OT: Books on guitar setups

[Arno van der Heijden]

I'm looking for good book on guitar setups, so I can setup my own guitars. The book should have a step by step procedure or something like that.
I'm currently looking into two books by Dan Erlewine:

-How to Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great!
-How to Set-Up, Maintain, and Repair Electrics and Acoustics

Are these good? Which one would be better?

[Paul Marossy]

If you play electric only, the first one is good. If you play both, the second one is good as well.

I saw the one for electric guitars in a book store and it has good info on pretty much everything you could think of...

[petemoore]

I believe the name of the book I used is Dan Elrewine Guitar Repair Method.
 I do electric guitar luthiering now, I have two excellent examples of how well this method works. It is as foolproof and easy to understand as any, and will consistantly render the best fret job ever when followed 'well'. It takes an understanding...and analysis...IMO best to do your own neck especially if you feel you understand how, because who knows your necks problems better than you.!!
 For instance a simple truss rod adjustment, done the optimal way [IMO, and others] takes two weeks for the adjustment to 'settle' [the wood takes a while to find it's new shape under the altered stresses] so that re-assesing it's adjustment can be done. From the reports I've heard about scheduling guitar work, two week periods don't occur in the agendas.
 I recommend the diamond crown cutter as opposed to the toothed file...much easier to work with and super hard to keep from gougeing the frets like the file.
 I would read through the part about fret redressing many times, over a period of time...unless like me you've had experience with, and done alot of reading about guitar necks.
 The tricky part IMO is the assessment, analysis Vs/ # of strokes per 'area'...
 After the first job you get a better feel of how many file strokes an 'area' requires. You may be able to get your first fret job as good as successive ones using this method.
 My first redressing was on a 'clone your own' neck, required the removal of ALOT of fret material, but turned out a player...[not much left for next time...the fretboard should have seen more attention before the frets were installed.
 The other two jobs...my Les Paul and Washburn, were not difficult, as they were only 'half bad' [no super big gaps or high or low frets], turned out perfect' both [the LEs Paul for rythm is set up higher than the Stratty Washburn with it's razor sharp low action, a HUGE improvement in tonality, and playability...definitely worth the trouble.
 Fun to read, very well written, excellent method [with the felt tip marker making it super easy to know where to file] follow the straightforeward directions and you can't miss!!!
  Great Book, gets my endorsement anyway !!!

[Arno van der Heijden]

I just bought this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4206625924

[petemoore]

Dan's the Man...