The Floyd Rose style of nut has become popular ever since Floyd Rose invented his revolutionary floating bridge in the late 1970s. The locking nut accompanied the Floyd Rose bridge to help keep a guitar in tune with a changes of the Floyd Rose bridge. Locking nuts are made of metal and h...
In this piece, we'll break down everything you need to know to ensure you've got the right strings on your Stratocaster, Telecaster or any other electric guitar. String Gauges "String gauge" refers to the size of the string, as in how thick, measured in thousandths of an inch. The ga...
However, the Telecaster bridge, that’s a different story! This large metal plate not only holds the bottom strings in place, but also integrates the bottom pickup and has up to 5 mounting holes with widely spaced screw holes, allowing for better distribution of the leverage on the bridge ...
which is done using the adjustable string-length mechanisms found at thebridge. The bridge saddles over which each string passes can usually be moved forward and backward; that
I had to do this on my Telecaster to get the mid and neck pickups to hum cancel. Note that if you change the magnetic polarity of a pickup the current flow direction will also reverse so you will have to swap its hookup wires to keep the same electrical polarity. Be aware that some...
On vintage style tuners (where the string goes down into a hole in the tuning peg, like on early Telecasters) you’ll want to pull the string at slack and cut the excess length 2 tuners past the one you’re installing, The A string should be cut at the G string tuning post, etc....
these guys were already Fender customers, drawn to his amplifiers and lap steels. Outfitting them with guitars was like shooting fish in a barrel. Besides, if you break it down, the Telecaster was basically a lap steel you played like a regular Spanish guitar. Its bright punchy sound was ...
Most manufactures don’t actually write the production dates on the guitar in plain view. First let’s take a look at where to find ID numbers on a Fender guitar. Where do I find my Fender Serial Number? This article is intended to help you date your Fender Stratocaster, Telecaster, and...
anything that’s coming out of your speakers differently than what you put into the preamps is “distorted”. There is no one frequency to fix things. High frequencies such as those generated by cymbals or the scratchy pick-attack noise on a Telecaster plugged into a Twin Reverb with the ...
So that’s something that has led me to playing this [Noventa] Jazzmaster with P-90s, and I’ve got a Custom Telecaster that we’re working on at the moment with a humbucker at the bridge and a soapbar in the neck.” On that rainy day in North Bristol, Yola was frank about how ...