Stratocaster Setup for a Friend BE SAFE FOLKS 

As long as this channel remains 'Dave's World of Fun Stuff' and not turn into Dave's World of Despair' I think we can call that a win, wishing you the best Dave, thanks for sharing the things you do and I'll see you on the next video.

My local L&M is doing curb side sales for things like strings thankfully, and thanks to you... this legally blind guy is now able to do my own basic setups... my axes are playing great. All the best Dave, and stay safe, a fan from the Maritime’s.

“Through a stack of Marshalls, do you really notice the difference?” LOL!!

Thanks, Greg. For giving us a chance to see Dave do that thing, again!

I just paused the video, before it even started... Davey, glad you're back, and doing whut you do best: teaching lessons about Life, the Universe, and Everything, slyly disguised as guitar repairs, and set ups... Thanks again M'Brutha...

Keep the videos coming Dave, it keeps me sane .....stay well....🎸🎸🎸

Love that pickguard ... minty fresh

Yay, it's therapeutic seeing Dave do a full set up on a guitar after so long. Hopefully you get another porch-drop soon, keep us all sane 😊

Wow, all is well with the world. Thanks Dave for your calm normalcy.

Good to see video from you. Hang in there and stay healthy.

Woohoo! Another video from DWOFS! So happy to hear from you Dave! Stay healthy and safe my friend!

Good to have you back Dave. Please stay safe!

Man, it is good to see you in the bench again. Hope everyone around gives you more and more good stuff

Great to see you again! I like your message because it is the same one that I practice. Be good to yourself and one another !

Nice to see you again Dave. Stay safe, you and your kin.

I do love those intros......

From Leo: You're a good man Dave, taking good care of friends during tough times.

Stay safe and well Dave. Greetings from your pals in bonny Scotland. Great channel.

Great to see you in your natural habitat Dave. Keep on keepin' on..........

Hope you and your family are staying safe, Dave.

Stay safe Dave! I miss the daily setups. Hopefully we get back to normal very soon. We all need a bit more live music in our lives.

Dave I wish you and your family the best stay safe and keep ungooching the gooched!

Dave, stay safe, stay healthy!

Yea! So glad to see a new video! Stay safe!

Dogs barking set me off also with the exact same words..lol

Hey Dave good to see you working on a guitar again ! You have been missed ! Stay safe dude!

LOL!!! I was the Guy trying to figure out the ruler.. Great Video Dave!!! I understood right away when it was explained on Facebook.. I have to say you have a Fantastic Group of People that are willing to help out with any Guitar Questions on your Facebook Page.. Super Impressed.. Thank You and Everyone else for jumping in.. Cheers, and stay safe!!!

A video - what a pleasant surprise! Thanks for that. But more important, keep looking after you and yours, Dave. All the best.

Thank God you are back Dave, going off my nut with no guitar tuneups to watch :)

Hey Dave good to see your torso again! Nice “old” strat....I’ve gone through all of mine since I seem to have the time, and your great lessons. Sounds like your gov has their shit together. Wish ours did......anyway greetings from Ann Arbor Michigan!

Love the intro. Nice guitar. Till the next video from DWOFS Entertainment, Stay safe!✌️

Thanks Dave. You inspired me to work on one of my basses. Fortunately all I had to do this time was polish the frets thanks to you.

Great to see you are well and still plugging. Excellent to see a new one!

I bought a 1964 Stratocaster in 1970, after seeing Jimi Hendrix at Maple Leaf Gardens. Have you got a manual? You need a Fender Small Thick pick, what Fender used to measure the string height at the middle of the neck, after you press the string down on the first and last fret. It's also used to measure the tremolo plate back height. If a Strat is set up properly, when you break a string you feel the ball hit your gut and the string flies like an arrow, going twenty to thirty feet sometimes, depending how much you were bending it.

Great stuff - thank you Dave.

Thank you Dave for the run through steps and setup techniques you use. Some great technique my friend. I am liking the tsrat. I am in the market for one atm. I am a pro bassist but this covid condition got me getting back to my lead guitar interests. God bless and keep you and yours safe and healthy.

