Fender Stratocaster Manual. How to buy, maintain and set up the worldŽs most popular electric guitar

Second Edition

For over 50 years Leo Fender's legendary Stratocaster has defined the shape and sound of the electric guitar. Here is the Haynes practical manual on the Ferrari of its class.

This easy-to-use manual offers advice on how to get the best from your Strat, be it a budget Chinese Squier or the best the Corona Custom shop can deliver. With step-by-step guidance and clear colour photographs, subjects include changing pickups, adjusting a truss rod and understanding some great stage rigs.

For this fully revised second edition, additional coverage includes the American Standard, the Tremsetter, updated serial number information and "key player" analysis of the Strats played by Buddy Guy and David Gilmour. Four new case studies have been added covering the digital VG-Strat, an affordable "road worn", the rare and wonderful Strat XII and a custom-made Pete Townshend piezo-equipped Strat. Case studies also examine in detail everything from a '54 US-built Classic to Indonesian, Japanese, Mexican and Chinese variants. Hank Marvin supplies a foreword and there are "Tech Tip" contributions from Eric Clapton's and Mark Knopfler's guitar technicians as well as highly respected guitar specialists John Diggins and Andy Gibson.

CONTENIDO:

Foreword

Introduction

A classic Strat

Buying a Fender Stratocaster
-New Stratocaster
-Other Strat options
-Second-hand Stratocaster

Know your vintage Strat

Know your "American Standard"

Setting up and tuning
-Bridge adjustment
-Neck adjustment
-Replacing Kluson tuners
-Tremolo/Vibrato alignment
-Tuning

Repairs, maintenance & adjustments
-Safety first
-Tools and working facilities
-Essential gig bag accessories
-It's worth doing a little maintenance
-Stageside repairs
-Three-monthly checks
-Earthing and RF induction issues
-Paint and lacquer repairs
-"String guide" variants
-"Hard tail" options
-Pickup replacement
-Pickup height settings
-Volume controls
-Nut adjustment
-Pickup selection options and rewriting
-Truss rod adjustment

Specific case studies
-Case study variants
-USA-made '54 Custom Shop
-USA-made '57 Vintage Reissue
-Chinese-made Squier
-Mexican-made "Fat Strat"
-Indonesian-made "Standard" Squier
-Custom Shop Eric Clapton
-USA-made '74 Vintage Reissue
-Japanese-made 50th Anniversary
-Fender American Series 2005
-Chinese "Standard" Squier
-Japanese-made Fender Stratocaster XII
-USA-made Fender VG Stratocaster
-Mexican-made "Road Worn" '60s Stratocaster
-USA-made Pete Townshend "acoustic"-equipped Stratocaster

Key Strat players and their guitars
-Buddy Holly
-Buddy Guy
-Hank Marvin
-Eric Clapton 1
-David Jon Gilmour CBE
-The Beatles
-Jimi Hendrix
-Eric Clapton 2
-Mark Knopfler
-Jeff Beck
-Stevie Ray Vaughan
-Eric Clapton 3

Appendices

Glossary

Useful contacts

Acknowledgements

Index