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Anybody know a rod-adjustment tutorial for fenders?
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dave - just make quarter to half turns of the truss rod in slow increments. it turns intuitively - i.e. you want to turn it to the left to loosen the rod and put a slight outward bow in the neck.
Keep tension on the strings - just leave them in tune.
DO NOT crank on it, or give the truss rod full turns at a time, or else you can run the risk of snapping the neck, or cracking along the truss rod.
And, how are you setting the intonation?
A common way to do it is to plug into a tuner, and tune the guitar. Then, hit the 12th fret on each string, and adjust the saddles to tune to the 12th fret.
Keep tension on the strings - just leave them in tune.
DO NOT crank on it, or give the truss rod full turns at a time, or else you can run the risk of snapping the neck, or cracking along the truss rod.
And, how are you setting the intonation?
A common way to do it is to plug into a tuner, and tune the guitar. Then, hit the 12th fret on each string, and adjust the saddles to tune to the 12th fret.
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it's my D in a B
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From: Your Mom's House
dave - just make quarter to half turns of the truss rod in slow increments. it turns intuitively - i.e. you want to turn it to the left to loosen the rod and put a slight outward bow in the neck.
Keep tension on the strings - just leave them in tune.
DO NOT crank on it, or give the truss rod full turns at a time, or else you can run the risk of snapping the neck, or cracking along the truss rod.
And, how are you setting the intonation?
A common way to do it is to plug into a tuner, and tune the guitar. Then, hit the 12th fret on each string, and adjust the saddles to tune to the 12th fret.
Keep tension on the strings - just leave them in tune.
DO NOT crank on it, or give the truss rod full turns at a time, or else you can run the risk of snapping the neck, or cracking along the truss rod.
And, how are you setting the intonation?
A common way to do it is to plug into a tuner, and tune the guitar. Then, hit the 12th fret on each string, and adjust the saddles to tune to the 12th fret.
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Shake n Bake!
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Had a friend set up the strat, plays beautiful now.
Next step is to lose the pickguard (I hate them to begin with). I found one I really like that I can have customized to have 1 volume knob and a toggle pup switch.. lookin at this:
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Guitar in question:
leaning towards the smoked mirror.. or just black?
Halp?
Next step is to lose the pickguard (I hate them to begin with). I found one I really like that I can have customized to have 1 volume knob and a toggle pup switch.. lookin at this:
or
Guitar in question:
leaning towards the smoked mirror.. or just black?
Halp?
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Shake n Bake!
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From: Pittsburgh, PA
its smoked mirror or mirror.. unless you checked out the other guards?
http://www.wdmusic.com/pickguard_st_200.html
http://www.wdmusic.com/pickguard_st_200.html
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Shake n Bake!
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Traded my old Washburn body for some rackmount gear.. a Digitech Twin Tube GFX1 and a 27 band EQ. Also getting a used rack case out of the deal as well. Traded to a friend who has his own mini-guitar museam at his place.
Also have a hot chick auditioning in 2 weeks for vocals.. and she can do electric/acoustic/keys - her style = Evanescence/new Nightwish.
Also have a hot chick auditioning in 2 weeks for vocals.. and she can do electric/acoustic/keys - her style = Evanescence/new Nightwish.
Last edited by DarkStarr; Apr 28, 2009 at 01:47 PM.