Leo Fender was a West Coast-based genius who didn’t even know how to tune a guitar, but he captured the imagination of cowpokes, blues players and emerging rockers when he released his Telecaster solidbody electric in 1950. Gibson had its own non-guitar-playing mastermind in Ted McCarty. ...
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...
You can preset the basic intonation of your guitar by taking a tape measure and measuring from the inside of the nut to the center of the 12th fret (the fret wire itself; not the fingerboard). Double that measurement to find the scale length of your guitar. Adjust the first-string bridge...
Transcript This is a '70s Telecaster Deluxe. Basically, when they were coming out with this guitar, sort of an obvious attempt to capture the vibe of their
In 1946, Paul took his new guitar to Gibson, who was skeptical about the solid body. Leo Fender, however, understood the conception, and in 1949, he started selling the "Esquire," which became the first successful solid-body guitar. The guitar was later renamed the "Telecaster," one of ...
This ground Connection connects the Cover to Ground. When converting a Telecaster Neck Pickup to a pickup that can be used in 4-Way Switching, we need to sever this connection and run a separate Ground wire from the cover. This turns the pickup into a 3-Wire design – one “hot”, ...
is included, in case you want to follow along using the original Vox schematic. Note:AC and DC voltages can coexist on the same wire. In a guitar amp, the AC guitar signal is imposed on top of the high DC voltages. Fortunately, that AC signal can be separated: Capacitors in the ...
(often the 17th fret onStratocasterandTelecasterguitars). With your free hand, use the feeler gauge to measure the gap between the bottom of the string and the top of the eighth fret (the fret wire itself, not the fingerboard), which is where the curvature should be deepest. Repeat this ...