The Player's Guide to Guitar Maintenance

Rating:
Summary: A good book on guitars
Review: A definite five star rating. If I had to choose two books to own for guitar repair and general info, it would be this one and the Earlewine book. The first thing you'll notice is the quality of the illustrations and the photos. The pages are coated stock and all the photos are in color and incredibly detailed, unlike many other guitar books that have "cheezy" grey scale photos and crude hand drawn diagrams.

What really amazed me was how current and relevant the information is. Many of the pickups and bridges mentioned for example, are the newest models available. The wiring diagrams and modifications are very easy to understand and are quite useful.

If you're looking for info on setting up your Gibson or Fender, this is the book. It's well laid out and written, informative without being boring, and has incredible photographs, illustrations, and diagrams.

Once again, five stars and a definite keeper.

Rating:
Summary: The Player's Guide to Guitar Maintenance
Review: A definite five star rating. If I had to choose two books to own for guitar repair and general info, it would be this one and the Earlewine book. The first thing you'll notice is the quality of the illustrations and the photos. The pages are coated stock and all the photos are in color and incredibly detailed, unlike many other guitar books that have "cheezy" grey scale photos and crude hand drawn diagrams.

What really amazed me was how current and relevant the information is. Many of the pickups and bridges mentioned for example, are the newest models available. The wiring diagrams and modifications are very easy to understand and are quite useful.

If you're looking for info on setting up your Gibson or Fender, this is the book. It's well laid out and written, informative without being boring, and has incredible photographs, illustrations, and diagrams.

Once again, five stars and a definite keeper.

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Summary: Great book for starters
Review: I have other books on the subject but this one helps me understand what on earth the other ones mean! If you have a lot of experiance in this field this will be mostly yesterday's news but i found it very useful as a beginner. Note: knoledge is required, someone who learned to play guitar yesterday will not profit from this otherwise great book.

Rating:
Summary: A good book on guitars
Review: In this book Burrluck gives the reader the opportunity to learn more about guitar maintenance. I believe it covers most aspects of guitar maintenance, from easy things like changing strings to not so easy things like electronics and so on. My overall opinion is that it is a good book and i don't regret buying it. I can recommend it to people who are beginners (like me). The book covers both Fender and Gibson style guitars, so the book should be helpful to you no matter what guitar you're playing. I haven't read any other books on this topic so I can't compare the book to others.

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Summary: Good, but Erlenwine is Much Better
Review: When I began shopping for a book to learn how to do basic guitar set-ups and basic maintenance, I was stuck deciding between this book and Dan Erlenwine's book. I ended up with this one because of the reviews here and the prospect of good color photos. Also, I had the impression that it was Strat focused, and I have two strats. First off, this book is very small...84 pages. The pictures are excellent... very high quality glossy photos. The problem with them is that many of them are useless. For instance, the entire first 10-15 pages or so are about the history of various guitars and very, very general guitar basic layouts. The photos are great, but if you don't know where the bridge on your guitar is, or what a Les Paul looks like, you should not be attempting to adjust things like truss rods. Another example is the intro to the bridge section, which features multiple pages of great pictures of bridges, all types. I know what my bridge looks like, I want to know hoe to work on it. I feel like this book scraches the surface of maintenance, but leaves out a good deal of the details that make for a thorough understanding of how to maintain your guitar. Take the section on cleaning...it is one page. One! Erlenwine's book has a whole chapter. The section on pickups and electronics has some good diagrams, but I think the sections in the other book ae far superior. Lastly, there is no informaion in this book on acoustics, which I knew before I bought it, but is still a mistake in my opinion. Erlenwine's book has entire sections dedicated to acoustic maintenance/repair. I ended up returning this book and buying Dan's book, which is excellent. If you have the money, I would suggest buying both, but if you only have the money for one book (or if you only want to buy one), but the Erlenwine book! Hope this helps!