KDG Electric Setups

We all play differently

Styles, attack, etc so your guitar should be setup to your own personal tastes not mine,
I'm constantly hearing about clients whose previous experiences have been dictated by other repairers. Could you imagine a hair salon running a business like that?
It's all about getting it right for you.

Factory spec actions: By popular brands

String action is generally measured in 64ths of an inch, from the top of the 12th fret.

This is due to the big brands being American therefore using the imperial system.

Normally you have action even across and sometimes a little more height on the bass side. 

Shredder (3-3) 

Fender Strat (4-4)

Gibson Les Paul (5-3)

Taylor acoustic guitars (6-5)

Martin acoustic guitars (7-5)

Fender jazz bass (7-6) 

The KDG - Standard Setup

Clean fret-wire (remove oxidization)

Oil fingerboard (rehydrate the board)
Hardware (tighten and lube moving parts)
Restring (install and stretch in the strings)
Truss rod (adjusted to strings gauge tension)
Nut height (optimize heights and file nut slots)
Bridge radius (match the fingerboard curve to the bridge saddles)

Action (saddle height) (tune-o-matics and other bridges without individual saddle adjustment notched / filed for correct height and string gauge)

Intonation (with Peterson strobe tuner) scroll down for more
Pickup heights (balance for tone and volume)
Electronics tested and cleaned (faulty electronics not cover in this price)

KDG Standard Setup (Electric, Bass, Fixed Bridge) From $90.00

Extras / Upgrade Your Setup

Have a Floyd Rose Tremolo / Or Floating Tremolo

Floyd Rose Extras

Zero Tremolo (Adjust tremolo spring tension to be parallel to the face of guitar body)  

Nut heights (also ground or shimmed depending on adjustment required) 

Bridge radius (match the fingerboard curve to the bridge saddles, ground to perfect radius)  

Tremolo action height (Set the string heights or in a Stratocasters case the amount of back pull on the tremolo)

Lube Hardware (and all moving parts)(locking blocks lubed and adjusted to move freely inside the saddle) 

ADD a Floyd Rose to your Standard Setup from $45. - $90.

Buzzing? Crap Action?

Factory frets generally are not leveled once installed, and can have uneven heights, when this happens your action and playability suffers.

A fret-level gives you perfect precision leveled fret heights.
re-crown with diamond coated crowning files for perfect crown tip for the best possible intonation.

The KDG - Fret-level / Deluxe Setup

Level your frets. Improves intonation, fret-wear & removes high / low frets for a better action

Mask (Prepare neck - clean then mask fingerboard to protect it)

Fret-level (precision ground)(Also known as fret dress, fret shave, fret stone)
Re-crown 4 stage process, (file, sand 600, 800, 0000 steel wool)
Machine Buffed (w/ Menzerna residue-free compound as used by Fender, Gibson)
Hand Polished (to perfection removes any buffing compound)

ADD the KDG Deluxe Setup to your Standard Setup

(Bolt on necks) - from $180. (Set necks) - from $200.               

(Floating Tremolo / Floyd Rose) $180. - $225.

(Don't forget your gauge of Dunlop string from $15 per set)

It's not in tune till it's intonated with a Peterson Strobe