When should you take your guitar to your Luthier?

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When should you take your guitar to your Luthier? Baxter and Jonathan talk about getting the right setup, tweaking and waiting for your guitar to settle before adjusting that new guitar.
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Let your guitar acclimatize to your environment and play it for a few days before deciding to have a luthier work on it. Having basic set up skills is invaluable and has saved me thousands of dollars over the years. Humidity levels and how you store them are important factors too.

whiskybravo
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I usually recommend customers to bring in their new instruments if they want different strings/tunings from how it was set up from the factory or dealer. I find a lot of people put heavier or lighter strings on from the original set, change the tuning and wonder why the action and intonation is a bit off (or sometimes a lot lol!)

I also recommend them to bring in their instruments before any recording sessions to ensure everything is adjusted correctly (new or used instruments.)

Great video! Lots of good information here.

AugmentGuitars
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This is very solid advice.... from my experience do NOT let anyone touch the nut of your reasonably new Custom Shop guitar unless it is absolutely necessary! 'Luthiers' seem to be a rare species around the area I live in... its more appropriate where I live to say that most 'guitar repairers' that do setups etc arent really trained or expert luthiers, more likely they are well meaning guitar shop dudes having a crack at it to varying degrees of success.

SteveR
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I just found y’all’s channel and it’s the best thing since sliced bread thanks y’all

redlycan
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My morning dose of Casino Guitar information and entertainment, thanks y'all

WayneMemphisMojo
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Great advice! I got a Fender American Professional Strat a year ago that has been perfect! It was good to go straight out of the box!!! I don't want anyone to touch it now, because I don't want it messed up! LOL!!!! Thank guys! Love your vids!

scottreynolds
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We are lucky enough to have one of the greatest living luthiers in our area - Randy Wood, a Nashville legend who came back to Savannah. Randy also makes guitars and mandolins, and they are masterpieces that have been played by other Nashville legends. He even has a 100-seat "Pickin' Parlor" where he hosts world-class musicians and periodic jam sessions for everyone. Randy is a local treasure, for sure.

MattyK-USA
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Like my dad always tells me, "Good is better, better is worse." You can tweak yourself right out of something great.

Smylie_Shot_It
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Could I set up my own guitar? Yes. Can a pro do it way better, way faster, and with much less frustration to me? Absolutely.

joshuahiggins
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So here's the thing, I decided a long time ago that if I was going to own multiple guitars I was going to need to learn how to maintain them. I bought the Erlewine book "The Guitar Players Repair Guide" and that taught me all I need to know. Baxter, to your comment about not being able to get it back to where it was, the key is to take measurements BEFORE you start tweaking. Check and write down the pickup heights, action height, etc. Also, get some basic tools like a fretboard radius gauge and one of those tiny metal rulers to do fine measurements.
The ONLY thing I take my guitars in for these days is when it requires actual physical modification. Like fret work or having nut slots filed down.

MinivanMegafun
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my friend always does this. He says its mostly so the Luthier can check if it needs to be returned. He just pays for the setup to get the "piece of mind" as he says

overdriveguitarchannel
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Worked with a local luthier for 15-20 years, I like a professional set-up on a new guitar, and they know how I like it.

TheWelhaven
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Missed opportunity to talk about PLEK machines vs luthiers. When to PLEK and when not to PLEK?

niczim
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I’m a trained luthier and I wouldn’t tweak an instrument that didn’t need anything done to it. That’s something I learned from my mentor, “do the work that needs to be done.” My bread and butter is sentimental guitars that folks want to see in a playable condition once again. Some of the stuff, people want me to bring so far back from the dead that I think I’m less a luthier and more a coroner. 😂 8:16

AmericanVetMusic
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Shomaker in Burlington NC. Kim will set it up like you wouldn't beleive.

BockwinkleB
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I've had a similar situation with a reverb pedal recently. I bought a super intricate reverb pedal with 8 different types if reverb thinking that more controls would equal better... but I ended up spending tons of time tweaking the sounds and less time playing. I've learned to tweak a little and then play a lot. Feel and listen. Let things grow on you and explore your current situation before moving anything. The more familiar you are with the sound and feel the better equip you are to make the exact changes needed. Love the channel btw

aaronpeacock
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I've found it can take as long as two weeks for a guitar to settle down when put in a new environment, especially set-neck guitars.
Fenders are designed such that my experience finds them a little more robust and resistant to changes.
I'll usually install a new set of the strings I normally use and play it for a couple weeks before even touching any of the adjustments.

hkguitar
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That’s kinda like buying a brand new truck and bringing it into your service guy and have him do a tune-up on it haha! 🤣

TommySG
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I did this with a new Epiphone LP Custom. It played good out of the box, but decided to spend another $150 to take it to one of the best luthiers in town. Now it plays better than those poor display Gibsons in a Guitar Center.

jaxonvictoria
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I’m a luthier in Eastern NC. I constantly tell customers their guitar is fine and I wouldn’t touch a thing. I have too much work already so if something is good I’ll send it back home quick. Some of the them are very specific about how they like the setup so I know off the bat that I’ll have to change something for them. One example, I have some that I change brand new nuts out for bone with a particular string spacing. The Martin guys always come in to get them boned out off the bat.

I have one customer that I swap out the pickups of any new guitar almost immediately because he likes hotrails and quarter pounders no matter what. I’ve tried to tell him “why not have something different?” But he just wants more strats just alike in different colors.

Another customer wants Dunlop 6150 wire on every guitar. It doesn’t matter if is a brand new guitar with perfect frets, he want them replaced.

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