Restring & Setup Pack

What changes when you change strings, and how to set the guitar up around it

What changes when you change something, in numbers. Total string tension by set and scale, what a gauge or tuning change does to it, relief and action and nut targets, the truss rod bands, and the symptom-to-cause table. Then the claim every setup guide makes and none of them computes: why intonation moves when the action does. Fretting stretches the string, the stretch goes as the square of the action, and a millimetre of action costs a millimetre of saddle. Including why the plain G is the hardest string to intonate and why a high nut is worse than a high saddle. 10 pages, printable, with a fill-in setup record.

Look inside

Two full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.

What is in it

• Total pull for five common sets across four scale lengths
• Where it goes, string by string, for a reference set
• Exactly what every tuning change does — figures that are exact, not fitted
• What each gauge step adds, and whether the truss rod needs touching
• The one gauge step that cancels a whole step down, and the two that overshoot
• Relief, action and nut clearance targets by instrument and by how hard you play
• How far the saddle moves for an action change, and why it is twice
• Truss rod bands: when to leave it, when to turn, and when to stop
• Eight symptoms read back to the adjustment that caused them
• The setup sequence, with the reason each step sits where it does
• How sharp fretting makes each string, at five different actions
• The saddle movement that cancels it — string by string, in millimetres
• Why gauge makes NO difference to intonation, and pitch makes all of it
• Why the plain G is the hardest string to intonate, in numbers
• Why a high nut is worse than a high saddle, fret by fret
• When to stop and take it to a technician
• Fill-in setup record: measured before, target, and after

The pack complements the free calculators — they do the arithmetic, it carries the figures and the setup they cannot know.