Content FAQ

Q. So you drew and wrote all of this by hand?

A. Yep—with the exception of the (exact same) copyright information and title text—every page, image, and word was drawn by me. Actually, the script in the titles is a digitised version of my handwriting.

Q. Why would you do such a thing?

A. Because I'm apparently some sort of masochist. I type things now—the last time I wrote this much was when I was in school and my hand's not used to it any more.

Basically, this was a crazy idea that occurred as I was making notes for the first Sketchy Setups. Hand-drawn guides seemed like they would be a more fun, friendly, and accessible way in for people new to doing their own setups.

Q. How do you do it?

A. Partly old-school and partly, erm… new-school. All the pages are hand-drawn with pencils. Then, they’re inked with black ink before being scanned into the computer. Once in, the pages are cleaned up and coloured digitally. Finally, they’re packaged up as a PDF and are ready to be absorbed into the minds of eager, guitar and bass setter-uppers.



Q. Can I just buy one guide and use the information for a different guitar?

A. Well, sort of. It depends a little.

While the ‘concepts’ for some steps will be common across a number of instruments, the practicalities of *how* you perform these steps often differs.

If you’re confident transposing steps from one type of hardware to another then sure, just get one guide.

However, the purpose of these guides is to make setups *easy* and that might not be the case if you’re trying to apply your Gibson’s bridge information to your Strat’s tremolo.

And of course, if you've only got a Tele, just buy the Tele book — that's the reason there are separate guides.



Q. So, is there some information overlap between the guides?

A. Yes—like I said above, the ‘concepts’ for certain steps are certainly similar across many instruments and, if you buy all the guides, you will see an amount of familiar information in each.

However, each guide contains specific information relevant to its subject instrument that can really help you get to grips with it much more easily than ‘generic’ information could.