5 things you didn't know about your Fender Strat

Hey guys, today we're going to do five

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about a Fender Stratocaster. Okay, let's start with number one. If you have an American Stratocaster, you may have bought it new and seen this little sticker sometimes in its colors, but most of the time. They are silver and if you

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the sticker was holding this little guy up, it's a spring. Now, if you own a Merrick Strat, you probably didn't know this spring existed. So what is it for? Well, it's very simple. Guys, when you put the tremolo arm on the strap, you realize it's a little loose and you go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on until it gets really stiff and sometimes you put it on.

That way, just to bring it closer, it doesn't move, look, it moves inside the lace, well, that's what the spring is for, so what we do is take the long fabric. I'm out, I drop that little guy. Look what happens now when we put it on, you will immediately notice that the spring pressure makes it much stiffer and you will get

your

tremolo arm. Look, stay wherever you want right now. I can do this, my pinky. it stays where I want it and it's not stiff at all so if you want it like here and then they're there but you don't want it to sway but you don't want it stiff either that's what the spring is for so you can take it or leave it with some kind of effect and also helps you not cross threads or ruin

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tremolo arm when you insert it into the socket.

How about a guitar made in Mexico? Well, you'll notice it never came with one and no. sticker there it works absolutely falls right there I'm surfing the tremolo arm and the same effect you get stiff immediately where you don't have a lot of tension you can have it however you want, you have more control of your Trim the alarm, it feels a little better and, if the you have, it also works on vintage Strats, on most Strats, some Squires, if you have problems with the spring, you will see it in the link below where to buy them, if necessary you will buy them. in a package they are very hard, you can't flex them, you can't squeeze them together, there's a lot of pressure, you can cut them to a certain amount of depth to generate static electricity, sometimes when you play your guitar and you hear a creaking sound in the pickguard, right? and/or creaks when you touch

things

like screws, sometimes there is ground, sometimes there are electronics, you may want to incorporate them, but many times you just need a clean cloth and some type of protector or static eliminator, again, just a little spray, no. a lot, just a little bit, pat it and touch the affected area, make sure you touch most of the plastic again, just keep it light, sometimes you know you can with the strings on the bridge, anywhere you think it builds static charge . up you want to get that out of there before you pick it up and pay for any type of electronic device you can even clean the inside down if with some static remover you can also use fabric softeners just keep in mind that a lot of them have fragrances.

It's added so that the hardened feel gets to the guitar, but if you can find a fragrance-free anti-static protector, our static softening sheet that works wonders, make that number three, so a lot of times when you want to rest the tremolo against the body one thing or less. On the tremolo a lot of times you'll screw in the six screws or, if it's an American guitar, you tighten the two screws as tight as you can and what will happen is you won't notice that the tremolo, let's say close, has an edge. that's hard to see, especially in the main area of ​​Mexico, in the main area of ​​the United States, you see how it's not perfectly flat, it's going up, what happens is you just screw the screws in, the bridge actually goes up because it doesn't It's their classification, you see.

What I see is the edge there, so if you tighten these screws too much, you're actually going to make the bridge go from being flat to being raised a little bit, so on your guitar, if you look closely, you have a little bit of area. Right there, then you want to loosen them and lower them, so believe it or not, loosening the screws will sometimes lower the bridge to stop it from this action to that action number four. One of the problems we sometimes have with

fender

s is that the springs make this noise and it's not very pleasant, especially when you're playing and you hear that kind of ringing sound, especially from these.

Okay, so what you want to do is just once, just pull out the spring and make sure it doesn't cook you. Pinch well if you feel more comfortable pulling out all the different shapes. I understand that you want to get a piece of foam like I get from the bottom of the electric guitar pickup package, but you want the strip to be maybe a quarter of an inch thick, right? like this and it will be something like try to make it like a quarter of an inch five quarters of an inch which is ideal look it works like this now what you want to take is a low E string from your electric guitar bend it like this a hook stab it like it was a worm pass about half an inch fold it down and then what I want to do is push it through the string press rips the spring not the string Bend this to make sure it goes through and then pull slowly and then you'll notice you're almost done we have about 97, you may have to take this end and push on the back to get the rest in there, yes, that's working fine, take it out and then take.

Your scissors cut it on that side and then listen well, so now you hook it here and now versus and do that is the three and you will soften your springs. Many guys will just push in a toilet paper, tissue, or foam. inside underneath that works too. I just like this trick because it's so neat and easy and since you saw how quickly I made it, if you take a few extra seconds you can make it stick out a lot on each end and make it look a little cleaner. best number five, okay, a lot of guys have the same problem when they strum, they hit the knob and a lot of them take the knob off, use one of these and leave it at that.

I've seen it many times. I've seen cases where someone like me takes a tone and moves it down and has nothing there and if you're strumming it's at the point where you're hitting the knob, there's no way around it, unfortunately, though, a lot . Many times the problem is not hitting the knob, it's just that while playing you feel like you are hitting it and lowering the guitar a little. We've all gotten it right, so how can you stop it? Again you're going to use a piece of foam, some scissors and enough, and it's basically like arts and crafts, stick the LIA knob on top of the foam and start cutting the foam to fit the knob so we can essentially make a donut foam, very exciting. make some adjustments to make it look a little better and it looks perfect okay now that we have a foam donut we are going to use two things we need the tremolo arm of the guitar and the scissors very carefully please just stab the center. of the foam, okay, that's all you want to do and then crisscross it like a Philips head screw, then take the setting alarm and use the plastic cover to spread the very cold foam and then all you're going to do It is simply placing it on top. the post, make sure it's all the way forward, take the knob, put it in there, push it down and if it sticks out a little bit again, it's pretty simple, you can do a quick clean up there with the scissors, you'll notice that you can You have to modify it to let it work that way and now, there and again, line it up, follow them there, push down and now you will notice that it still spins, but it's very hard and you won't have to worry about bumps. because you're definitely going to want to want to twist it to get the right twist guys that's five things you need to know about a Fender Strat as always thanks for your time get to know your gear.