is leaving the back plate off on a stratocaster safe at all? ive seen a lot of guitarists with strats without the back plate, i was just curious

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Im gonna say its perfectly fine to leave it off my john mayer signature didnt come with one at all... I know most people get tired of putting them back on and lose them over the years

ok, i was just tired of putting it on and i lost some of the screws, so i was just wondering

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Unless you have a lot of long stomach hair and play with your shirt off. Most everyone I know takes them off as soon as the at least do their first string change and never bother to put them back. I keep mine in ziplock bag with the screws just to have in case I would sell my guitar. As a safety thing, its no big deal.

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the vacuum store is a lot like the guitar store. but they do not attract the same clientele as the guitar store, cause if they did, the vacuum store would be loaded with a bunch of broke guys who just wanted to run the new vacuums.

I used to keep mine off, But if you wear a Belt Buckle,or Metal Buttons on a jacket, and it scrapes against the springs, you can kind of hear it in the guitar while you are playing. I put mine back on but cut all the holes out into a rectangle a little larger than the string area. It makes it easier to change strings, and I haven't had to remove it again.

When I had a guitar with a back-plate I kept it on.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

Jimi Hendrix used to leave his back plates off so he could access the springs and manipulate and pluck them certain ways to add to his sound arsenal.

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It doesn't hurt to leave the back-plate off... but it does look kinda messy.

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my friend doesn't have back plate so he can pluck the strings and make wierd sounds. but it looks terrible.

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riley

It is not safe. You will die if you keep doing that.
















...just kidding...

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[quote="bowlfreshener"]It is not safe. You will die if you keep doing that.


I can't count the times in my life someones told me that. I told them they didn't know how to have fun.

God, I hope you weren't playing naked, your poor guitars probably felt molested....

hahaha

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I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk...

I replaced mine yesterday. I had blocked out the trem and couldn't get to the strings without removing it. I bought a new back plate and made the access slot larger so now I can leave it on. A Dremel tool with a small conical stone does a great job of grinding out the plastic.

I feel much safer :0) and it looks like the original.