처음으로 일렉트릭 기타를 사는 것에서부터 자기만의 액션을 셋업하는 것에 이르기까지 모든 과정을 스스로 하는 플레이어들을 위한 이 책은 일렉트릭 기타를 소유하고 관리하는 법들을 자세히 설명하고 있습니다.
좋은 기타를 고르는 법; 기타의 청소, 필요한 도구와 기본적인 관리; "팩토리 셋업"을 자신에게 맞게 바꾸고 향상시키는 법; 고장 대처 요령; 기타에 관련된 기본적인 전기 지식; 프로들의 셋업 등이 자세하게 기술되어 있습니다.
베스트셀러인 Guitar Player Repair Guide와 유명한 Guitar Player지의 리페어 컬럼의 저자 Dan Erlewine이 쓴 이 책의 맨 뒤 페이지에는 떼서 쓸 수 있게 만든, 플라스틱으로 된 곡률 게이지들도 들어있습니다.


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Evaluating a Guitar
Play the guitar
Inspect for cracks, dents, and scratches
Test the neck for strength and twist
Sight the neck for straightness or relief
Check a bolt-on neck's alignment
Inspect the nut's shape, slots, and action
Check the fret condition and height
Make sure the truss rod works
Determine the fretboard and bridge radii
Check the bridge and tailpiece
Check the tuning keys
Make sure the hardware is secure
Check the electronics

Setup Tools
A short list of tools you'll need

The Eight Steps to a Supreme Setup
Step 1: Fretboard Cleaning and Installing Strings
Moist breath treatment
Solvents
Scraping
Steel wool
Lubricating dry fretboards
String installation
   Installing strings on Fender and Fender-style guitars
      String trees
      Fender style method one
      Fender style method two
      Fender style method three
      Fender style method four
      Fender style method five
   Installing strings on Gibson and Gibson-style guitars
      Gibson style method one
      Gibson style method two
      Gibson style method three
      Gibson style method four
   Stringing up locking tuners
      Gotoh locking tuners
      PRS locking tuners

Step 2: Adjusting The Truss Rod
Truss rod adjustment tools
Truss rod types and how they work
Easy adjustments
   Standard one-way truss rods
   Two-way truss rods
Making difficult truss rod work
   1977 Gibson Les Paul Standard
   1980s Sunburst Les Paul
   1995 Fender Bajo Sexto baritone guitar
      Method one
      Method two
Baritone tunings and string gauges

Step 3: Nut Adjustment and Maintenance
Measuring string height at the nut
   Measuring string height in the playing position
   Third-fret press test
   My favorite feeler gauges
Checklist for a perfect nut
   Common nut problems
   Nut working tools
   Make your own nut files
   Cleaning nut slots
   Back-filing nut slots
   Filling in nut slots that are too low
   Removing excess nut material
   Gluing a loose nut
   Shimming a traditional nut
   Shimming a mechanical nut
Using a lubricated nut with tremolos
Working with locking nuts
String trees, tuning keys, and string angle to the nut
   String trees
   Tuning keys
   Tuning key weight affects the sound
   Die-cast tuners
   Locking tuners with low tuning post holes

Step 4: Bridge and Tailpiece Maintenance
Good coupling = good tone
Graph Tech String Saver saddles
Cleaning rusted bridge parts
Tele bridge saddles
   Giving up those rough and rusty ways
   Squeezin' the strings
   I can't get no satisfaction
   Thinking outside the box
   Crooked bridge ahead
Gibson's Stop-Bar tailpiece and Tune-O-Matic bridge
   Neck-to-body angle
   Removing a rusted stop-bar tailpiece
   Straightening a collapsed Tune-O-Matic
   Cleaning the ABR-1 bridge
   Changing the radius on a Tune-O-Matic
   Super-smooth saddles
   Installing new Tune-O-Matic saddles
   When things don't fit, use a bigger hammer!
   Setting the stop-bar tailpiece height
   Top-wrapping a stop-bar tailpiece
   Tidying up loose ends
Why didn't I think of that?
PRS stoptail bridge
Stop bars, Tune-O-Matics, and tone
Dismantling Gibson's Nashville bridge

