Friday night and I decided enough was enough with some of the issues I had with some of the fenders.So I decided to check the intonation, truss rod and see what was what.
Basically all you need is the appropriate allen key for the bridge, or philips, and then a business card which you can use on the 6th fret once the first and twelve are held down on the low E.
To intonate, get a harmonic on the 12th fret strings and get a reading on a guitar tuner.Then fret the same note on the twelve and see if you get any difference.Ajust suitably.
Simple and the results are always positive.
Keep in mind the vintage trem blocks also move when tuning, so that has to be adjusted as well to your requirements.Quite a good tip with regards the corrct adjustment is that you should be able to double bend a note without the trem blcok moving and the note underneath once played directly after the bend should be okay.
Once again, it takes time and of course its fun to work on.
Solder iron came out to sort out a volume pot on the 77 fender strat which has a 73 body, i'll post pics soon.
I decided to rewire the strat with an Eric Johnson set up which is to say the tone pots effect the bridge and neck but leave out the middle pot.
The Mr Horsepower Telecaster needed to also have a 78 tone pot stuck in and the 3 way switch resoldered as something wasn't right.I used a 65 wiring diagram for that.
This week I'll post pics of the most recent projects which include the Sami Mk III which is an incredible guitar.
The schecter iroko bodied strat with the mastertone and thinskin 59 custom shop pups will also be posted.
On the way are two tone caps, a tbx switch, a no-load switch and some vintage wire.
Building a 62RI which should be interesting.
Also this week I'll be looking at audio interface soundcards as its time to get some chords and stuff recorded.
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