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    How to Set Up a Stratocaster
    How to Set Up a Stratocaster
    How to Set Up a Stratocaster
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    How to Set Up a Stratocaster

    By Tim Vincent

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    How to Set Up a Stratocaster shows you how to get your favorite guitar to play and sound fantastic. Stratocasters are in most ways just like other guitars but their reliance on a spring tremolo and the design of the pickups can make them more difficult to setup. This book shows you in detail how to adjust the guitar to perfection. There are lots of illustrations and the book is easy to follow.

    Make your Stratocaster guitar play and sound the way that you always wanted it to. This book gives you all of the knowledge and skills to allow you to get the most out of your treasured instrument. Why put up with a poor sound when you can find out how to setup action, pickups, tremolo and intonation so that your guitar really stands out and gets the attention you want? Not only will your Stratocaster sound great it will also be fantastic to play.

    Tuning difficulties can be problematic on any type of guitar; however, in the case of the Stratocaster you also have the tremolo system to deal with as well. This means you have to take your time ensuring that all of the mechanical parts of the guitar work together well. This book includes a detailed section on identifying and putting right tuning problems. The pickups on Stratocasters can also be difficult to setup correctly. However, time spent on this task will be well rewarded. Detailed explanations are given on how to get the pickups sounding right. When you start a full setup on a guitar it is important to do things in the right order. How to Set Up a Stratocaster has a natural flow through it which allows you to do things in the correct order. Get the book and start finding the Stratocaster that you really wanted.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTim Vincent
    Release dateJun 14, 2013
    ISBN9781301396306
    How to Set Up a Stratocaster
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    Tim Vincent

    Tim Vincent has been a teacher in schools and a lecturer in a college. He still does some teaching, but now prefers to write books. His main passion is writing and illustrating picture books for children. Over the years he has also been interested in music and in particular playing different musical instruments. His passion is playing guitar, both electric and acoustic versions. As a result of his musical hobbies he has also written book on the care and setting up of guitars and bass guitars.

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      How to Set Up a Stratocaster - Tim Vincent

      How to Set Up a Stratocaster

      By Tim Vincent

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Tim Vincent

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes:

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Disclaimer and Terms of Use: The Author and Publisher has strived to be as accurate and complete as possible in the creation of this book, notwithstanding the fact that he does not warrant or represent at any time that the contents within are accurate due to the rapidly changing nature of science and medicine. While all attempts have been made to verify information provided in this publication, the Author and Publisher assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or contrary interpretation of the subject matter herein. Any perceived slights of specific persons, peoples, or organizations are unintentional. In practical advice books, like anything else in life, there are no guarantees of any results obtained. Readers are cautioned to rely on their own judgment and seek professional medical advice about their individual circumstances and to act accordingly.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      How to Tune a Strat

      Keeping a Strat in Tune

      Action Adjustment

      Setting the Neck Tilt

      Setting the Height of the Pickups

      Adjusting the Tremolo

      Setting the Truss Rod

      Setting Intonation

      Cleaning Strings

      Noisy Controls and Sockets

      Keeping Things Neat and Tidy

      Conclusion

      About the Author

      Introduction

      In the main the Fender Stratocaster guitar is just the same as any other electric guitar and setting it up involves the same kinds of skills. The hardware maybe slightly different but all the parts are recognizable as standard guitar parts such as the bridge, nut and machine heads. As a result this book covers all the setup details of guitars in general with the important extra bits that you need in order to get your Stratocaster really humming.

      When using this book you should note that there is a particular order to the things that you set up. If you change the order you may find that you will have to go back and redo some of the tasks because you have changed things once again. The final thing that you should do is set up the guitar intonation. This is because changing the gauge of strings, adjusting the action and setting the truss rod could all change the intonation settings. If you are simply changing your strings for the same gauge as you were previously using there shouldn’t be a need to do any further adjustments as the existing settings should be just right.

      The book starts with sections on tuning and solving tuning problems because you need a guitar that stays in tune in order to do further set up tasks on it. The book assumes that you will have an electronic guitar tuner. This will allow you to make precise settings which will improve the overall performance and sound of the guitar. If you have a good sense of pitch then you can, of course, use your ears. Without an electronic tuner you can tackle all of the set up tasks apart from the setting of intonation which requires more accurate settings.

      You need to really know what you want to achieve before you start changing things on your guitar. If you are a complete beginner, at playing the guitar, it probably isn’t a good idea for you to start changing the settings on your instrument. You should therefore get a professional or more experienced guitarist to look at any problems that you have until you know exactly what you want.

      You don’t have to read the book right of the way through. You can simply dip in and out and pick out the part that you want to focus on. However, please remember as stated before that changes that you make may

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