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longbow
September 28th, 2008, 07:49 PM
I have been having a problem of late with this particular strat I have. Made from licensed parts, mitey mite neck(excellant by the way), mitey mite pups(kind of suck really), and a solid alder body that cost me more than the squire strat I just bought off ebay.
Anyways put a loaded pickguard of mitey mite pups on it last week and removed the Kent Armstrong pups/pg. After doing so for some reason I have yet to fathom the string set looked way higher off the neck. So today it took more than a few hours of screwing around to get the strings back where they should be. ie) close to the fret board.
What I ended up doing is shimming the neck with a piece of cardboard off the back of a spiral notebook, and then shimming the nut with some 3.5 card. Next I had to readjust the floating bridge, saddles and go to slightly heavier strings. 10's instead of 9's. Finally have it down low with 0 buzz and the tremolo is working at the position it is supposed. PUPS still aren't the greatest but haven't gone back to the KA's which I am sure I will as they definetly have way more punch than the HSS mitey configuration I currently have on. It was definetly a learning experience. What I didn't realize is that you don't need to cover the whole neck pocket with the shim. What I ended up doing is putting right about the center of the pocket center of the holes. That's it, all is well is Stratsville. thanks
Anyways put a loaded pickguard of mitey mite pups on it last week and removed the Kent Armstrong pups/pg. After doing so for some reason I have yet to fathom the string set looked way higher off the neck. So today it took more than a few hours of screwing around to get the strings back where they should be. ie) close to the fret board.
What I ended up doing is shimming the neck with a piece of cardboard off the back of a spiral notebook, and then shimming the nut with some 3.5 card. Next I had to readjust the floating bridge, saddles and go to slightly heavier strings. 10's instead of 9's. Finally have it down low with 0 buzz and the tremolo is working at the position it is supposed. PUPS still aren't the greatest but haven't gone back to the KA's which I am sure I will as they definetly have way more punch than the HSS mitey configuration I currently have on. It was definetly a learning experience. What I didn't realize is that you don't need to cover the whole neck pocket with the shim. What I ended up doing is putting right about the center of the pocket center of the holes. That's it, all is well is Stratsville. thanks