Wow! Another resurrected strat. Saved from the gootch demons. HAPPY EASTER TO THE DWOFS COMMUNITY. Peace out.

such a beautiful strat. And hopefully more people will learn the trick of properly winding/ locking the strings on the tuning peg for B and e.

Nice Srat Love the color combo !!! Your friends Marshalls will Freak Out now And the licks will be sooo smooth. Thanks Dave you are keeping us musicians and even Drummers!!(me) sane Cheers

Great to see you back doing guitar work. Great job, hang in there Dave...

Oh Dave powertool heaven when you used that string winder,good to see you back on the guitars again.Relief?I get that every night with a couple of beers in front of my tv.Stay safe.................

"Oh look! there's a dog barking"...shut the fuck up! Good to see you again Dave and your sense of humor is still as sharp as ever. Hope everyone is safe,healthy and Covid-19 free in The House of Dave.

Like all things, this too will pass. Hopefully we're prepared and ready to kick on when it does. Glad to see you're staying busy and creative. Stay safe my friend. Keep those videos comin.

Pretty guitar. I like that cream color.

Have a Happy and safe Easter

Finally Dave a Fix , thank you

Good to see that you’re alive and well. Thanks!

Nice one mate, you stay cool.

GREAT to have you back, on a Strat no less (even if it's MIM). Cheers and stay safe!

That's a nice looking Strat

thank you for the movie, bringing some of the old normal to the new normal. be happy, be safe.

Your spirit seems to be upbeat compared to what I have been living around. I like that, thanks.

I have a cheap Squire Strat I've been struggling to get to a playable state for years. I was under the impression that string height should decrease toward the higher strings, but following this setup protocol solved a lot of the issues I've been having. You have a very informative and entertaining channel. Thanks for the videos!

Dave Thank you For Being You I always Learn Something New about setting up My Guitars as Always You keep it Real.100%

I float my bridge up high as well but not as high as that one but it seems to work really good when you do that because it stays in tune no matter what I'm loving it the time before last I didn't float it all the way to 1/8 of an inch which made it Go Out Of Tune all the time but when I measured it and made sure it was at an eighth of an inch perfect thank you master😎

Sweet lookin Strat for sure! Looks like one of those Vintera 60s with that Pao Ferro board but I could be wrong

Thanks Dave! Nice geetar indeed! Being a headphone user I double enjoy coming here as you make me feel special! Take care and be well sir!

Bought a Classic Player 60’s Strat before they switched to the Vintera. I’ve really enjoyed it. Seems like a nice guitar 🎸. Nice video Dave!

Most work I ever had rounding off fret ends was a maple board Strat that was super rolled on the edges, just from use, I guess. But I really had to work the ends inward from "flush" to get them to stop biting.

It is a very worrying time for everyone at the minute but I am sure we will get through it eventually. I am over here in the UK and have really bad health issues. I have been told that I am to stay housebound for the next 12 weeks. According to the guidelines we have been given I am not to use the same bathroom as my wife and I am to have my meals in a separate room. Gets kind of depressing but worth it so that I don’t get the virus. The health workers everywhere are doing amazing jobs, that’s for sure. Your videos really cheer me up Dave - keep them coming if you can. Stay safe Dave and everybody out there.

Thanks for the candor. I am seventy four, healthy and scared shitless.

nice guitar

Always love the shoutout to the headphone users! Cement mixer indeed sir!

Stay safe Dave! Your awesome!!!

Good to see you again Dave, glad you’re doin ok

Hey Dave! Thanks as always. I'd strongly recommend using some Japan Drier before using (Boiled ) Linseed Oil on a fingerboard. Linseed oil usually takes somewhere between forever, and forever and a day, to dry. With the Japan Drier applied before the Linseed Oil, it dramatically decreases the time to dry. Cheers!

Nice lookin MX Strat.

Nice work as usual, nice out look about the cash...it is our cash so don't sweat it..people are the main thing and the the social construct we call the economy will be fine when everyone is free to get back at it....peace brother.

