- How Often Should I Replace Guitar Strings?
- Wipe the strings after playing, keep your guitar in the case;
- Periodically check your guitar intonation: because it all depends on the oils on your hands that start corrosion on the strings. Some people need to replace them every one/two months because they sound out of tune. Others only change them once in 6 months.
- Always change strings for a gig or studio;
- Setting Up Your Stratocaster Guitar: Adjusting The Truss Rod (Step 1 of 4)
- Setting Up an Electric Guitar: a great tutorial to learn how to keep your guitar in perfect shape. Learn how to adjust the neck, intonation, string action/height and pickups on an electric guitar. This tutorial has all you need!!
- Truss Rod adjustment: How a Truss Rod Works; Adjusting the Truss Rod;
- String height/action adjustment: Adjusting the string height/action; Special ruler for adjusting string height/action;
- Set your guitar's Intonation;
- Adjusting a guitar tremolo system
- Cleaning Your Electronics
Guitar electronic issues:
- Guitar Electronics Repair: great tutorial/tips on common electric guitar issues: spray contact cleaner to clean pot (potentiometer); Replacing Pots; Pickucps Switch Replacement; Output Jack Repair; Wiring Repair; Soldering; Shielding;
- Guitar Ground: Dealing with ground noise problems: youtube;
- The next videos are a tutorial from: planetz.com where you can also found other tutorials on this:
- Wiring Up Guitar Electronics 1: Component Layout, Selecting Wire, Stripping and Tinning
- Wiring Up Guitar Electronics 2: Soldering Backs of Pots
- Wiring Up Guitar Electronics 3, Organizing Wire, Connecting Volume Pots and Switch
- Wiring Up Guitar Electronics 4, Connecting Tone Cap
- Wiring Up Guitar Electronics 5, Connecting the Jack.mp4
- Potentiometers - How They Work, Disassembly and Exploration
- Where to Find Guitar Wiring Diagrams
- Common Guitar Problems - Part 1 of 3: this first part deals with shealding/ground;
Guitar Wiring Diagrams:
- Washburn Mercury Original Wiring
- DiMarzio diagrams
- guitarelectronics.com
- http://www.dimarzio.com/
- http://www.emginc.com/
- http://www.seymourduncan.com/
- http://www.fender.com
General electronic tools:
- How to Solder, tips and tricks: a great video on youtube;
- Soldering Techniques: another great video on youtube. TIP: after your solder has cooled down it is a good idea to check it with an ohmmeter (PT: Ohmímetro), if it isn't good you should re-do it;
- How to Solder - The Basics
- Some soldering irons come with a desoldering pump included, example: VTDESOL3 Soldering Iron Equipped with Desoldering Pump. But there are also manual pumps that you can use with your regular solder iron.
- Heat Sinks: Heat sinks should be used to prevent heat from damaging vulnerable capacitors and other components. I will place a small alligator clip on the capacitors wires which will dissipate some of the heat that would normally pass straight to the capacitor.
Multimetro:
- Diatronica
- Servelec
- alfaelektor
- Produtos de limpeza de contactos
- Solda estanho
Notes:
Taken from this tutorial
Adjusting a guitar is all about two major things:
- the action;
- the intonation;
Action:
Variables that interfere with action (the hight of the string relativly to the neck)
- straightness of the neck
- neck pitch angle (the angle of the neck relatively to the body)
- height of the nut and the the not string slots dept
- height of the saddles
- fret hights (low frets are good for fast action guitars)
Intonation:
The higher the action the more likely the guitar will sound out of tune has you play higher and higher along the neck
- check if the neck is bowing or warping (adjust it through the truss rod. NOTE: this is a delicate operation. Its easy to to break them);
- the bridge atachement is firm (properly shrewed to the body of the guitar);
- check the neck set angle (the angle of the neck relatively to the body) see: Setting Guitar Neck Pitch Angle
- nut height
- height of the saddles at the bridge
- fret board thickness and if they are all leveled between each other
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