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Post subject: Re: Fender fixed bridge strats
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:34 am
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jrporter wrote:
I've been involved in the hardtail discussion before and question how FMIC would determine that there is a demand if hardtail models are so minimally represented in the lineup....

It's actually working backwards. When one has followed the company since 1958 the way I have, you see how the trends are set primarily by the artists, kind of music being played, and the demands on the instrument to create the tones. Hardtails were always a part of the catalog, however, the vendors and their buyers will structure their orders based upon the gear which consumers are requesting and moving. Hardtails were just not doing it and, save for the few which were specified in the 'artist' series, eventually disappeared from the production line. Ron Wood plays a vintage hardtail Strat but then there's Clapton's mongrel 'Blackie' which did not have a wood block but five springs and the trem claw screwed tight to the wood. Clapton's ear told him something in the tone was better with a vintage trem set up that way. The company adds a wood block to that system for his Artist series Strat. What I don't know for a fact is whether or not his stage guitars are set up that way because they also lack a TBX in favor of a conventional tone pot.

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Post subject: Re: Fender fixed bridge strats
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:53 am
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DarkPenguin wrote:
1. Don't sneeze while swinging a hammer.
2. If you're putting string ferrules in you have to get them hot enough to neatly sink in through the finish and whatnot. Too hot is a problem. Not hot enough is another problem. (See item 1.)
3. My fender cts pots hit the bottom edge of the control route.
4. A wide vintage string spacing is cool if disconcerting.
5. A chambered body means you have chambers you can drill into and that wire runs can get lost in.
6. Does every fender part HAVE to require a different hex wrench? Another set of tiny hex wrenches is on the way....
7. Putting on the (copper) foil (coach) is a pita.
8. Copper foil is a great way to ground a hardtail. I put it under the bridge and soldered a wire to it.

I'm down to string trees and strap end pins. Then it is adjustments.

Waiting for the neck to adjust to being under tension.

Number 1 is sound advice indeed.

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