A magnetic pickup consists of a permanent magnet with a core of material like alnico or ceramic, wrapped with a coil of several thousand turns of fine enameled copper wire. The vibration of the nearby lightly magnetic strings modulates the flux linki
Every player has had both the pleasure and pain of using a locking trem at one point or another! If you have ever wanted to change your string gauge or tuning, you know how much trouble this can cause. Here is a great setup guide you can use when ins
Tonewoods can also have impart significant qualties to the neck. Understanding how each piece of the guitar comes together, and why each wood is used in each part can be a downright science. Guitar makers can choose woods that create a brighter tone,
Perhaps more significant than neck wood, the fretboard is the place your string launches from. It is the “bridge” on the other side. Fretboard differences are as dramatic as those between a hardtail and a tremolo. Maple: Very bright and dense, Maple
Agathis: Agathis is a 'poor man's mahogany', related to the pine family of woods and grown in many Asian countries. It's cheap, easy to use, and gives consistent and stable results, so it is often used with less expensive instruments. The best way to
Graph Tech's products are all created to be as easy as possible to install. Which means it is the ideal do-it-yourself project. As a DIY project, installing the ghost System is possible to achieve. Although it takes a little more work than our legacy
What are the magical properties that make a quality guitar sound so spine-tingling good? When you strip away the tradition, the romance, and a little luthier voodoo, the answer is firmly grounded in science... Acoustic guitars are fundamentally desig
Setting a guitar's intonation compensates for the fact that you have to stretch the string a little bit toward the fingerboard to fret a note. Just like doing bends, this unavoidable stretch increases the pitch of each note slightly, and compensation
There is never a good time to break a guitar string, especially when you're in the middle of a gig, so you can almost expect it to occur at this worst possible moment. More than just a common annoyance, string breakage can be a confidence buster when
At Graph Tech, we offer over 250 different nut and saddle styles and sizes along with complete customization options for our OEM manufacturers. With so many options, it can get very confusing when it comes to ordering the correct part for your guitar