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Tips on How to Set Up a Guitar : Making Neck Adjustments on an Electric Guitar

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Uploaded by on Sep 25, 2007

Learn how to make neck adjustments on an electric guitar from a professional guitar technician in this free guitar care video.

Expert: Tim Ambrosuis
Bio: Tim Ambrosius is professional guitar technician and manager at Keller Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been playing guitar for over 15 years and has worked as a professional technician for almost 10.
Filmmaker: Jason Sager

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  • Isn't the first step , showing people how to check the relief in the neck . To determine if it needs adjustment.

    He is making this up as he goes along.

    Checking the neck by eye. Wow, is he taking the piss.

    Put a straight edge along the length of the neck, and measure the gap in the middle between the straight edge, and the frets, (relief). Make very small adjustments, leave the guitar for at least 2 hours, check gap.

    Just a bit of info in case this balloon ever looks at his feedback.

  • has anyone else noticed how expertvillage is shit?

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  • what about the setup on a stratocaster dip stick i dont seem to have a truss rod plate on my headstock. . . . .

  • DON"T DO two Quarter Turns on a Les Paul or you will be way way to far..

    You need to learn your gear rather then presuming you can just turn it.

    Yeah you adjust, it looks fine BUT give it 3 days to see really what effect your adjustment did for you. Take heed yes thats about all there is to adjusting a neck, but what if it is froze, what if it is already to tight? There is more to it then he says. Different guitars Adjust differently. Some Acoustics adjust opposite...

  • All you guys are bitching? That's pretty much all there is to straightening your neck. Its that simple.

  • he had trouble putting it in the hole..

  • @JizzForBritain Yeah, they are 100% fail.

  • @idgman94 Well yeah if u knew this was EV why u clicked on it

  • all of u that think that expert village sucks

    why dont u make ur own videos i bet u suck more than them

    and why r u whatching this if u think this sucks.

  • experts my ass. more like loservillage!

  • this is worst thing you can do to a guitar,

    what the heck truss rod adjustment by looking straight to guitar,

    you must have superman' s eyes to see, haha

  • truss rod adjustment must not be done just by looking, what a fool crackhead haha

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