User Manual Electric Guitar Kit JA Electric Guitar Kit
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Table of contents Table of contents 1 Safety instructions................................................................................................................. 5 2 Scope of delivery..................................................................................................................... 6 3 Assembly instructions.......................................................................................................... 7 3.1 Cutting out headstock.....................................
Electric Guitar Kit JA Electric Guitar Kit
Safety instructions 1 Safety instructions DANGER! Danger for children Ensure that plastic bags, packaging, etc. are properly disposed of and are not in the reach of babies and young children. Choking hazard! Ensure that children do not detach any small parts (e.g. knobs or the like) from the product. They could swallow the pieces and choke! Never let children play unattended with the product.
Scope of delivery 2 Scope of delivery Thank you for buying this guitar assembly kit. All wooden parts, hardware and elec‐ trical components are contained in this package. The following figure shows the individual components of the delivery. The assembly is described in detail in the following sections.
Assembly instructions 3 Assembly instructions Useful tools and materials Provide the following tools and materials for the assembly of the guitar: n n n n n n Phillips screwdriver Rubber mallet Ring wrench Pliers / wire cutter Varnish and accessories Sandpaper Body and neck should by all means be painted before assembly. When applying spray lacquer or paint, you must wear a dust mask. 3.1 Cutting out headstock Design the headstock with a suitable saw to your desired shape.
Assembly instructions Neck finish The guitar neck is sealed with a thin layer of matt lacquer before delivery and is ready to use. If you still want to treat the neck with coloured or clear lacquer, proceed as follows. Carefully mask off the fingerboard and all frets before painting. Make sure that all sur‐ faces are free of dust and dirt. Carry out all painting operations in a well-ventilated, dust-free environment. For the neck, use a clear or slightly tinted wood paint of good quality.
Assembly instructions Turn the neck over and fix all machine heads hand-tight with the supplied washers and nuts on the front of the headstock. Tighten the nuts on the front with a suitable wrench, and then tighten the screws to secure the machine heads on the rear side.
Assembly instructions 3.4 Mounting the string retainer Secure the two string retainers on the front of the headstock in the holes provided next to the machine heads. The string retainer with the larger spacer must be in the hole that is closer to the saddle. Make sure that the string retainers can still move freely. These are only fixed by the tension of the strings. 3.5 Mounting the guitar neck Place the body on a suitable work surface. Use a soft padding to prevent damages to the surface.
Assembly instructions Turn the guitar over, position the mounting plate over the four screw holes on the back of the body and screw the four supplied long wood screws through the holes in the mounting plate into the body and neck until the connection is firm. 3.6 Mounting pickguard and pick-up The pots, switches and output socket are already pre-assembled on the pickguard and only need to be connected to ground. Pickguard and pick-ups need to be bolted to the body.
Assembly instructions Lead the cable out of the hole so that sufficient contact with the metal surface can be achieved when fitting the bridge. String earthing reduces noise (buzzing).
Assembly instructions Using a rubber mallet, hammer the mounting bolts of bridge and tailpiece all the way into the body as shown. Make sure there is sufficient contact between the stripped end of the grounding cable and the bridge bolt.
Assembly instructions Screw the bridge and tailpiece mounting bolts into the bracket. Place the pickguard on the front of the body so that all the wiring is in the recess provided. Screw the pickguard to the body with the screws provided, as shown in the following figure.
Assembly instructions Screw the provided screws into the holes of the two pick-ups. Insert the supplied springs onto the screws of the pick-ups.
Assembly instructions Insert the pick-ups into the recesses and screw the pick-ups to the body. Make sure that the wiring of the pick-ups is placed so far under the pickguard and pads so that they are neither obstructing when screwing the pick-ups nor visible.
Assembly instructions 3.7 Mounting bridge and tailpiece Place the body on a suitable work surface. Use a soft padding to prevent damages to the surface. Put the bridge and the tailpiece onto the mounting bolts. Both components are still loose and are only fixed when stringing the guitar.
Assembly instructions 3.8 Strings, neck relief, string action and pick-ups Stringing 18 Electric Guitar Kit JA Electric Guitar Kit The strings are threaded on the tailpiece and led over the bridge and the string saddle. Thread the strings into the holes of the machine heads, wrap the end of the string a few times around the peg, and then hand-tighten each string. Make sure that the individual strings are in the correct saddle position as well as in the corre‐ sponding string retainer.
Assembly instructions Then tune all the strings in sequence to the correct pitch. You can use a tuner or a pitch pipe as a reference. Note that the string tension will drop a little and the guitar needs to be retuned several times until the strings stay in tune. Shorten the protruding ends of the strings with a wire cutter.
Assembly instructions Adjusting neck relief The neck is equipped with a steel truss rod, with which the neck relief can be adjusted individually to the playing habits. After tuning the strings, check the neck relief by pressing the low E string on the first and twelfth fret. The closer the string is to the fingerboard at the sixth fret, the more noise (buzzing) will be heard when playing the guitar.
Assembly instructions Adjusting string action If the neck has the desired curvature, you can use the two screws on the right and left of the bridge and the screws of the individual string saddles to adjust the position of the strings according to your playing habits. Again, the lower the string action, the easier the strings are to grip, but cause slight background noise when playing the guitar. After setting the string action, you can check the octave intonation of the guitar and readjust if necessary.
Assembly instructions 3.9 Mounting the strap pins Screw the strap pins into the pre-drilled holes in the body as shown.
Protecting the environment 4 Protecting the environment Disposal of the packaging material For the transport and protective packaging, environmentally friendly materials have been chosen that can be supplied to normal recycling. Ensure that plastic bags, packaging, etc. are properly disposed of. Do not just dispose of these materials with your normal household waste, but make sure that they are collected for recycling. Please follow the notes and markings on the packaging.
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