How To Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great!

This book is packed with all the information that you need to successfully evaluate a guitar prior to purchasing it, with a host of information on how to maintain it and keep it in good working order. It is obvious that the information contained in this book has been compiled over many years through just pure experience from learning and working on guitars. This book is invaluable to anyone who intends to maintain their own instruments or starting out to maintain other players instruments, a really good book worth every penny.

The pictures inside the book are printed in a very bad black and white . For instance, you can't see the strings easily for stringing the tuners. That's why I give a average note.
However I wish you a happy 2012 year!

Best book I've seen to get your axe ready to play!Gotta get another one for my brother.

This is a great book that follows a logical sequence & does a great job of giving explanations.

I would recommend it to anyone from beginner to advanced. It offers a lot of trade secrets that really work.

Buy it, read it, do it.. then "shut up & play your guitar." -Frank Zappa

I've been building and repairing guitars for over 10 years and this book has taught me tips that I didn't know. Great even for beginners, will help you to have a great playing guitar in no time. I suggest buying the set up tool kit that SM sells as well, worth the money!

The pictures in this book are very poor quality. They are very blur. They look like printer ran out of ink. It is hard to see the details in the pictures and makes my eyes tired. The secret they reveal is nothing more than you can find in Youtube.

I have read this book cover to cover 5 times, setup 3 guitars, and now I can write a review. This is the first book I bought from StewMac and I will probably buy more.

So many items on StewMac get 5 stars that it's hard to figure out what to buy. First and foremost, this is a ELECTRIC GUITAR SETUP book. Period. Neck relief, fretboard radius, string height, nut building, bridge work, tremolo setup, and some fret dressing. Nothing on electronics, little on woodwork, little on finishes and cleaning. I don't say that as a negative, only to help you figure out what to buy since StewMac sells so many training guides.

It's absolutely worth the money and the included radius gauges are useful.

One thing I would add - if you're not sure that your nut's string takeoff point is correct, tune the guitar using the standard open (unfretted) method, then fret it one, two or three frets and check with a chromatic tuner. Then check at the 12th and 15th frets and see where things are at. If the string is equally sharp at every fret but is okay when you tune it open (unfretted), then you need to bring the takeoff point closer to the frets and away from the headstock.

This is a great book,I needed something for a Floyd Rose Tremolo and this book had it all,if you want to set up your own guitar,you gotta get this book,
Happy playing, chasguitar.

This book rocks.

When it comes to electric guitars, Dan Erlewine has seen it all, and generously shares his knowledge, experience, and innovative solutions in this great book. If you want to buy, setup, repair, or build an electric guitar, buy this book and save yourself the learning curve.