What do you check before sending out a guitar?
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:45 pm
In short: What quality checks on a guitar do you make before sending them out the door or pronouncing them done?
When deciding if I've finished an acoustic guitar I'll go over it a look for around 15 things related to musicality, playability and quality. I thought I'd turn that checklist into a guide that others can use to evaluate instruments. I aimed this as a guide to explain to someone looking to buy a guitar what to look for. There's a lot of text, too much for this post. So here is the list below and you can check out more here: intermediate acoustic guitar guide
The list that I go through is:
Top quality , back and sides quality, tuning ease, bridge pin ease, fretboard buzz, fretboard dead spots, neck shape preference, action preference, measuring stiffness of the top and back, mass consideration, evenness of finish, craftsmanship details, intonation quality, pickup quality.
A lot of this is aimed at an intermediate guitar player level of knowledge so some of the techniques such as the stiffness testing has more detail I can go into. If you do something else that I'm missing please let me know!
When deciding if I've finished an acoustic guitar I'll go over it a look for around 15 things related to musicality, playability and quality. I thought I'd turn that checklist into a guide that others can use to evaluate instruments. I aimed this as a guide to explain to someone looking to buy a guitar what to look for. There's a lot of text, too much for this post. So here is the list below and you can check out more here: intermediate acoustic guitar guide
The list that I go through is:
Top quality , back and sides quality, tuning ease, bridge pin ease, fretboard buzz, fretboard dead spots, neck shape preference, action preference, measuring stiffness of the top and back, mass consideration, evenness of finish, craftsmanship details, intonation quality, pickup quality.
A lot of this is aimed at an intermediate guitar player level of knowledge so some of the techniques such as the stiffness testing has more detail I can go into. If you do something else that I'm missing please let me know!