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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2023
- Ed O'Brien, the famous Hollywood actor never designed guitars but if he had done, I'm sure he wouldn't have put the truss rod adjuster in the heel. Ed O'Brien, the famous Radiohead guitarist, does and he did. Honestly.
Joking aside, it's a big issue. The whole point of the truss rod is for you to be able to make small adjustments throughout the year to counter any seasonal changes to your guitar's neck relief curve... so why make that difficult to do, particularly when there's no good reason for it? Sigh.
That was my only major issue with this guitar. The presence of hills and valleys in the neck under load is common to almost all the guitars I see, so I can't single this one out for criticism on that front. The sustainer pickup in the neck position is an interesting choice and would inspire even the lousiest guitarist (me) to experiment with ways to make it work. After that you've got a Strat with a nice, club-like neck. Looks great and - with the sustainer circuitry off - sounds great too. The sustainer circuitry DOES seem to change the tone of all the pickups (unless my ears were fooling me...) and it definitely robs the neck pickup of its flutey 'clang' that makes it so 'Stratty'. But it's easy enough to switch it on and off so there's no reason to leave it on throughout.The sustainer has 3 settings - each of which produces or enhances a different harmonic from the original note. More inspiration that infuriation. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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Great job, thanks for taking time out to share the set up, cheers!
Thanks Darren - apologies for the delay in replying!
Nicely done 👍
Thanks 👍
Hi Sam
That’s a nice Strat you got there, haven’t seen you for a while, we’ve had no internet for a while as it got taken down from a storm, I’ve started making a Tele type guitar and am still yet to make one with the pickup’s I got from you…
Hope your self and family are keeping well, keep up the good work…
Dion New Zealand 🇳🇿
Hi Dion, we’re all good thanks :) give my best to NZ
I've always fancied one of these, but didn't realise about the truss rod adjuster placement. Ridiculous choice IMHO.
I own this model and love it. I think the reason for the truss rod placement is that if you want this 10-56 shape, this is the available neck at Fender. (I think it's the same as on the Clapton signature Strat?). On the upside, I only had to do an adjustment once, and using available parts makes the guitar affordable as far as signature models go. By the way, with the sustainer on, you're always on the bridge pickup, regardless of pickup switch position.
Yes - I learned that after doing this run of Fender 'signature' models based on the vintage spec... It's vintage but annoying. Just like that lousy jack socket with the clawed clip supposedly holding it tight inside the tunnel. Yuk. Roll on progress...
Great job, and lovely looking strat. Apart from the truss rod adjuster that is!
Thanks! Apparently many (some?) of these strats have slots cut into the wood between the back of the neck pocket and the neck pickup rout so that you can file out a section of the pickguard to reveal the truss rod adjuster and insert a long 'L' shaped screwdriver to adjust... That's IF your customer wants that visual change to their pickguard. Hmm.
@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars Yes I've seen some of those - I really can't understand a 'designer' accepting such a bad method of adjusting something that really needs to be done on the fly!
@@paintbox48 Yep. It would be interesting to know if there's a technical reason why heel-adjustment might be better (or easier or cheaper) than headstock end adjustment. Any ideas?
I want one
I wish Fender wouldn't do that 'overspray' thing on the frets though. I've had to change my workshop practice recently so that any gloss-finished maple Fender board that comes for re-fret will have the original fingerboard finish stripped back to wood and re-finished before pressing the new frets. I got tired of giving back ugly re-frets that I couldn't make perfect thanks to Fender's cost-cutting factory process.
Cheers for the info on the drawbacks of locking tuners, (just bought a guitar with them). That horrific truss rod placement is a deal killer for me, cant believe Ed O'Brian actually selected an obsolete feature on purpose. Guitarded!
I own one of these and yeah the truss rod placement is "Guitarded" but the rest of the guitar is amazing. By the way, I'm stealing that phrase (Guitarded) lol - I know many guitarists, myself included, who fall into that bracket at times 😎
@@martin-1965 IFIK TH-camr/guitar collector Scott Grove invented the term "Guitarded".
"You dumb m***********rs" - another Scott Grove-ism :-) Odd but good guy. I agree with almost everything he says guitar-wise!
@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars Leave it Sam. I wrote the comment.
Libs won’t like that one!
Just wanted to say hello and hope you and yours are doing well.
Thank you. We're all good here!
I have Locking Tuners on ALL of my Guitars and love them to death! No problems whatsoever in 35+ years 🙂 Oh, i always put at least a half to one wrap around the posts before tightening just for the sake to be able to slaken them if needed.
I don’t hate them… I just don’t find they give me enough payoff for the damage done to clamp the strings and they don’t improve tuning stability in my experience. But glad you agree with me on that extra centimetre or so of wind-on :)
That's not how you're supposed to string your guitar when you have locking tuners.
@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars in my experience they improve tuning stability significantly.
@@n0nyabznss listen to Sam's and my own experiences with that! You can leave those extra windings off. But you are losing benefits (incl. less string breakage)!
I don’t understand whats the downfall of the truss rod tbh. Thanks for the video!
I don't understand your comment exactly... but you're welcome.
I mean, I don't get what's wrong with the truss rod placement. Does it even affect tone?@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars
@@htdc31 it makes it harder to set up properly and adjust periodically than a truss rod that adjusts at the headstock end :)
If the truss rod adjustment is at the headstock, one can adjust it quickly. When it is at the heel, one has to remove the strings and neck (or loosen in a hacky way - depress trem, loosen screws). So its just a matter of speed. Some guitars have a divot cut out at the body to allow a screw in there when the neck is on.
Hi Sam, I thought the Ed O’Brien sig was a semi-hollow with an F hole in the upper part of the body, or is that the US sig. 😳
Or someone else’s sig entirely… 🤪
Google told me it was white with the sustainer thang... that's good enough for me! How's things old fellah? Hope you're well.
Nice boots Sam x
Sorry Steve missed this comment - you must mean my er... 'garden' boots? Must have been my 'Napoleon Dynamite' moment...
@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars
I like em x
@@5tever7272 Cheap and furry on the inside :D
@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars
Oh you flirt x
Warm, innit. ''Locking tuners break strings'', have that one on me.
Yeah I figured that's why I've never put any on none of my ax's
Well, the half-break them by definition. Force-clamping metal against metal isn't my idea of good anchoring.
Don't want to hassle with the Fernandez sustainer ? Get a DigiTech Freqout pedal.
that truss rod adj location has totally turned me off to buying this strat.
But, but, but....it's true to the original design! :D
Who?🤔
I know the actor better than the guitarist :)
Ah the joys of demonstrating something on video, that's an almost dead cert for the thing not to do what one wanted.
When I first saw this guitar I thought "Ah, that's where Simon's guitar is now", then I realised that the only thing in common with his guitar were the white body, maple neck and Fender branding.
Some of those sustained harmonics could be very good at setting off all the local dogs.....
nut de plastico trastes pequeños clavijero mala calidad... 1.500 E no.
Without using Google translate I'd guess "A plastic nut on a €1500 guitar?? Are you mad??" :D