How To Keep Your Stratocaster Guitar In Tune...

[Adieu]

Re: How To Keep Your Stratocaster Guitar In Tune...

So what's the difference between 'unsealed' and 'sealed' anyway? Is it correct to classify a tuner as unsealed just by saying 'look, if you remove the cover you can see they're unsealed!' I mean- the cover itself is the 'sealing' element, correct?

Or is there any additional aspect of a 'sealed' tuner to differentiate from an 'open' tuner - packing with grease for ex. m as is done with Sperzels?

That you dip it in alcphol to clean, and dirt and dead bugs float out....for example

General wobbliness

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: How To Keep Your Stratocaster Guitar In Tune...

Agree -Tuners are rarely the issue -binding is the number one cause -a quality machined tuner that is tensioned up is not going to be the issue in most cases. Also tuner ratio is way overrated. A slow hand and adequate ear doesn't need much. Grover 12:1 and Sperzel 12:1 are machined to a quality that doesn't require anything else. Grover only makes 14:1 and 16:1 because of the competitors craze of super high ratios -not because the 12:1s weren't already perfect. Machine quality is EVERYTHING -and all of the major mfgs do a great job. -With Grover, Sperzel and Schaller being my favs.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: How To Keep Your Stratocaster Guitar In Tune...

All that talk of exonerating tuners, I forgot to answer the OP question -I don't know how to keep Strats in tune -those guitars make my brain hurt unless you lock them down
-Tele frying pans or any Hardtail -YES
-Tunomatic Anything -HELL YES
-Gretsch Bigsby YES
-Floyd Rose -even YES to the Super Strat

-any vintage Fender Tremelo with Springs into the bottom cavity??? If you play all the time it's Black Magic -consult a doctor.

Actually I quit playing those Fender Trems long before I developed the requisite skills I have now for setting up my guitars -it's just too late for me now to go back....

 

[Adieu]

Re: How To Keep Your Stratocaster Guitar In Tune...

-any vintage Fender Tremelo with Springs into the bottom cavity??? If you play all the time it's Black Magic -consult a doctor.

Actually I quit playing those Fender Trems long before I developed the requisite skills I have now for setting up my guitars -it's just too late for me now to go back....

If you were inexperienced, much less inexperienced and with poor equipment...and now have experience and good gear...it's hardly a fair comparison

As a teenager I thought tube amps were a disease. My approach of turning everything except master volume up to 10 probably had something to do with it.... lol

 

[Silence Kid]

Re: How To Keep Your Stratocaster Guitar In Tune...

I'll again stress that I did not watch the video so no clue if this was touched on- But the biggest part of the equation in keeping my six-hole Strat trems in tune (when tilt/floating,) was balancing all six screws and setting them to the precise height required (trial and error.) My two stay in better tune than any pedal tuner I own can detect, and only show a tiny drift using my Interface/GarageBand tuner after extreme trem use (like two cents max - ever. And I cannot isolate whether that's even caused by the trem/nut/something else, but it's good enough for me.)

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: How To Keep Your Stratocaster Guitar In Tune...

Completely true -I have an unhealthy aversion to Fender Trems from experiences on 80s import Fenders at the age of 13 -hardly fair. At the same age I had no problem keeping a Kramer Focus with Floyd Rose dialed though.

I have no doubt that if I bought a Fender American Standard Strat or JazzMaster -that I could keep it tip top dialed in after a few days of catching up no matter the vintage.

However, a lot of the older vintage brands like Danelectro, Harmony, Supro etc , I bet money are still more challenging to keep there intonation unless you are on them constantly.

 

[Adieu]

Re: How To Keep Your Stratocaster Guitar In Tune...

Completely true -I have an unhealthy aversion to Fender Trems from experiences on 80s import Fenders at the age of 13 -hardly fair. At the same age I had no problem keeping a Kramer Focus with Floyd Rose dialed though.

I have no doubt that if I bought a Fender American Standard Strat or JazzMaster -that I could keep it tip top dialed in after a few days of catching up no matter the vintage.

However, a lot of the older vintage brands like Danelectro, Harmony, Supro etc , I bet money are still more challenging to keep there intonation unless you are on them constantly.

Compared to the crap most 13 yos in any other decade, especially recent years, use...

Japanese Fenders and 80s Kramers. Lol.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: How To Keep Your Stratocaster Guitar In Tune...

My Kramer Focus 1000 was the ****!!!! :lmao: