Rittor Music Electric Guitar Mechanism -New Edition- [Book]

A bible for serious guitar players, repairers, and builders

The classic book "Electric Guitar Mechanism," which delves into the structure of the electric guitar in depth, has been completely renewed with a new look.
The original book, released in 1998, was widely recognized as a bible for aspiring guitar builders and repairmen and became a huge bestseller.
This new edition includes significantly more color pages, providing an even clearer explanation of the latest electric guitar mechanisms.
This is a must-have book for electric guitarists, and is of course for those who play guitar, repair guitars, and even those who make guitars.

[CONTENTS]

■ Chapter 1 The origins of the electric guitar
1. History of the Electric Guitar

2. Main electric guitar models

■Chapter 2 About wood
1. Basic knowledge of wood, names of wood, wood as a resource, wood structure, properties of wood

2. Wood Graph

■Chapter 3 Maintenance Basics
1. About tuning, the history of tuners, and string length correction (octave tuning)
・Equal temperament and just intonation ・Hertz and cents

2. String replacement procedure

3. About screws, inch and metric, wood screws, wood screws and screw holes, repairing/filling screw holes, problems with broken screws, filling large holes

■Chapter 4 Neck
1. Neck and fingerboard materials

2. Head section, Head structure and shape, Machine heads, Explanation of machine head models, String retainers

3. Nut & Grip Parts, Nut Materials, Roller Nuts, Lock Nuts, Nut Installation Methods
・Neck width・Grip shape
・Fretboard R, fret scale

4. Truss rods, bent rods, other truss rods, two-way truss rods, truss rod adjustment methods, truss rod problems

5. Neck problems and repairs, neck warping, how to check the neck, nut maintenance, nut replacement, fingerboard maintenance
・Fret-related maintenance ・Fret filing
Fret replacement, loose frets, thin neck, PLEK
- Repair broken head

■Chapter 5 Body
1. Joint: Set neck, through neck, detachable neck (bolt-on)
・Maintenance of joints

2. Body structure: Full acoustic, solid body, semi-acoustic
・Semi-solid body ・New material body

3. Painting, types of paint, painting procedures, polishing finish, body paint color, refinishing

4. Pickup assembly and cavity ・Installation of pickups and electrical parts ・Cavity processing

5. Bridges, bridge details, bridge installation methods, bridge maintenance
・Bridge adjustment

6. Strap pin

7. Pickguard

■Chapter 6 About guitar strings, the history of electric guitar strings, various guitar strings, coated strings, gauge, ball end, tension and tension

■Chapter 7 Electric
1. Basic knowledge of electricity: voltage, current, power, direct current and alternating current, hot, cold, earth, and calculation of combined resistance and combined capacity

2. Pickups Magnetic pickup Single coil pickup Humbucking pickup Replacement pickup Magnet and wire Impregnated coil Low impedance pickup Aluminum tone Piezo pickup Electric

3. Pickup manufacturing process: Single-coil pickups and humbucking pickups

4. Electrical parts, pots, switches, jacks, capacitors, built-in preamps, and other electrical parts

5. Electrical system maintenance, troubleshooting, soldering tips, and noise countermeasures
・Pickup repair ・Pot repair
Jack/switch repair Preamp repair Hollowbody electrical system repair

■Chapter 8 Circuit-related modifications
1. Pickup replacement

2. Wiring modifications, balancer pot modifications, pot modifications, built-in preamplifiers, and how to create original circuits

3. Circuit modification examples for different pickup layouts

4. Wiring diagrams for major models

■Chapter 9
Guitar production at the manufacturer's factory