Acoustic Guitar Setup: Adjust Neck Angle

Series Summary

The guitar has been around for nearly 5,000 years, developed from even more ancient instruments akin to the sitar, it has been inspiring audiences since its first chord was strummed. The guitar is the primary instrument involved with many genres of music including country, blues, flamenco, rock, and pop, and has been celebrated as one of the most expressive instruments in the world. Whether blending acoustic harmonies on a classical guitar or shredding solos on an electric guitar, the importance of the guitar to 20th century music cannot be ignored. If your acoustic guitar is experiencing problems like buzzing or bad intonation an acoustic guitar setup may be required to determine and fix and problems. In this free video series our expert will show you how to do this general tune up for your guitar. You will learn how to remove the guitar neck and strings, check string high and file the nuts. You will also learn how to file the saddle, add a shim and determine the reason for fret buzzing. If you play guitar and want to learn some basic maintenance tips, let our expert show you how to do this acoustic guitar setup.

Video Transcript

"Okay, so now we're actually going to do the set up on this particular instrument. And luckily we've got a Taylor, and its main problem that we've identified is that it has in improperly set neck angle. And we're lucky that it's a Taylor because you can see on this instrument, that there are two screws right on the fret board itself. And that is the way that you can adjust, not adjust, but remove the neck so that you can set the neck angle correctly. So it's a simpler job than on some instruments. On some instruments you can't set the neck angle at all. On most electrics, a bolt on neck you can do so, but on most acoustics, it's not something that's an option. So the next thing that I'm going to have to do in order to make this adjustment is I'm going to have to remove all of the strings on this instrument to have access to taking the neck off."