Then with the thumb of your right hand, fret the low E string down around the 17th fret. 005″ feeler gauge, and your hands to check the relief of your neck. If you don’t have a straight edge or notched ruler, you can use a capo, a. you want to make sure the ruler is not rocking back and forth anymore and there is no gap along the bottom edge of the ruler and the frets and/or fretboard. You will want to adjust the truss rod nut counter-clockwise until the ruler is resting flat and even across the frets and/or fretboard. If the neck has a back bow, the ruler will rock back and forth at the ends because the neck is bowed up in the middle. You will then need to grab your truss rod tool and turn the truss rod nut clockwise until that gap is gone on the bottom edge of the ruler. If there is too much relief, there will be a gap between the bottom of the ruler and the frets or fretboard near the middle of the neck. Lay the ruler down the middle of the neck. You can use a straight edge ruler that is long enough to lay across the top of most of the frets of the neck or a notched straight edge that rests against the fretboard. To straighten the neck you want to check how much relief there is first. Doing this will help flush out any fret or nut issues that can be taken care of now before the new strings are put on and the setup started. So, checking this now and correcting it is going to save your butt instead of you having to pull off your strings and bridge to pry out a bridge post or ferrule to replace the ground wire 3/4ths of the way through your setup.Īt this point, it is a good idea to straighten out the neck of your guitar. These wires lose contact or become loose quite often. The “string” ground (yellow arrow in the picture above) usually runs from the treble side post of the bridge or tailpiece and into the electronics cavity where it will be soldered to ground on the back of one of the potentiometers. This will allow you to take care of any electronic issues now that will save you time in the long run.įor example, a lot of grounding issues arise with guitars with a tune-o-matic bridge. This is the best time to plug in the instrument and check out all of your pots, pickups, jack, and switches to make sure everything is working properly. You want to go through the guitar and find out as many problems you are going to face here at this point so you don’t get halfway through the setup only to discover you overlooked something and have to waste time going back to correct it and repeat all of the steps over again. The first step in any setting up of an instrument is the initial evaluation. We will cover all the steps needed to make your guitar play better than it ever did from the factory and some tips and tricks along the way. Hello! Today we are going to go through the process of setting up a Les Paul style guitar with a tune-o-matic bridge and tailpiece.
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