Electric guitar maintenance and setup - Who can you recommend?

[Mark1066]

I have never seen so much terrible advice all in one place. And from people who claim to have half a century of experience, which makes it a whole lot worse.

 

The information about tuners is total nonsense. Virtually all cheap clip-on tuners have a chromatic mode nowadays (in addition to other modes) and whichever mode you choose, it will not affect the sensitivity of the tuner. How could it? Just absolute rubbish. Of course the nut can affect more than open strings. If it is too high, the 1st 2nd and 3rd fretted notes will almost certainly sound sharp when you fret them.

 

It's not physically impossible for the 12th fret to be perfect and for there to be intonation issues at other points of the neck either. In fact it's almost guaranteed to a certain degree as the guitar uses equal temperament tuning. They can only ever be relatively in tune and never perfectly (although it is not normal for all the fretted notes to be sharp of course).