Guitar Repair - What every Guitar playing should know. A certificated day course

Name: Guitar Repair - What every Guitar playing should know. A certificated day course
Brand: The Guitar Social
Price: 299.00 GBP
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Get The Guitar Social 'I can fix Guitars' certificate, hang out with some cool people and, each booking comes with a 31 piece guitar repair tool kit.

If you are tired of taking your guitar for yet another set-up, or you have a guitar that you're sure, convinced should sound better than it does, then this is the one for you.

Across one glorious Saturday you'll take on all the skills needed to keep your guitar in good shape, and a guitar in good shape, is a guitar that sounds great.

You'll be doing all of this with Dan a self confessed Guitar Nerd and we love him for it. Dan's been taking guitars to bits and modifying them for as long as he has had a guitar in his hands. What started as a way to save money, has now become an obsession, just take one look at his Doctor Frankenstein's Guitar collection, made up of bits of guitars fused together with love.

You have the option of bringing your own guitar in and working on that or practicing on one of The Guitar Social's house guitars.

This program works well with Electric and acoustic guitars

Here's how the day runs

Morning

10:00 AM Coffees/Teas/Introductions

10:15 String Basics

Removing old strings

(Optional) Fretboard cleaning

Installing new strings at the bridge end of the guitar.

Installing new strings at the tuner end of the guitar

Stretching strings and tuning to pitch

11.15 AM The Truss Rod

Explaining what the truss rod does

Measuring neck relief

Locating your truss rod

Making small adjustments

11:45 AM Action and Adjustment

Explaining and measuring action

Setting action at the bridge: acoustic and classical guitars

Setting action at the bridge: Gibson style bridges

Setting action at the bridge: Fender style bridges

Setting action at the nut

1:00 pm Lunch

1:30PM Fret Buzz

Explaining causes of fret buzz 1: Not enough neck relief

Explaining causes of fret buzz 2: Action too low

Explaining causes of fret buzz 3: Uneven frets

2:00 PM

Explaining and measuring intonation

Intonation on acoustic guitars

Intonation on electric guitars

3:00 PM

Explaining how pickup height affects tone and volume

Adjusting overall pickup height

Adjusting pole piece height

4:00 to 5:00 PM Any other business, one to one assistance

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