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...
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. ...
Traditional Telecaster sockets can be very tricky to install and even trickier to reinstall. In fact, you can even buy specialist tools for the job. Fortunately, this guitar has a modern Electrosocket-style mount, where the socket screws into the cup and two screws fix the cup onto the body...
V2's output goes out the blue wire to the output transformer (not shown) for a current boost, then from the output transformer via the green wire to the speaker jack (to the right of V2) and on to the speaker. I have added component numbers to the layout diagram above that match ...
Fender Telecasters are considered the ultimate workhorse guitar, and a Telecaster will sound great for just about anything you're trying to play. Can I teach myself electric guitar? Thanks to online resources like instructional videos, it is possible to learn how to play electric guitar on yo...
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”, ...
You’ve come to the right place. In this guide, we look at the best entry-level Fender acoustic guitars and help you sort out what you should look for in such a product. Contents Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster With Premium Gig Bag The Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster is a ...