I've been to a lot of thrifts stores and have seen so many sweet old and cool guitars for very cheap prices but of course they always have huge flaws; for example the action is ridiculously high, the intonation is off, they have fret buzz and dead notes. I've thought about buying a few of them but figured it wouldn't be worth it to have to pay to get them set up considering it would probably cost more than the actual guitars themselves. Then I thought about how cool it would be to actually learn how to set them up for myself and keep some, and sell some to make some profit.
Does any one here have any experience with setting up guitars? If so is it fairly easy to learn how to do? Anyone know any good books, videos, magazines, websites, etc that show a step by step process on guitar set up for fixing frett buzz, intonation, lowering the action etc? How do I know where to start? For example: If I want to fix fret buzz on a guitar how do I know whether or not there is a problem with the nut or the bolt or if the truss rod needs to be adjusted? BTW acoustic steel string guitars is what I would be focusing on.
Does any one here have any experience with setting up guitars? If so is it fairly easy to learn how to do? Anyone know any good books, videos, magazines, websites, etc that show a step by step process on guitar set up for fixing frett buzz, intonation, lowering the action etc? How do I know where to start? For example: If I want to fix fret buzz on a guitar how do I know whether or not there is a problem with the nut or the bolt or if the truss rod needs to be adjusted? BTW acoustic steel string guitars is what I would be focusing on.