, Jackson, Gretsch and others
• Exclusive setup specifications from the author’s best playing guitars & basses
• Cut-out templates for radius gauges, under-string radius gauges & an action ruler
• An extensive troubleshooting section
• A library of common wiring diagrams
• A handy measurement conversion chart
• And much more!

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