Guitar Setups and Fretwork After 20 Years of Experience - Straight Neck & Understring Leveling

Chapters: 0:00 Intro 3:59 Digital Measurements: Tools of the Trade 4:44 Acoustic Setup Standards 5:50 Personal Preference for Acoustics 6:31 Personal Preference for Electrics - Stupidly Low! 7:20 Why So Low? Congenital Thenar Hypoplasia 8:00 Step 1: Neck Relief (Set to Zero) 9:39 Step 2: 12th Fret Action Adjust (Unique Method) 10:30 12th vs 17th Fret for Measuring Action 13:43 Acoustic Saddles: How Much to Shim or Remove? 14:49 Step 3: 1st Fret Action Adjustment 15:27 Step 4: Open 12th Fret Action, Splitting Thousandths 17:07 Step 5: Understring Leveling 19:10 Step 6: Recrown, Polish, Oil & Wax 20:07 Step 7: Play Test 21:39 My Preference for .000" - .002" Relief 22:10 Rectify Master Katana 23:39 Why the Hate for Straight Necks? 25:30 Same Way Every Time (Basically) 26:15 Carving Relief into the Frets? 27:37 Two Ways to Carve Relief into the Frets 29:55 Outro TOOLS: -G-Tech Guitars Digital Neck Relief Gauge -G-Tech Guitars Digital Action Gauge (knock-off of the Rectify Master original Digital Action Gauge) -Rectify Master RM Lite Understring Leveling Beam -Stewmac Fret Bar (knock-off of the Rectify Master original, patented tool) -Rectify Master Katana -Stewmac String Action Gauge