Synchronous setups make me SQUINT in agony because of how much the finish gets wrecked as that bridge slams into the poor paint! For those who like Synchronous, I recommend installing some inert foam rubber under the bridge to protext the finish underneath.

Cheers from Ontario Ca, thanks for all the videos and knowledge!

Nothing better to do. Spa day for the guitar.

Wishing you all the best. I love watching you work on guitars, it makes me want to try it!

Great video as always! Be safe Dave!! 🎸

thanks Dave.....

Ok, this is kind of crazy. I just put together a guitar with that body color and pickguard combination. It's my old 1991 Strat that had a Warmoth body on it. I decided to put the original body back on it, put a mint green pickguard on there with a set of pre wired Lindy Fralin Real '54 pups that I've had for close to 20 years when I got the Warmoth body. And it had those shitty rubber things that squished and fell apart. Replaced those with springs right away. Thanks for all the useful info.

Dave you are my go to when I need to do a set up thanks for the vids.

Amazing video, learned so much. New sub. 👍

Stay safe to stay well to you and yours guys. Respect

Nice!

His sense of humor is a trip, bone dry hahaha I love it.

Olympic white and a green guard is my favorite.

Hey Dave - your last video has a spelling error in the title. Thanks for the new video, for helping out a friend and Stay Safe!

I've seen some of the tools that SM sells, I bought some of their reasonable priced ones but some are way too expensive. I would really like to buy a fret file tool. Stay safe Dave

MX19 will be a 2019. That's a "Player" model with the spaghetti logo. Love that series of Mexican guitars.

That's one of my favourite looking Stratocasters. I'd love to get my hands on one, playing it or working on it, I don't mind either one.

Love to see a Solo guitar kit build and set up!

Looks like my white strat but she has some dings and big frets and a zebra humbucker in the bridge position. She is old born in 1992 so about 28 years. She also like Daddario strings 10-46 and she has 3 springs and a upgraded (in 2013) graphhtech nut.

Looking forward to watching you work on your personal gear....

Nice color scheme , indeed !! Even the fingerboard looks to be some very light and rosy colored 🌹wood . BZUURRP BZUURRP !! (for you headphone wearers)

Yep. Strings be the issue!

Good to see ya David! I miss your smiling face and overall hilarity on a daily basis. The Fun Stuff ya know!? Hope you and the family aren't ready to kill each other! I would still love to get my mitts on one of Larry's pup height guages. Maybe I'll ask the Universe to help me manifest one. Stay safe and keep a positive brain , Love ya man! PEACE from Southwest Michigan!!!

Hi Dave. Have watched you for years and yes I am a patron. Would it be possible for the guys at Solo to porch drop a kit for you and you could do a set of videos on all the aspects of putting it together?

What a classic design. Nice looking guitar. Btw Dave, fretwork and string height is compelling tv to me. You could shoot a whole vid of that alone. Trust me, Hollywood is crap, real, laid back video is where it's at. Take care

I close my eyes and listen to the winder and think about getting a mix drink. Well off to get me a drink 😉😜😜

Love the intro!

David! It is so good to see your smiley belly again! Miss seeing this stuff, especially under the current circumstances! Are we having a live meeting this weekend??? If so when???

Missed u man. Stay safe Canada. Playing a lot. I’ve got blisters on my fingers. Wasn’t it George who said that?

I got a tremelo with those same "wing" string retainers on my new ax. What a nightmare just trying to stay in tune. *ping* *ping* Keeerrrist what is it? I'd stretch 'em for days, refile the nut slots, grease 'em with graphite and always *ping* *ping* when I'd tune. WTF is that? Finally, my brain kicked in. It was those miserable little wing retainers in my case. Replaced them with round rollers and now no *ping*. A $3.00 fix on ebay and it tunes better - but does drift over time. Now I'm evaluating the string winds. I'm sure you've heard the argument that too many string winds just make a coil on the tuner that can unwind, and add to the instability. What are your thoughts?

Dave, how was the Pot Roast? Thanks for sharing buddy. Stay Safe.

15:03 It would help if you said the pick up height your aiming for