Step 5: Whammy Bars
Adjustment, maintenance, and setup of tremolos, tremolo bridges, and locking-tremolo bridges
Traditional vibrato systems
Installing a Bigsby vibrato
   A different arm placement
   Installing strings on a Bigsby
   Keep the coupling!
   Quiet as a mouse
   Shifting a tailpiece
   Gretsch's solid-bar tremolo bridge
   Bigsby aluminum bridge and saddle
Vintage Stratocaster model
   Fitting the base plate
   Making a Strat play great
   Disassembling Strat-style bridges
   Choose the saddle-height screws
   Selection of tremolo springs
   Vintage tremolo bridge springs
   American Standard springs
   Keeping a Strat's tremolo arm tight
   Blocking a tremolo
   Tapered blocking
Fender Jazzmaster tremolo bridge
   Adjusting the rocker bridge
Gibson's Maestro Vibrola
Gordon-Smith's "wobble bar"

Modern two-point floating vibratos
Eliminating flutter
Tremolo stabilizers
Adjusting the American Standard tremolo
   Fender's recommended setup
   Adjusting American Standard saddles
Wilkinson Vibrato bridges
Hipshot's ball-bearing tremolo bridge
Anderson Tremolo bridge by Fishman
The Floyd Rose locking tremolo
   Tightening a loose EDGE tremolo arm
   Changing strings
   Shimming the locking nut
   Working with stud lock screws
   Setting the fine tuners
Floyd Rose troubleshooting
   If the strings return sharp
   If the strings return flat
   A pre-set saddle radius
   How many springs does the EDGE have?
   Why slant springs toward center?

Step 6: Bolt-On Neck Quirks
Shifting a bolt-on neck
Neck mounting screw clearance
Shimming a neck in the pocket:
   Fender's Micro-Tilt neck adjustment
Taper the shim(s)
Stagger the taper
Treaded neck mount inserts
Feitenizing a bolt-on neck

Step 7: Cleaning Dirty Finishes and Hardware
Beware of soft finishes!
Cleaning technique
   A typical cleaning scenario
   Using polishes: experiment and work in small areas
   Using naphtha remoce oil
Cleaning hardware

Step 8: Setting the Intonation and Tuning Your Guitar
Fretboard scale length

String length and intonation
Finding the string length
Pre-adjustment checklist
Types of electronic tuners
Most players tune to the "attack"
Set intonation with guitar in playing position
Basic approach to setting intonation
Things that make intonation difficult
Don't cause a false reading
Nashville cats
Learn to train your ear

Tuning your guitar
Paul Guy's tips on tuning
   The "5/7" harmonics method
   Tuning to a chord
   Octave method
   Paul Guy's tuning method
   Tips for any tuning method
Tuning on the open range
A quick method for tuning a guitar
Tuning up after removing the strings
Improving intonation on a Telecaster
   Pro's perspective: tuning hell
Buzz Feiten Tuning System
   Decide for yourself

Putting it all Together
Get to know your frets
Fretboard radius
Compound radius fretboards
Study your fretboard

Setup checklist

Setup measurements

How They Do It: A Guide to the Great Setups
Fender's ten-step setup
Lubricate the friction points!
Action setup for a Floyd Rose System

Ibanez factory specs
Adjusting the tremolo, setting intonation
A couple of wing-nuts

Telecaster masters
Jim Weider's favorite Fenders
Twangin' with Bill Kirchen
Jimmy Smails' 1975 Tele Custom

Settin' up to slide
Jim Weider's 1960 Silvertone Danelectro
Dave Hole's 1972 Gibson ES-345

Les Pauls
1959 Les Paul with humbuckers
1978 Les Paul with P-90s
John Borchard's 1954 Gold Top

Masters of the Stratocasters
Robert Cray's Stratocaster setup
Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Number One"
Chris Duarte
Beck Boogies
Eric Johnson's '57 Stratocaster

Archtops and semi-hollow electrics
Epiphone Sheraton
Setting up a Gretsch with Brian Setzer
TV Jones Spectra-Sonic/Gretsch "hot rod"
1959 Gretsch Anniversary
Gibson ES-350 T
John Borchard's 1967 Gibson ES-355
Paul Reed Smith McCarty
Jorma Kaukonen
Gene Baker BH1
Duke Robillard

Guitars that broke the mold
Roger Sadowsky
Tom Anderson Guitarworks
Michael Stevens LJ
John Carruthers Custom
Nuno Bettencourt signature model

Dan's Faves
1956 Danelectro U2
FRET-King Elan
Gordon-Smith
Washburn CT5BB "Blackburst"
Fender Custom Shop Bajo Sexto
Junior Brown, tone player
Lucy, Albert King's Flying V

Installing strap locks

Resources
Conversion Charts