Get To Know Your Acoustic Guitar

Noted guitar builder and repair specialist Marty Lanham of The Nashville Guitar Company gives an inside look at the flattop, steel string guitar. Learn how the guitar creates its sound, and what each component contributes to the tone - plus what you need to know about common repair and maintenace of your guitar. 2 hour DVD.

More details at: http://www.acutab.com/artists/lanham/lanham.html

Millions of people own acoustic guitars, but not many know much about how they generate tone, how they are built and maintained, or how they can be adjusted to improve tone, responsiveness or playability. Many guitarists have questions about proper care - or whether and when their instrument needs a visit to the repair shop - but don't have access to skilled luthiers to ask such questions.

Marty Lanham is Nashville's "go to guy" when delicate repair or restoration is needed on fine acoustic guitars. Prominent guitarists in country and bluegrass music rely on Marty for regular maintenance, and many use his handmade guitars on stage and in the studio. On this DVD, Marty shares his many years of experience as a luthier to help you get to know, and understand the acoustic guitar.

Marty provides an overview of the many component parts of the steel string guitar, describing what each contributes to the overall sound. You'll get to see the body of a guitar before it is assembled, and a number of disassembled guitars in the shop for repair. He then describes some of the most common guitar maintenance and repair issues, and how you can both spot and prevent them.

Symptoms of fret wear, loose braces, bridge plate wear, bride pulling up, and neck twist and warpage are among the topics covered in detail, with many close ups. He goes over neck relief, temperature and humidity, tuning machines, intonation, finish issues and when a guitar's neck may need to be reset. Causes (and fixes) for high or low action are also discussed and demonstrated.

Topics covered on Get To Know Your Acoustic Guitar:

component overview
bridge pulling up
loose bracing
bridge plate wear
action and saddle height
temperature and humidity
truss rod adjustments
cracks
restringing
intonation
finish care
choosing a used guitar
neck problems
tuning machines

Category:

Music

Tags:

• guitar
• acoustic
• unplugged
• steel
• string
• bluegrass
• flatpick
• fingerpick
• vintage
• deadnaught
• herringbone
• prewar
• d28
• d18

[roygift]

Great profession, sadly most of today's modern guitars are mass produced by cheap chinese factories.

[wisesatyr72]

what would you recommend for a loose truss rod repair ?

[rajvirsoin]

help me out... chek out my videos!

[PullOutYourGuns]

i have a yamaha fg 335 acoustic and i wanna know how much it would cost to repair the neck and head??? i knw its a cheap guitar but ehh or should i just buy a new one? idk how much they cost

[tman916x]

idk if you've got the answer already, but if you want to replace the soundboard you might as well buy a new guitar. If it's beyond a normal repair then it might not be worth it to go through the trouble because you'd have to take off the neck, undue the bindings, find a way to loosen the glue and re-brace the guitar. Hope that helped.

[pretourious]

Very informative and useful information, thank you for posting!

[vengeance76]

does acoustic guitar make be adjust anyway i mean the action

[AdventEye]

Can someone tell me how can the top side of the guitar be replaced (if possible), and how much it would cost?

Acoustic guitar.

[ihavethatguitar]

i have that guitar.

[nellee123]

thanks ill check it out :)