Sketchy Setups #7: Acoustic Guitar

The easiest way to great guitar setup!

Imagine your best friend was a setup guru…

And wrote a book just for you.

Sketchy Setups are friendly, easy to follow guides to getting your guitar or bass playing its best.

There’s no filler. No unnecessary information. Just get the guide for guitar or bass and learn the steps just for that instrument.

Why read about a Floyd Rose when you're setting up an acoustic? Each Sketchy Setups is completely focussed with simple setup steps for only one type of instrument

No need to wade through massive books, trying to find the relevant parts for your instrument. No searching for the pearls among millions of forum posts.

Easy, friendly advice for a great guitar setup.

Sketchy Setups #7 Acoustic Guitars covers

• the tools you’ll need
  
• how to measure and set relief
  
• the tricky problem of setting up a nut
  
• how to measure and set action, including the best ways to modify the saddle.
  
• info on intonation
  
• setting up and balancing pickups, especially undersaddle pickups.
  
• stringing and tuning tips
  

Each individual Sketchy Setups guide is available as PDF. If you upgrade to one of the bundle packages, you’ll get a compressed zip file containing multiple PDF guides.

Sketchy Setups is the easiest way to a great setup.

If you’re not sure where to start, start here.