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I have also heard of people making shims out of guitar picks or small pieces
of old credit cards.
The Jaguar and Jazzmaster often need shims because their bridges are higher
off the guitar body than a Strats, and they need their necks tilted back a
bit. But I have heard of Strat owners finding shims in their neck pockets
too. I would seek some advice on shims at the Fender Forum in the Guitar
Mods & Repair forum.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: viktor423 [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:51 AM
> To:
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Strat Bridge Specs
>
>
> Thor: Take the neck off and insert a small shim about the thickness
> of a matchbook between the neck and body this should correct the tilt
> of the neck. A repair man will charge about $40 bucks for this, but
> you can easily do it yourself. Generaly, strats play better with
> higher action, and you really have to fight them to get them to sing,
> but the rewards of this struggle are well worth it; no other guitar
> can sing like a strat in the right hands.
> --- In SurfGuitar101@y..., "One Four Six Oh" <thor1460@h...> wrote:
> > >My advice is you crank that fucker down against the body
> > >and forget upward bends
> >
> > That's what I have done. I do whammys by grabbing the bridge (with
> either
> > hand, depending on which one isn't needed). I originally started
> doing this
> > because I lost my whammy bar, but then I realized I hated the
> whammy bar
> > because it got in the way of my palm muting of the high strings.
> So that's
> > just what I do now. This is much easier when there are less
> springs in the
> > back, but since I moved to .12's I had to add an extra spring. I
> don't
> > really ever have problems with going out of tune with the bridge
> all the way
> > down + I always tune UP to the note, otherwise it will slip out of
> tune if
> > you whammy and bend. Atleast that is what I have found.
> >
> > >As for your neck bowing - thats why they have trussrods, eh?
> >
> > I have flatwound 12's on mine and my action kind of sucks. The
> main problem
> > isn't bow, but that the neck just leans forward a little bit. How
> much does
> > it cost to have this fixed or set up? I'm not that concerned about
> my
> > action because I can still play it fine.
> >
> > -Thor Andersen, Monsters From Mars
> >
> >
