The article presents a book review for "The Fender Stratocaster Handbook: How To Buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot, and Modify Your Strat," by Paul Belmer.ShoafBrownUniv.EricBrownUniv.C.BrownUniv.Library Journal
A short scale guitar, like a Fender Jaguar or a Gretsch Streamliner with heavy strings on it, for example, can provide a piano-like bass with seriously twang on the upper strings.Common String MaterialsAlthough for years it’s been popular to say that “a string is a string is a string...
As author Tom Wheeler noted inThe Stratocaster Chronicles: Celebrating 50 Years of the Fender Strat, “Players had other ideas. They discovered that balancing the pickup selector in between the notched positions provided additional sounds, typically described as thin, delicate, honky, quacky, hollow,...
The serial numbers on the outside of the body are not the only way to date a Fender guitar however. Fender also dated the neck when it was manufactured. After the neck was finished, a Fender employee would either stamp or handwrite the date on the end of the guitar neck on its heel....
Common Sightings: Fender Stratocasters use the classic bar-style (or “Fender style”) single-coils. Notable Strat players include Stevie Ray Vaughan (solo artist), Andy Summers (The Police), and H.E.R. (solo artist). P90 pickups are also single-coils and many possess what came to be ...
From 7 strings and baritones to six string chug machines, it delivers truly insane value for money. Fender Guitars: The Legacy Brand That Can Do No Wrong Fender is a legacy brand but it has been kicking ass and taking names these past few years, both with its mainline, high-end stuff ...
The fast attack nails the initial string impact, and the fast release lets it go pronto to minimize sustain. The result is a clean, snappy pluck that works great for those blazing cowboy cascades. SmoothTHRSH: -27.5dB RATIO: 10:1 ATT: 50ms REL: 38ms...
through the middle of the guitar; put the pickups in in the same way; do what wiring you can out of the guitar; and solder the rest - while not being very careful not to melt the sides of the electronics cavity. Yes, all-in-all, we'd rather be working on a Strat at this point...
Fender launched the news on its Instagram page over the weekend with a video of DeLonge with the guitar, captioned “You heard @tomdelonge: the Strat is coming back! Head to the link in bio for a first look and sign up for a chance to win your own Tom Delonge Stratocaster.” ...
The Squier name was conveniently to hand as one that Fender already owned – since CBS acquired the VC Squier string-making firm back in 1965 Martin Fredman figured that Fender ought to be making a similar but cheaper line because there were so many others out there making budget-price copie...