I am 59 this year…love John Frusciante’s Strat tones on ‘Stadium Arcadium’! If I’m not mistaken he uses a ‘55 Strat in the neck position a lot (Dani California)….3-way switch! I immediately go to sleep if I hear positions 2/4 on a Strat! Boring and sterile and cliche! Clapton sounded the best playing Brownie or a Les Paul! I’m immediately getting rid of the 5-way switch in a Custom Shop Strat I just bought second hand for a 3-way. YES it does affect the tone of the 3 positions if you remove the 5-way…definitely.
I just scored a bb rat reissue, mine has dolph man on the pot sticker , it's from 6th week of 92. These big boxes do sound great , but so does my you dirty rat.
A drillpress will drill a perfectly square hole exactly the depth desired... Titebond glue is stronger than the wood, so I use that to glue wood to wood...
I got one of these all beat up and cheap. It's the perfect upgrade platform. The big giveaway that it's a Mexican neck is the neck adjust hole is plastic instead of walnut. I think the fire being the reason for these is erroneous. Fender was looking to make a competitive cheaper model guitar to compete with Asian imports at the time. This was the lowest end Fender branded guitar available at the time. Good guitars, I'd recommend anyone pick it up if they find one.
😥 You took the locking nut off and added an lsr roller. I miss this guitar. I middes the hell out of it, but always kept the ceramic middle and neck pups and put a mini hum in. Needed frets when I was done with it. Took me 30 years to fonda comoerable guitar that felt the same. It cost me 80 buck mint Dressed the fret ends dropped a p90 rail in the bridge and two gfs vintage alnico 5 singlesiddle and neck. I first tried my fe Dr custom shop fat 50's. They sucked compared to the gfs singles Imo.
I've had a System 1 Squire for 37 years, just got another a few weeks ago, and always put the strings through the holes in the trem block. Why would they make you put them all the way up in there? That's crazy. Through the holes works fine. I really don't believe that is a "Contemporary" model, but rather a "Standard". Some of the Contemporary ones had System 1, thus the confusion, but all of the Contemporary ones had at least 1 humbucker. You have a model 027-4302 in color code 532
I'm about to do this on a new Epiphone that I love, with the exception of the Bigsby. I saw how you align it, but missed how you gauged the distance this needs to be from the string tree. Turned out really well. It's not the drilling it's the alignment that I'm concerned with.
My very first guitar was a Kay Red Devil in 1963 that was branded TRUETONE and sold at Western Auto Stores. You might enjoy this. Maybe you can get a chuckle In 1963 I convinced my Mom that I would stick to learning to play guitar if she would buy me one. I had borrowed an arch-top, "F" hole Kay acoustic from a friend, and I learned to play a few chords and songs, but that was, apparently, enough to convince her that I would keep at it. At the time I had no idea what a good guitar was, or what a cheap guitar was, but we decided to look. One day we were at the local Western Auto store, on Broad Street, downtown Kingsport, Tennessee, and there was this beautiful red guitar on sale for $69.95. I convinced her that I would fall dead then and there if I didn't leave the store w/ that guitar. ( It was a "Truetone", a Kay guitar, re-branded to Western Auto's musical instrument brand, much like the way Kays were rebranded to Sears' Silvertone brand) I think she figured the guitar would be cheaper than a funeral so she bought it, and a little 12 or 14" amplifier to go with it for me. I guarantee there wasn't a happier 15 year old anywhere on the planet that day, or for the next couple dozen days at least. After a few months I had saved enough to buy a used Fender Super Reverb amp from someone, and I just knew then, my music career was bound for fame and glory. Get ready for me Ed Sullivan!!! ... You too Dick Clark!!! ... And all of you cute girls out there that will stand at my feet screaming in adolescent excitement, and touch my shoes and pants leg from the edge of the stage where I will appear. I suppose I have Earl Carter to thank for completely ruining my lust for fame. He instead, taught me how to cultivate my second career hope as a photographer, and how to turn my skills and talents with my eyes into a real life possibility for providing self "satisfaction", (which at least one famous band could not get... right Mick) and put food on the table, pay the bills and keep in guitar strings. And so, it is with a modicum of