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Rob Laing

Set up your electric guitar: how to adjust action, truss rod, string height and radius, pickup height and clean your fingerboard and frets

Guitar setup.

Getting your guitar set up and maintained properly is vital to playing well and sounding great. If your guitar strings can’t resonate and intonate properly you’re automatically at a disadvantage. So let’s get your electric guitar set up for a great year of playing – with the right tools and approach, it’s easier than you might think.

We’re going to take the process in manageable stages to cover string changes, fretboard and fret cleaning, guitar body cleaning, truss rod adjustment, string height and intonation, plus pickup height. All these factors affect how well your guitar plays; and different guitars will need different approaches that we’ll explain.

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