Fender makes guitars with every style of nut imaginable. The “classic” Fender nut on most Stratocasters and Telecasters will probably have a straight nut made out of bone, horn, or synthetic material glued in a slot on the fretboard. These nuts are called inlayed nuts. A slot is routed...
Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster truss rods are often only accessible at the bottom of your guitar neck. These truss rods can’t be adjusted while the neck is still bolted to the guitar because the screw head or allen head is partially hidden by the body. In order to adjust your Fender ...
In the ’60s, the Telecaster saw iconic action with Ricky Nelson and Elvis sideman James Burton. Only a kid when he began performing, he was a pioneer of Tele string bending. He used thin banjo strings to make bends easier and the idea influenced manufacturer Ernie Ball to begin offering l...
strong>Project Overview The guitar I was hired to retrofit was a reissue Fender’72 Tele Thinline. My job was to remove the two ’72 reissue Wide Range humbuckers and replace them with two original Seth Lover Wide Range pickups that came from a ’72 Telecaster Deluxe the client owned in ...