sarcasm that I say "THANK YOU EARL"... for destroying and devastating my music career, and leaving me w/ nothing but "reality" to get me through the last 55 years of my life. Being a News Photographer has been one of the most interesting and rewarding (though lower paid) careers I might have hoped for. It has made me "rich". That said, you readers here must remember that "broke" is a financial condition and "rich" is a state of mind. So thanks Earl, for making me "rich" and "broke" at the same time. I wouldn't have given it up for the fame and fortune of the Beatles, Elvis, and Peter, Paul and Mary combined. Anyway... I didn't realize that dream of fame, in case you hadn't noticed... but I also had not realized how my Mother had stretched her budget to buy that guitar for me until today. You see, I have always thought of it as a $69 guitar, but today I did a comparison and she spent today's equivalent of over $750.00 on me that day. $69 in 1963 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $618.54 today , an increase of $549.54 over 58 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.89% per year between 1963 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 782.47%. $14.95 (the price of the amp) is equivalent to about $132.29 today. Anyway, here is a video with a "real musician" playing a Truetone "Red Devil" (the name is from the look of pointy "horns" I suppose) EXACTLY like mine, only making it sound like I could never make mine sound. Enjoy listening while I get a Kleenex. This is nostalgic for me. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-opfsN3TRwsQ.html
Thank you for this video. I bought a Gibson 2015 Midtown from Reverb... the seller showed a picture of the G Force, but I just figured it was a tuner like a Snark. Well, it doesn't work. Sometimes it puts the guitar in tune... sometimes not. Either way, once it is in tune, it very quickly falls out of tune. Do you think the guitar will stay in tune with the new Grovers... or might there be another issue? Thanks.
Nothing can compare to the Cry Baby’s sweep but the Bad Horsie’s switchless design is absolutely invaluable when you want to add quick wah bursts to rhythm tracks and need fast switching. It’s an awesome feature and overall a very underrated piece of gear.
S1 (Fender/Schaller) systems were available direct from the factor on MIJ Strats from 1984-1986. This is just one way to date your MIJ Strat. Another way (as mentioned by others in this thread) is to review the numbers/info. on the Tone/Volume Pots (assuming the pots are original). If the pots aren’t original and you’re not sure if some genius installed a Schaller S1 into a different Strat, you could also check a few different spots on the neck for lettering/dates/stamping. I’ve also heard a rumor that the original Fujen Strats were most often manufactured with rosewood necks.
Thanks a lot, i've used forniture dowels and titebond and it worked... now i'm doing in a second guitar but i'm gonna try a flat side plug with superglue this time
You ask on guitar forums and Facebook groups about how to do this, and all you get is a bunch of people trying to talk you out of it because THEY personally love positions 2 and 4. I've been playing Strats of one kind or another for about 20 years, and I just never really use either of them. They just don't cut through the mix like the individual pickups do, and don't get me started on how much I hate the "quack" thing... A 3-way switch is just more practical for me, I can instantly flick to the middle pickup without having to fiddle around to find the right switch position.
I have these on Yamaha but high E string keeps breaking when bending.Ran through 3 e strings .Maybe there is a sharp notch inside it or something.I ll try to wind it around the post maybe it will help.Very frustrating.
I've had one of these for forever. I got it before I understood the differences between overdrive/distortion/fuzz. What I actually wanted was distortion, some kind of 'metal' box, so I didn't really like the overlord to start. Love it now, although it's a bit noisy. Might try changing the tube now I know how easy that is. Great review, thanks.
My friend this is the very best video online on how to do this, the real professional way, without all that clear coat build up and sanding thanks a million do it like you did and brush on a very small amount liquid clear coat to hide all edges, thank you.
Great, I use a Boss GE-7 graphic eq cos it has a volume slider hooked up the same, good for low volume playing and recording. Any eq pedal will work as long as it has a level/ vol.
