Abstract: This article focuses on some simple and often overlooked steps that can be taken to make your guitar play better. What does “play better” mean? Better feel, better response, better tone, and a better show.

Abstract: Top wood bending on guitars with high tension strings has been observed and patches as well as manufacturing ideas for a possible solution of the problem have been proposed.

Abstract: A more versatile, stronger, customizable, reliable, inexpensive guitar made out of metal may easily be manufactured. The principle “hardware as software” can be applied to the guitar too, in this case, the principle would be “guitar as software”. I addition, a fully assemblable, foldable and adjustable neck can be manufactured. High resolution of adjustability can be achieved by teeth locking gears on the neck joint.

Abstract: A technique of fast picking with a cylindrical pick where the angle of turning is has been experimented with. The technique produced a significant improvement in the speed and accuracy of playing without sacrificing the sound volume. A new pick design has been proposed.

Abstract: A loose guitar neck has been successfully, strongly, steadily and reliably repaired by carefully positioning a thin and long woodscrew. Machine screw can also be used.

Abstract: Okay, so you want to buy a new guitar, and you heard from a friend that there's a really good one out there, but when you look at it, the guitar has a different setup than the one you're already using. Should you still go ahead and buy it, or walk away and get something else? This Article should hopefully help you with that.

Abstract: This is a grey area for a lot of people. You've tuned your guitar up using a tuner but the notes still don't sound quite right, so what can be wrong with it? The answer is intonation. In this lesson I will show you how to intonate your guitar where it is a fixed or floating bridge in very simple and easy to follow steps.

Abstract: How to control feedback from an amplifier is a problem that almost every rock/metal/blues player will come up against, so I'm going to do my best in this lesson to show you how to keep this problem under control, especially in a live situation.

Abstract: Some information on the difference between active and passive pickups and a few myths busted on the subject.

Abstract: A little insight to a slightly bi-polar piece of guitar hardware.