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Final Setup

Dial in neck relief, string action, intonation and pickup height so your guitar plays in tune, feels comfortable and delivers balanced tone.

How to check the neck alignment and neck angle

For many guitar players, the neck is where the action happens. The neck is the primary way of interacting with a guitar’s body, and as such it should be as comfortable as possible. The neck angle and the neck alignment also greatly affects a guitar's

How to Perform a Complete Final Setup on Your Guitar

At this point, you have already finished building your DIY guitar kit and just want to make sure it sounds right. The only thing left to do is to perform a final setup. Here's how!. Are you experiencing fret buzz on your guitar? That annoying vibrati

How do you test the sound of the guitar?

The guitar is one of the most important musical instruments found in all genres of music. The two most commonly used instruments are the acoustic guitar and the electric guitar. Today we will show you how to make sure your guitar sounds the way it sh

How Does Pickup Position Affect Sound?

💡Recommended: How to fix electrical interferences. The position of the pickups on a guitar can be divided into three general categories: neck position, middle position, and bridge position. Each position has its own unique sound characteristics. The

How to Adjust your Guitar Intonation

DIY Kit guitars are notorious for requiring some adjustment before being ready to play. There are a number of things you will need to do prior to playing your new guitar including adjustments to the neck using the truss rod to reduce warping or bowin

How High Should my Pickups be?

How high should you adjust your pickups after your kit guitar assembly is complete? It makes sense to want to know after all it has the potential to have an impact on the output of your new guitar and since you have built this guitar yourself you don

What should the finished guitar look like?

That’s completely up to you, but we do have some advice that will help steer you in the right direction, use a reference. In most cases, this will be a guitar you particularly like the look of and want to create something similar. To view the latest

How good can a kit guitar sound?

It’s defined firstly by the components you use and secondly the workmanship that goes into putting it all together. There are some very good kit guitars available and some lesser quality guitar kits. Watch the community section of our Youtube Channel