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So you decided to take up guitar playing and you got your first electric guitar. Let’s say it’s a Stratocaster or Strat Style guitar. Every guitar you by, regardless of price point (even some Custom Shop guitars) is going to need a set up.
There are plenty of YouTube videos to guide you in doing the set up yourself. You will need some tools, but they don’t have to be expensive. You may have some of the tools already in your home.
Most of the tools I am going to present in this article were had for cheap from TEMU. Here’s what you will need.
A Rubber Hammer
A Phillips screwdriver and possibly a Flathead screw driver
A business card, an old plastic credit card to cut into a fret rocker, or a metal Fret Rocker
A 12 inch ruler to use as a Straight edge, a six inch metal ruler that measures in 64ths of an inch, or a luthiers metal credit card type ruler that measures in 64ths of an inch and millimeters
A capo and metric/SAE Allen Wrenches
A string winder
And finally an electronic Tuner and a 10mm wrench and or a pair of household pliers, and a small set of wire cutters for clipping strings.
See Part II
There are plenty of YouTube videos to guide you in doing the set up yourself. You will need some tools, but they don’t have to be expensive. You may have some of the tools already in your home.
Most of the tools I am going to present in this article were had for cheap from TEMU. Here’s what you will need.
A Rubber Hammer
A Phillips screwdriver and possibly a Flathead screw driver
A business card, an old plastic credit card to cut into a fret rocker, or a metal Fret Rocker
A 12 inch ruler to use as a Straight edge, a six inch metal ruler that measures in 64ths of an inch, or a luthiers metal credit card type ruler that measures in 64ths of an inch and millimeters
A capo and metric/SAE Allen Wrenches
A string winder
And finally an electronic Tuner and a 10mm wrench and or a pair of household pliers, and a small set of wire cutters for clipping strings.
See Part II
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