Complete Guitar Repair | Guitar Maintenance and Setup Guide for Acoustic and Electric Instruments | Repair, Restoration, Construction, Adjustment Techniques and Maintencance for Musicians

I'm 65 and I'm getting ready for a different kind of relationship with guitars.I'd like to become a luthier; a very good luthier.As such there's no such thing as enough knowledge.This series is well written and the information is well presented.As it is among the first of its kind I've every owned I can't say it's the best, BUTI would recommend it to anyone who is on my path or just wants to refine theirown instrument(s).

I own a 1974-75 Gibson Super 400. This book showed me the reality of having to send my guitar most likely to the Gibson factory to have the neck reset. The guitar suffered a terrible fall and the neck shifted.I did not realize there was so much that went into the repairing of a guitar. This book is very informative.I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in guitar repair.

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This book is great if you are into BUILDING guitars. But for repair its actually not all that helpfull. Most of the things gone over in this book are about how to make a guitar, which is cool. But not what i was looking for since the title is "guitar repair". But, overall its a good book with usefull information... A bit dated, but still relevant

This is an old book with a new cover and some new data. The thing that's still the same is the table of string lengths and fret placments. Something that might help with the next issue is another table that uses the metric system. Don't replace inches. Just add metric.

This was the first important book on guitar when published in 1978 and most of the repair techniques are still valid but not all. Among the missing are nut fills and how to use gauged nut files. The most glaring omission is how to reset an acoustic guitar neck by steaming the dovetail joint for removal. That’s ok as there are now a ton of articles and videos that cover these and other modern techniques. Although Mr. Kamimoto is still around as of this writing, I’m certain that this will never be updated — again, that’s ok. This is a must-have for anyone interested in the subject of guitar repair or those just curious as to how their instruments are put together.

Mr. Kamimoto is my new Guitar (repair) Hero. He renders straightforward advice, without so much of the "whom I've known and where I've been" B.S. common in many repair guides for this most popular musical instrument on the Planet.

While this book would be a valuable and important addition to any luthier's library, the present Kindle edition is comprised of photographs of the print edition pages, with no control that will allow magnification. The result is tiny printing and photos that are almost impossible to read.This textbook deserves a much better treatment.