Used Acoustic Guitars

Archive for the ‘Acoustic Guitar Setup’ Category

The author explains the purpose of a truss rod in an acoustic guitar in this introductory video and points out typical points of adjustment.

The author displays the two types of files that can be used to cut the nuts to accomodate the strings of an acoustic guitar.

This video explains some of the other types of files used in setting up an acoustic guitar, and presents some specific sanding and fret dressing tools that are specific to the luthier.

Here we see some ways to level the frets on an acoustic guitar and some of the sanding tools employed to do this. The author also shows some techniques that can be used in dressing the frets of an acoustic guitar.

This video explains a little more about the intonation of an acoustic guitar and why the acoustic guitar needs to have the action set before the intonation can be adjusted.