| Please note that these tutorials are the product of several authors both from the Project Guitar web site and also off site links. While there are many ways to do each of the jobs described, your way of achieving the same results may very from what is described in each of these tutorials. The authors have tried to be as complete as possible but do not take responsibility for the outcome or end result in following their work. If you have questions about anything you read here please join us in the Project Guitar Forum where you will receive many different views and can formulate your own path to choose working on your own Project Guitar. |
Miscellaneous Tips
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| Single Action Truss Rod: | Author Brian Calvert |
| View of a single action truss rod with the fret board removed printer friendly version | |
| Neck Shims: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Understanding neck shims and the purpose behind them printer friendly version | |
| Ibanez Double-Edge Rewire: | Author Kevan Geier |
| Rewiring a Double Edge trem guitar with DiMarzio pickups printer friendly version | |
| Safety Tips: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Basic safety tips everyone should know and follow printer friendly version | |
| Solder Tips n Tricks: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Helpful tips while rewiring a guitar with a floyd rose trem printer friendly version | |
| Full Neck Scallop: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Custom Richie Blackmore style full length neck scallop | |
| Make a Fret Bender : | Author Brian Calvert |
| Custom make your own radius fret bender for under $5 | |
| Micro-mini router table: | Author Brian Calvert |
| Custom make your own Micro minature router table using an exsisting piece of wood | |
| Trem Cavity Dress : | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to dress up a tremolo cavity | |
| Right -Left Trem conversion : | Author Brian Calvert |
| How to convert a right handed Edge/LoPro trem into a left handed trem |
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| Free info page : | Web site Stew Mac |
| Information on guitar building and repairing (most already mentioned here) | |
| Guitar Repair Tips : | Web site GuitarRepairShop.com |
| Misc. Articles and Tutorials on guitar repair | |
| Repair Tips: | Author Steven Kersting |
| Misc. Articles and Tutorials on guitar repair | |
| Stringing Method Classical: | Author John Gilbert |
| Stringing a Classical guitar with a definite edge over the other methods | |
| Fret Buzz Locating Tool : | Author Dave Schramm |
| A tool to solve the mystery of finding the elusive fret buzz | |
| String Basics : | Author stringsbymail.com |
| General knowledge about the different varietys of strings available | |
| String Guage Tension Calculator: | Author Dan McMullen |
| An applet that calculates string tensions based on pitch, gauge and type of string | |
| Acoustic Guitar Tips: | Author Bob, Gman ( o )==# |
| Tips, tricks and maintenance for Acoustic Guitars | |
| Building proces of the guitar : | Author Jasper Boerma |
| Condensed pictorial of a guitar being made |