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Post subject: EJ strat info
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:45 am
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Where on the web can I find anything or everything about set-up for my EJ strat? Had it set up at local music store .They did a good job. I just want know how low some of the E.J. strat owners have gotten. Thanks for any help.


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Post subject: Re: EJ strat info
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:18 am
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The setup will be the same as any strat, only differnece will be the radius of the saddles. The EJ is 12" instead of 7 1/4 or 9 1/2. If the neck is as straight as you want it; lower the saddles to your liking. Doing setups for other people is the only time I actually use radius gauges and the like, and even then its just to start out. When I do my own, except for setting pickup height, its all done by sight/feel. Because individual playing styles will influence alot. I tend to play with a heavier picking hand than average, so I have to set my strings/ relief accordingly, because I hate buzzing strings. Some people want me to put their necks dead straight, which will cause buzzing, but they like the tone and put up with it. You can go onto the fender sight, get the setup instructions. Start with that, and work from there. Unless the store you bought it from did a setup after you bought it, and before you brought it home, it will need another setup. Its wood, so things move around when they're sitting in a back room, let alone with everyone and their brother taking them off the wall and playing it. Ideally, and I offer this for free, but youd be surpised how few of the people take me up on it; a setup will be done, and then another one done a week later. This allows for everything to settle after the first setup, and then its just fine tuning the second one, and the second one tends to stay right for a while.
Although there are more moving parts on a Strat than on a Les Paul, they're one of the easiest to setup once you get a handle on what you're doing. And unless you start cutting wood or steel, there's nothing your going to do that cant be undone if you mess up, (just dont over tighten the truss rod). The EJ is IMO the best made production strat out there. Plus with the thicker V neck, and the fact its made out of quartersawn maple, its tough and riggid. I built a strat, and I tailored the neck alot of the EJ; quartersawn, V profile(that I shapped to take some treble side shoulder off between the 7th and 15th fret) a slightly thinner headstock (not as thin as the EJ, but i tappered it toward the B and high E strings, so with the staggered locking tuners i dont need the string trees).


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