New Here

Hi, I'm John, and I'm a Fender-holic... I'm also the proud owner of a new Squier Deluxe Stratocaster. Beautiful instrument, with a brown SB quilted maple top. I noticed the fit and finish were excellent, the tone is great and the playability very comfy. My standard? I own an American Vintage '52 Reissue Telecaster and an American Series Telecaster, and the Squire still impressed me! They've apparantly come a long way. I owned a Squier Standard Telecaster a few years ago, but my new Strat blows that Tele out of the water from a Quality perspective. So here I am, two Teles and a Strat. Happy.

Just one question... do you change the strings one at a time or all at once? I never owned a tremelo equipped instrument before now.

Anyway, I look forward to playing my new Strat and visiting you folks from time to time.

http://www.squierguitars.com/gear/show_zoom.php?matnr=0321660537&feature_id=0:1

http://www.squierguitars.com/gear/show_specs.php?product=0321660&feature_id=0:1


John :D :D :D

Welcome KingPussBlues. I am a Fenderholic too. Gotta love anyone with "blues" in their name and/or heart. I'm a long time member here but infrequent poster. But In answer to your question: "do you change the strings one at a time or all at once?", I change my Strat strings one at a time for the very reason you imply (the tremelo springs). Much less tuning and retuning that way. Each string's tension effects the others due to being counter-tensioned by the springs. Still more time consuming to restring and tune a Strat (w/ tremelo) than a fixed bridge guitar. Enjoy the good folks here and your new Strat!

change your strings one at a time. However get into the habit of removing them all once or twice a year to give the fingerboard a good clean and apply lemon oil. Also when carrying out other maintenace such as cleaning pots or switches. :)

One at a time it is! I'm glad I asked. I'm in the habit of changing strings all at once on my two Teles. The Strat seems like a great guitar, and I was ready for a little variety, so I think I'll enjoy it a lot. Playing the Blues is my passion. Had to fit it in the name.

Thanks Again!

John 8)

Unless there's something unusual about yer Strat's setup, changing the strings all at once is no problem at all.

More important is how you setup the trem action - whether floated (the front edge bridge screws or twin posts are the fulcrum point), or have the bridge's butt end set down on the guitar top either lightly or hard.

Since I rarely use the trem, I set the bridge down hard by screwing in the spring claw and/or adding another trem spring - the trem still works, only it takes a fair amount of pressure on the whammy bar to make it dip. This setup also disallows pulling up on the bar to make notes go sharp. The main advantage to this setup is that you can do hard double stop bends mid-board and not go outta tune due to the bridge shifting on the bridge fulcrum screws.

I absolutely agree: the current crop of Korean and Indoniesian standard Squiers are an excellent value! YMMV.

Curious about the Tone controls. Which pups do they apply to? My guess is middle and neck. Is that right?

Thanks :?

John

Curious about the Tone controls. Which pups do they apply to? My guess is middle and neck. Is that right?

Thanks :?

John

Yes, that is correct. Also, easy to mod it several ways. A great stealth mod I really like on my strat is removing the middle tone control ( pot and all ) and dropping a deaf-eddie chromocaster switch in it's place. The lower tone control becomes a master tone control and the chromocaster ( 6 positions rotary switch that the original tone knob fit's back on ) add's a plethora of new tones. A simpler fatocaster V-2, V-2 or V-3 switch is also available. These allow you to access all three pickups, bridge and neck, along with various series in phase and series out of phase tones. Great fun!

I always opt turning the 2nd tone pot into a neck pup volume blender - this allows the bridge and neck pups on at the same time, for that Tele-like tone. Though you can reuse the 250k tone pot, it's better to change it out to 500k or 1meg.

My new Squire Strat Deluxe has a bit of static discharge when I play. I have Crate amps and use Boss and Ibanez pedals.

http://www.squierguitars.com/gear/show_zoom.php?matnr=0321660537&feature_id=0:1

http://www.squierguitars.com/gear/show_specs.php?product=0321660&feature_id=0:1

How well would this work?

http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/shielding/shield3.php

My Teles did the same, and the Tele Shielding from the GuitarNuts.Com site really helped. Not totally gone, but almost totally.

Alternative? I was thinking of getting a noise suppression pedal (Boss NS-2)

http://bossus.com/index.asp?pg=1&tmp=107

What works for you?

Thanks!

John

I remembered an old trick I used to have to do with a Squier Tele I owned at one time. I wiped the pickguard with a cling-free. It worked, so I did same to my Teles too!

John ;-)