The method for adjusting intonation on electric guitars is honestly simple so long as you follow the right procedure.Saga Electric Guitar Kits In the case of acoustic guitars getting the intonation right is a small trickier.

 Once you have established that the intonation needs to be corrected you will need to adjust the bridge of your guitar. The only thing you can do with acoustic guitar set up is change the action until the intonation is as near as possible. You do this by increasing and decreasing the bridge height. This has to be done by experimentation. In the case of electric guitar set up you will need to change the position of the string saddles using a screw driver or hex spanner. The screws you need to turn are the ones that go the string saddle position either towards the neck or away from it. Always make sure that the action of your guitar is set correctly before you make changes to the intonation. If you do it the other way round you will have to repeat the intonation changes. Always make sure you adjust the intonation using new strings.
 
The simplest way to set the intonation of your electric guitar is to use an electronic tuner. But, if your sense of pitch is excellent then you can of course do the adjustments by ear alone. The basic technique is to take each string in turn and adjust it until the intonation is right. You will need a screwdriver to adjust Gibson style saddles and a small hex key for fender style guitars. In both cases make sure that the right size and style of tool is used as the screw heads can easily be hurt. 
 
Start with the bass E string and work across to the high E string. The first thing to do is to tune the string up accurately. You should then play the harmonic note at the 12th fret. This should be the same note as the open string but an octave higher. If it is not then you will have to tune the string again. Once this is right, you need to play the actual note at the 12th fret. Make sure that you fret carefully. Don’t fret too hard or bend the string up or down as this will change the note slightly making the intonation judgment hard. Light, even pressure is needed when fretting the string. The harmonic note and actual note at the 12th fret should be exactly the same.

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For the E string they should both be accurate E notes. If the intonation on that string is out, you need to use the screw driver or hex key to go the string saddle one way or the other. Go it just a small way and then check the harmonic and 12th fret note again. You will have to re tune the string to do this. You should notice that the 2 notes will have either went closer to each other or have gone more out of tune. If they are nearer to being in tune then you are screwing the saddle screw the right way. If the notes are further out of tune than before then you are turning the screw the incorrect way. You need to start turning the screw in the opposite direction.

You should therefore continue to turn the screw a small at a time in the right direction and check the two notes each time until they are identical tuning. The intonation of that string is therefore set and you can go on to the next string which is the A string. You should repeat the procedure until the intonation of each string is set. At the end, you can have a quick check through all of the strings to make sure that they are all still set correctly.  

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There is really a huge amount of variation in the design and construction of an electric guitar – far more than the diverse range of classical or acoustic guitars.

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The variations are in a part of the guitar which might otherwise be considered as certain and absolute – the body. For an electric guitar the body itself may be hollow, as in the style of a classical or acoustic guitar. But, it could also be only partially hollow, and in many cases is entirely solid.

This is largely because of the fact that, unlike classical or acoustic guitars which rely on the hollow body of the guitar to reverberate and resonate the sound made from the string, an electric guitar relies on an electric amplifier to achieve this same resonance and sound, and the construction of the body is largely, though not entirely, irrelevant in terms of sound quality and resonance. Without the electronic amplifier and equipment connected to the electric guitar, the instrument makes very small sound on its own, and unlike an acoustic or classic guitar, cannot be played without electric amplification.

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Fitted to the electric guitar are electromagnets which pick up the vibrations of the strings as movement, and this vibration or resonance is transmitted to the amplifier as an electrical signal. It is therefore the physical resonance or vibration of the string which is used to transfer a signal, and not the sound of the string being struck at all which generates the sound, or at least, not in a direct way.

In many cases the electrical signal from the electromagnetic pickup is transmitted through a cable directly to the amplifier, but in some cases this is done through radio waves, allowing the guitar to be played without any trailing cables – particularly useful for those who tend to go about a lot while playing their music. The fact that the guitar is being played without any direct cable connection to an amplifier or sound equipment should not be confused with an acoustic or classic guitar in any way – the amplifier is still necessary as the guitar on its own would make virtually no sound at all, and certainly nothing even remotely approaching that of an acoustic guitar.

Because of the fact that the signal from the electric guitar is fed electronically to the amplifier, it is often the case that other means are used to convert or modify the signal, providing extra tones, or effects that make unique voices for the guitar. Although often we tend to reckon of the guitar as being solely a part of rock music or pop music, in fact it has a very healthy heritage borne through the jazz and blues scene, and has managed to hold on to its status throughout these three main genres of jazz, blues and rock.

The commercialization of the electric guitar occurred in two places at pretty much the same time, with Gibson working alongside Les Paul, at the same time as the extremely well known Leo Fender was developing the commercial model of the Fender. The physical structure of the body of an electric guitar is what is most striking as it is very different from the design of an acoustic guitar. But the fret board is also quite different too, because of the height of the strings from the body of the guitar itself. In an acoustic guitar, the strings are very close to the body, so that they run very close to the edge of the hole in the center of the body, but in an electric guitar this proximity is not required for the simple reason that the body of the guitar is not used to amplify or resonate the sound produced at all.

Because the strings are further away from the body, this allows the musician to play an electric guitar in different ways from that of an acoustic or classic guitar, with techniques such as tapping or legato pull-offs being used extensively, and slurs – otherwise known as hammer-ons as well as pitch harmonics, swells of the volume and in many cases an arm which makes a tremolo effect. It is not unusual to see foot pedals being incorporated into the performance too.

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