Guitar Set Up

Guitars ‘n Jazz can restring and setup your guitars quickly and accurately. From the time you restring your guitar you will notice the following: the strings will be stretching out of tune and the tone of the strings will be very bright. However, as the strings settle the tone will even out and the tuning will stabilize. When excessive dents are left from fretting the strings you will notice the tone is mellower and in some cases excessive string wear will affect the intonation and tuning. This could be an indication to change strings.

Each year you should have your guitar checked and setup by one of our technicians. After years of playing, you may wear grooves into your frets where they meet the strings and this may lead to buzzing or intonation problems. If necessary, frets can be lightly leveled and dressed just as they are when they are first installed on your guitar. Our technicians can level the frets, re-crown them, and finish and round the fret ends and then polish the frets just as they were when you first received your guitar. Not all guitars come from the manufacturer with the precision and playability of a good fret dressing, and most professional players bring their guitars to their technician for a setup and fret dressing before playing a new guitar.

There are two ways of attaching the string, standard and with a knot locking string to post. The standard method is used by many manufacturers. It is easy to remove strings as well as install them, it is easier for the strings to slip out of tune on guitars with tremolos. Locking a string to the post requires an accurate technique which secures the string. This method is used by major manufacturers like Maton, Martin, and Gibson.