A VALUE guitar SET UP right PLAYS GREAT! Harley Benton TE20 

Very useful video!

The best laid out and simplified presentation on this subject I've seen so far, thank you!

Brilliant video - saved to a playlist - thank you!

Yet another really great and informative video. Please keep ‘em coming.

Thank you! Very helpful.

1mm at the 12th fret and clean is a sign of a great guitar 😎

That’s a brilliantly helpful video Mike. I’ve been playing for years and I learnt a thing or two.

I really appreciate this video, and your take/way of doing a setup. I have developed some skills in this area, but intonation is one that I struggle with. Everyone else that I have watched or listened to have seemed to refer to more of like two small left and right “ladders,” (my words): with the right starting up about 3/4 of the way up the left. When you said that you look more for a continuous arc, that resonated with me, so I picked up a new guitar that I have just gotten, and it is amazing how much better it sounds after looking at the intonation setup that way. Thanks very much! That helped a lot, along with a couple more of your tips, such as checking on relief. On another subject, that red Tele looks good, and I don’t have a Telecaster; darn, I thought I had bought my last guitar for a while.😆

FANTASTIC! Thank you SO much for this video. It's great to hear that these HB guitars will allow for a lower setup. I'm now going to purchase a Tele style and a LP style (when it's back in stock). Also thank you for going in depth on how to setup a guitar. Awesome video! And the tip on using older broken in strings while doing the setup is super valuable. Thanks again.

Cheers Mike, very informative.

Great show , thanks for the information. I've been wanting to try my own set ups. Just wasn't sure on the how. Thanks again. Stay safe.

Great vid. I've got bargains on great guitars that they couldn't shift in the shop for want of an easy set up. Getting a set of compensated barrels for less than a tenner will help with the intonation :) cheers

Trained by the best 🤘 Great video Mike

Thanks for the help. I bought an HB t20 and lowered the action which was too high. I'm scared of truss rods so I left that alone. My intonation was spot on after lowering the action. I was lucky I suppose. Right got to get back to open G and being Keith for a couple of hours.

Great video.👍🏻👍🏻

A beautiful guitar with a tone well above the price tag. Great video and greeting from Germany. :)

Amazing video. So simply explained and has now helped me decide on next purchases and how to improve my current collection. I assume to lower strings on my acoustic I simply sand down the bone little by little

Great video Mike. A tip I picked up from John Suhr is to intonate using the 3rd and 15th fret. Takes the nut slot height out of the equation and improves overall intonation, especially on the 3 saddle bridges

Nice!

Superb

good points

Great video! Have a nice day!

Nicely explained Mike. This will be a great reference video for folks! I would agree with the request for floating a bridge setup. While I can get it done it seems I don't hit the mark easy enough. Thank you sir! later

ah yes! I get my share of this and then some lol good work mate!

Great 👍

Ah Mike... miss ya, man

Nicely explained!! I expect that we all do things a little differently and I'm not sure if there is a 'perfect' way to do it, but I do mine similar to you except that when I do my Action adjustments, I start with the nut. The use of a capo (12th fret) can take the saddle height out of the equation (for the most part) and once the nut is set up correctly (to my taste) then I do the saddle heights. I guess it's all 'swings and roundabouts' though :) These HB's are great guitars, a year on from receiving my TE-40 TBK Deluxe Series and I still have trouble putting it down and going to bed at night!!

You did a great job on that thing Mike! Really tho, to get it really GOOD, a fret level is mandatory!

That tuner is more expensive than the HB Te20..nice video though and very informative. Because you mentioned the high frets issue, that may need a fret level and is a job for a luthier and a simple setup wouldn't solve it. Thank you, cheers!

Your way of checking relief is how I do it, elbow on last fret 👍

That's a beautiful tele

Living in the Uk here. When I first got the guitar 2 days ago it was flawless. A few days later I have noticed alot of buzz. Frets are fine, I'v changed the strings, set up the intonation and adjusted the truss rod but I'm still getting buzz. Could it have been something I have done wrong? Action is about 2mm on the low E and still buzz. I can't loosen the truss rod anymore because im getting a bit of resistance from it. Maybe I have set it up wrong? Would leaving it until the next day after a truss rod adjustment work? It only seem's to be when I play it any harder than a light touch with finger picking, if I use a pick it seems to buzz, most around a and d strings. Any tip? Because im in love with this guitar and I don't want to send it back

I’ve had a few guitars come with 5-6mm off the neck ! No wonder I’m struggling to press the strings and cutting my fingers

Only thing I would add to your incredibly useful video, is that measurement gauges are cheap enough and should be used if at all possible. Leaving it to feel and ballpark adjustments can lead to inconsistencies while playing.

What about checking the string height at the nut?

Hi Mike, i will the TE-20 a Little upgrade i have buy Rollerstringtrees, Bonenut and Brasssattles and i dont now to Change the Pickups or not, what do you think are the best Pickups for a Tele? LG Detlev

Good tips. Did you get any issues with string choke on bends with a 1mm action.

Hi, is your channel still active? I haven't seen anything more than a year ago. Love your channel shame if it's not active. Best wishes.

You can go wrong with intonation, especially on cheap guitars with possibly lesser metal, stripping the adjustment screw when trying to lengthen the scale. Loosening the string before adjusting its length will avoid this. Cumbersome but safer.

Great review just one thing, when you said about the bottom E needing the saddle taking back to make it exactly halfway as in lengh, surely that's wrong. When completing the intonation and all the saddles are staggered there all different lengths. So have they got to be harmonicly halfway? Is that right? Cheers Martyn

They get better by the day...soon the EU vintage..great value for money

Good vid! I would say not to use rusty plain steel treble strings for checking intonation, so don't use strings that are too old of course!

6:47 - Another tip... Unlike the shot here,, the saddles should always be flat, otherwise strumming or heavy playing will 'tip' the saddle, which can cause rattling and other issues longer term. Yes, it won't match the neck relief so well, but that's another sacrifice with this type of poor bridge design.

Something EVH lived by... set it up right and you can get a guitar playing right! Next one... Floyd Rose decked and floating aet-ups?

Frets are really low/small :( Refretting costs more than a guitar. It's a pity because it's a nice base for upgrades

Did U lower the pickups Mike?

15:18. Yep, who cares about the odd bum note, all part of that Tele sound :).

Sorry but this is incomplete. You’ve missed out NUT ACTION. Most poorly setup guitars need this lowered. It doesn’t matter how well all other components are adjusted. A high nut action makes a guitar awful to play at the low end of the neck. First fret action measurement and nut groove filing should be integral to any basic setup instruction.

What a terrible tuner :D