It doesn't matter how well-honed your guitar chops are, the way your instrument is set up will have a huge effect on how ...

Heavier strings will pull more on the guitar neck, which can cause the action (string height) to go too high, whereas a lighter gauge doesn’t pull as much, resulting in an action that’s too low.

Electric guitar pickups are simple devices – just a magnet for each string wrapped in thousands ... Check out a video of [Pete]’s coil winder in action after the break.

Looking for an entry into slide playing but don't want to retune your guitar and give it a setup? This tab and audio lesson ...

Strip the end of a 12", 22-gauge piece of wire and pass it through ... Now, install the neck. Install the guitar strings and check alignment over the neck and pickups. You may need to loosen ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...

Acoustic Guitar 80/20 Bronze Strings Ultra-thin coating, keeping gunk out of the gaps between the windings Extended Tone Life Consistent performance and tone, Reduced finger squeak Smooth feel ...

You can see here the hammer is hitting really thick strings. So that is a pianoand you play a piano with keys. But what about otherstring instruments? A guitar works by either pluckingthe strings ...

My 20-gauge test gun weighed exactly 6 pounds. Its 30-inch barrels caused it to balance well ahead of the action’s hinge ... denser shot string, resulting in greater energy downrange.