The First Adjustment for Guitar Intonation

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Bill Macpherson for Expert Village now in this guitar it has a Floyd's rose bridge which I can make adjustments with a simple Allen wrench. It also has another pier which has a locking nut which locks down the strings which I also have to release every time I make an adjustment. So we know we have to make an adjustment on this saddle for the low E to bring it back so the first thing is loosen up the string up here. Now I'm going to loosen the string so I'll be able to move this back and forth, if it was really tight you wouldn't be able to move this saddle anywhere. So now that we have it loose I'm going to take my Allen wrench and loosen up this screw so that my saddle will be able to move just by pushing it, loosen it more, now you can see that I can move this with my finger back and forth cell. Now I'm going to bring it back quit a bit so I know it's off quit a bit, lock it down, re tightened my string now I'm going to get this string in tune and I'm going to re lock the nut, tune up the open E again with the fine tuning once I have it lock down, this is how you tune a Floyd rose once you have that lock down. That's perfect now we're going to check the 12 fret again and it's dead on, open E, dead on 12 fret E, dead on the string is perfect intonated."