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Remember, to achieve that perfect guitar setup, you will have to make three adjustments: the neck relief
(curvature of the neck), the saddle height, and the nut slot depths. If you do these things in the wrong
order, then what you have already done will be messed up by the next thing you do, and you'll end up in some
bizarre loop that will probably lead you into total frustration. However, if you make your three adjustments
in this order:
and you do Step 2 in manner that is slightly different from what many people will tell you
(you will take the measurements for the saddle height with a capo on the first fret), then each of
the three steps will leave the results of the previous step(s) completely unchanged. Hence, you'll
get to your perfect setup in just three steps, with no backtracking necessary.
As I said in the introduction, you won't need any fancy tools for the task at hand. There is one tool, though, that I will mention, and that is the set of automotive feeler gauges that you need to take your measurements. Any standard set with a range of something like .002'' to .035'' will do. |