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How to Adjust Your Truss Rod Without Breaking Your Guitar
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How to Adjust Your Truss Rod Without Breaking Your Guitar
StewMac HeatStick for Neck Removal
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StewMac HeatStick for Neck Removal
Surrogate Body for the Erlewine Neck Jig
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Surrogate Body for the Erlewine Neck Jig
Banjo 5th Peg Drill Jig Instructions
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Banjo 5th Peg Drill Jig Instructions
StewMac Safe-T-Planer Instructions
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StewMac Safe-T-Planer Instructions
Regluing a Rickenbacker fretboard
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Regluing a Rickenbacker fretboard
How to install a bolt-on neck
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How to install a bolt-on neck
Metric String Action Gauge
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Metric String Action Gauge
String Action Gauge Instructions
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String Action Gauge Instructions
Video: Tips for installing fretboard side dots
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Video: Tips for installing fretboard side dots
Short video: Making a guitar neck more comfortable to play
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Short video: Making a guitar neck more comfortable to play
Dan Erlewine's do-it-yourself neck shaping jig
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Dan Erlewine's do-it-yourself neck shaping jig
Top Deflection Gauge Instructions
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Top Deflection Gauge Instructions
Building upbow into the guitar neck
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Building upbow into the guitar neck
Gluing a broken peghead
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Gluing a broken peghead
Flat-sanding a guitar fingerboard
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Flat-sanding a guitar fingerboard
Final-shaping a neck with files and scrapers
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Final-shaping a neck with files and scrapers
Fix a broken nut with baking soda?
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Fix a broken nut with baking soda?
Binding repair on a '55 Gretsch Roundup
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Binding repair on a '55 Gretsch Roundup
Rare black Dan Armstrong bass: fretboard repair
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Rare black Dan Armstrong bass: fretboard repair
Repairing a broken-off tuner screw
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Repairing a broken-off tuner screw
How to fit a preshaped nut on a guitar
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How to fit a preshaped nut on a guitar
Video: Plugging stripped holes in bolt-on guitar necks
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Video: Plugging stripped holes in bolt-on guitar necks
A sign of truss rod trouble, and an easy solution.
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A sign of truss rod trouble, and an easy solution.
Fixing a 1965 Gibson Firebird with holes in its head!
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Fixing a 1965 Gibson Firebird with holes in its head!
A pain in the necks: Gibson doubleneck with a broken truss rod
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A pain in the necks: Gibson doubleneck with a broken truss rod
Hiding an "evil smile" peghead break with the Razor Blade Trick
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Hiding an "evil smile" peghead break with the Razor Blade Trick
Using Neck Set Sandpaper
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Using Neck Set Sandpaper
Why use a household iron on a fretboard?
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Why use a household iron on a fretboard?
The damage caused by storing a guitar in a hot car or attic
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The damage caused by storing a guitar in a hot car or attic
Fine tuning a bolt-on replacement neck
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Fine tuning a bolt-on replacement neck
When dry air makes fret ends stick out, here's the fix
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When dry air makes fret ends stick out, here's the fix
How Boogie Fever led to a Neck Transplant
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How Boogie Fever led to a Neck Transplant
How to match color on vintage binding repairs
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How to match color on vintage binding repairs
Fixing a badly worn neck: super glue as both fill and finish
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Fixing a badly worn neck: super glue as both fill and finish
Quick fix for a loose bolt-on neck
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Quick fix for a loose bolt-on neck
Make a "stunt double" guitar body for benchtop work
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Make a "stunt double" guitar body for benchtop work
Relic finish: faking age cracks on a 1956 Strat
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Relic finish: faking age cracks on a 1956 Strat
Cleaning up after sloppy fretwork: fixing chips in the fingerboard
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Cleaning up after sloppy fretwork: fixing chips in the fingerboard
What's the problem with swapping Fender and Gibson bridges?
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What's the problem with swapping Fender and Gibson bridges?
Strengthening a square-tube Martin truss rod
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Strengthening a square-tube Martin truss rod
How to make a string nut for the first time
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How to make a string nut for the first time
Carlos Santana's Strat: repair and setup
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Carlos Santana's Strat: repair and setup
Neck Relief Gauge Instructions
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Neck Relief Gauge Instructions
Binding and fretting a Red Diamond mandolin fingerboard
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Binding and fretting a Red Diamond mandolin fingerboard
For ebony streaks, use black fingerboard stain
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For ebony streaks, use black fingerboard stain
Super glue your frets for better tone!
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Super glue your frets for better tone!
How to use a Fret Hammer
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How to use a Fret Hammer
Why hide glue is best for this cracked neck
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Why hide glue is best for this cracked neck
Don't be nervous about adjusting that truss rod!
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Don't be nervous about adjusting that truss rod!
How to install a Fender style (bolt-on) neck
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How to install a Fender style (bolt-on) neck
Fixing fret ends that stick out in dry weather
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Fixing fret ends that stick out in dry weather
Straightening the neck on a 1914 Gibson mandolin
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Straightening the neck on a 1914 Gibson mandolin
Guitar Neck Removal
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Guitar Neck Removal
Acoustic Neck Joint Routing Template Instructions
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Acoustic Neck Joint Routing Template Instructions
Peghead shaping
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Peghead shaping
Using Feeler Gauges to Control Nut Slot Depth
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Using Feeler Gauges to Control Nut Slot Depth
Bolt-On Necks
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Bolt-On Necks
Radius Block Basics
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Radius Block Basics
Compound Radius: Explained
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Compound Radius: Explained
Custom Peghead Decals
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Custom Peghead Decals
Neck Construction Tips and Techniques
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Neck Construction Tips and Techniques
How the stars set up their guitars
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How the stars set up their guitars
ColorTone Fretboard Finishing Oil Instructions
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ColorTone Fretboard Finishing Oil Instructions