Guitar Tech Course

Welcome to Jim’s Guitar Workshop’s Guitar Tech Courses.

My Guitar Tech Course is a one-day (10am til approx 5pm) course that goes through all aspects of guitar setup and maintenance. Courses are typically held on a Sunday, towards the end of each month.

If you can’t travel to Leeds and are instead looking for courses in Manchester, Birmingham or London then check out my sister website for tech classes coming to those places in 2024!

FAQ’s

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? £140
WHAT’S THE LOCATION? Oulton Institute, 5 Quarry Hill, Oulton, Leeds, LS26 8SX
WHAT TYPE OF GUITAR CAN I BRING? Electric, acoustic or bass are all fine!
WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING? Yourself, your guitar, a new pack of strings and your lunch!
WHAT TIME SHOULD I ARRIVE? We start at 10am, so arrive for 9:50am latest.
IS THERE PARKING? yes, there is a car park at the side, or you can park on the road.
WHAT DO YOU PROVIDE? A bench and all the tools and equipment you will need (If you’re looking to buy your own tools you can check out what tools I use in my guitar tech tools list).

COURSE CONTENT

The course is aimed at guitar players with any level of knowledge of their instrument. There are no stupid questions (and hopefully no silly answers) and I’ll be on hand all day to answer any queries you have. We’ll start with some basic discussion of how and why guitars are made and work the way that they do. This will include:

Guitar strings
The neck, fingerboard & frets
The body
Tuning pegs/machine heads (call ’em what you will)
The nut
The truss rod
The bridge (fixed or tremolo systems)
Pickups
Volume and tone controls

We’ll discuss string gauge, action, intonation, nut height and lots more – pretty much everything that I include in my FULL BEANS SETUP

Once we’ve gone over the design of the electric guitar and covered some of the more common variations, we’ll get onto the setup of YOUR guitar. One by one I’ll go around the class and work through the various stages of inspection, setup and restringing of each guitar in the room, explaining exactly what we’re doing as I go along. This means that as well as your own guitar, you’ll learn about the other five guitars in the room too – valuable extra knowledge!

If you can’t travel to Leeds and are instead looking for courses in Manchester, Birmingham or London then check out my sister website for tech classes coming to those places in 2024!