How do I post pictures? I have some questions about the body and neck and have pictures of what im asking but dont know how to post them? Help? Then help again?!?

upload it to a photobucket site or similar, then:

Ok so





Thanks!! And what am I looking at?? I mean, really, what is this..

adjustable neck shim.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

What is it? What does it do? Was it originally their? Or did someone put it in? How do I use it?

its a neck adjustment. not all fenders have them.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Yes it is original. Its called a Micro tilt Adjuster. That looks to be a 70s reissue. Microtilt become standard on guitars starting in 1972. Now a days the American standard and 70s reissues have the micro tilt along with a few other models. Unless you are having problems with your neck I would leave the Microtilt alone or take it to a professional. If you don't know what you are doing you can really mess up the playability of your strat by messing with the tilt or truss rod.

Does anyone know how to use it though?? I set my own guitars and this is a first for me!
I need guidance!

dont mess with it unless you need tilt in your neck. the slightest movement effects your neck angle. go get the book by dan erlewine guitar repair. there is a section on it in there.
its nice to have IF you ever really need it. ive only heard of maybe 1 or two times in my life where adjusting that was the answer to any problem.

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63supro
"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

As others have questioned....but I'll put it right out there.....

"What is wrong with the neck angle on your guitar?"

If your answer is "I don't know" or "I have no problem", then leave it alone and put the neck back on and go ahead and adjust the truss rod and saddles and intonation and be done with it.

If you have insanely high action that you can't fix with the truss rod and saddles or you have strings literally hitting the frets, then you "might" need to adjust this. But if that's the case, something happened to the guitar. Did you pull it out of a bay or ocean somewhere? (I know someone who actually found a very expensive guitar this way, by the way)

I want to add that with other bolt on guitars, the way to make this adjustment is with shims between the body and neck. If you don't understand what that means.....bolt on your neck now and never take it off again.

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Jimmie Vaughan Stratocaster
Mexican HSS Stratocaster
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2 kids (not for sale)
1 wife (uh....no comment)

If it ain't broke don't fix it or try to fix it. Why invite trouble.

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+1000!

Arjay

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