About Us

Hi, I'm Ron and I'm a guitar tech at Rabbit Guitars, doing repairs and set ups for the local musicians in my area in South West London, UK.

This website, Digital Guitar Tech, is the storefront for Rabbit Guitars.

I developed the gauge originally for my own use as an alternative to the (IMO) high priced Stewmac gauge and unwilling to go for the Chinese replicas. Having proved it on my own work-bench at Rabbit Guitars, I’m offering it for use by other techs and luthiers.

Unlike some other similar gauges on sale, mine is fully developed, very effective (see reviews) and comes in a protective foam-lined storage box.

The reviews here are from customers who have bought the gauge on other sites, e.g. eBay.

Answering the internet

An often repeated criticism is that the weight of the plunger deflects the string and so alters the accuracy of the readout. Like many things it is true but - only to a very minor extent. The slider of this gauge weighs 9 grams. At the 12th fret (the worst case), the effect of this on a set of 9 gauge strings alters the zero position by around 0.2mm or 8 thousandths of an inch. And It will be less with heavier strings. Since this is constant from guitar to guitar, it can either be ignored or you could just add 0.2mm to the readout. At the first fret the effect is much less and effectively negligible.

The other point to make is that 0.2mm is much less that the likely error when reading off a string ruler or using feeler gauges. All gauges that have a plunger that rests on the strings are going to suffer from this effect to a similar degree, even the high-end ones. But the advantage of consistent measurements more than outweighs it.

There are many enthusiastic users of digital gauges for measuring action across YouTube: Texas Toast Guitars and Milehouse Studios among them.