Rittor Music Electric Guitar Mechanism (New Edition)

This is an essential guide for guitarists, thoroughly unraveling the "structure" of the electric guitar!

[The Bible for Professionals and Enthusiasts]
This "classic book," which has garnered strong support not only from those aspiring to become guitar builders and repairmen, but also from guitarists who want to deeply understand their own instruments, is now available in a long-awaited new edition!

[A complete guide to the structure of electric guitars]
This book thoroughly dissects every mechanism that makes up an electric guitar, from the neck and body to the wood used, various parts, strings, and electrical circuits. It covers everything from basic structure to professional-level knowledge.
[Playing, repairing, and creating – everything is covered]
This book condenses practical and universal know-how, covering everything from routine adjustments and maintenance to troubleshooting, parts replacement, and wiring modifications (circuit customization).

[Written by Yutaka Takeda, founder of the Sonic brand]
Author Yutaka Takeda, who enjoys immense trust from professional musicians, generously shares his years of knowledge.

[A comprehensive 256 pages]
This large-format book features numerous color photographs and easy-to-understand structural and wiring diagrams. It's a substantial volume that's easy to keep on your desk or workbench for reference, and it's also a satisfying addition to any collection.

This definitive edition is brought to you by Rittor Music, which has produced numerous music books, including the specialist magazine "Guitar Magazine."
Those who play, those who repair, and those who make.
For all guitarists.
Understanding the structure—the mechanism—of a guitar makes it even more interesting.

■Author Profile: Yutaka Takeda
Representative of Ramtrick Company. Since its founding in 1983, he has personally produced over 1,600 Sonic guitars and basses. From around 1990, he also contributed to hard-rock articles in Guitar Magazine and other publications, writing books such as "Electric Guitar Mechanism," "Complete Edition of Electric Guitar Mechanism," and "Guitar Magazine Maintenance Book." In 2018, he released "Electric Bass Mechanism."

■Specifications: A4 modified size / 256 pages

【CONTENTS】
■Chapter 1 The Origins of the Electric Guitar
1. The History of the Electric Guitar
2. Major Electric Guitar Models ■Chapter 2 About Wood
1. Basic knowledge of wood, names of woods, wood as a resource, the structure of wood, and the properties of wood.
2. Wood Graph

■Chapter 3 Basics of Maintenance
1. About Tuning: History of Tuners, String Length Correction (Octave Tuning)
Equal temperament and just intonation; Hertz and cents
2. String replacement procedure
3. Regarding screws: Inches and metric; Wood screws; Wood screws and screw holes; Repairing/filling screw holes; Broken screw problems; Filling large holes

■Chapter 4 Neck
1. Neck material and fretboard material
2. Head section, head structure and shape, various aspects of machine heads, machine head model-specific explanations, string retainer
3. Nut & Grip Section, Nut Material, Roller Nut, Lock Nut, Nut Installation Method
• Neck width • Grip shape
• Fingerboard radius, frets, scale
4. Truss rods, bent rods, other truss rods, two-way truss rods, how to adjust truss rods, and troubleshooting truss rods.
5. Neck problems and repairs: Neck warping, how to check the neck, nut maintenance, nut replacement, fretboard maintenance
- Fret-related maintenance - Fret leveling (filing)
- Fret replacement - Fret lifting - Neck thinning - PLEK (precision retrieval)
- Repair of broken head

■Chapter 5 Body
1. Joint section: Set neck, through neck, detachable neck (bolt-on)
• Maintenance of the joint section
2. Body Structure: Full Acoustic, Solid Body, Semi-Acoustic
• Semi-solid body • New material body
3. Painting, types of paint, painting procedure, polishing finish, body color, refinishing
4. Pickup Assembly and Cavity Installation of pickups and electrical components, cavity machining.
5. Bridges - All about bridges - Bridge installation methods - Bridge maintenance
- Bridge adjustment
6. Strap pin
7. Pickguard

■Chapter 6 About Guitar Strings: History of Electric Guitar Strings, Various Types of Guitar Strings, Coated Strings, Gauge, Ball End, Tension

■Chapter 7 Electric
1. Basic knowledge of electricity: Voltage/Current/Power, DC and AC, Hot/Cold/Earth, Calculation of combined resistance and combined capacitance
2. Pickups: Magnetic pickups, single-coil pickups, humbucking pickups, replacement pickups, magnets and wires, coil impregnation, low-impedance pickups, Alumitone, piezo pickups, electric
3. Pickup Manufacturing Process: Single-Coil Pickups and Humbucking Pickups
4. Electrical components: potentiometers, switches, jacks, capacitors, built-in preamplifiers, and other electrical components.
5. Electrical System Maintenance, Troubleshooting, Soldering Tips, and Noise Reduction
- Pickup repair - Potentiometer repair
- Jack/switch repair - Preamplifier repair - Hollow body electrical system repair

■Chapter 8 Circuit-related modifications
1. Pickup replacement
2. Wiring modifications, balancer pot modification, pot modification, built-in preamp, and how to create original circuits.
3. Circuit modification examples based on pickup layout
4. Wiring diagrams for major models

■Chapter 9
Guitar manufacturing at a manufacturer's factory