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Try to bring the tail of the bridge down, we've had threads on that.

When you flatten out the bridge, the strings will automatically pull back and become longer.

http://www.fender.com/support/stratocaster_setup_guide.php]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Blue Jay https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/3/#post-345258 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/3/#post-345250 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:44:03 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Scalar King https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/3/#post-345250 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345248 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:32:44 +0000
About the Strat intonation, the guys are right on, but it is just a shame to have to cut into a nut slot so soon AGAIN??? - yeah, it's another NEW guitar, but like they say, it happens.

Now, our colleagues here know that fat strings are considered to be shorter on the guitar, from their take off point to the end of vibration, at the nut - but that would be considering open strings to begin with. I kind of think that fretting a note should take the nut out of the equation, except yes, it stretches the string as Ricochet indicated, and that can be on both sides of your finger. So, fatter strings (big & wound) are always perceived by the guitar as being short, and short strings are always sharp. That's one quirk that I thought gnease was so cool to identify, when he showed a different and correct pattern for intonating rare wound vintage G strings. The guitar instinctively 'knows' that the wound G is actually not fatter, shorter and sharper. They're strange, with those attributes that gnease described.

Anyhow, I also wonder if the tail end of your bridge is too high, which may shorten string length most of the time, and the 6th E won't let you get away with that on a Strat. As you've seen, you are probably pulling the saddle back all the way and it remains sharp. Oh dear - some intonators are so desperate over this that they remove the spring there, which isn't so good, or they grind the saddle shorter. That shouldn't be done either. Perhaps your saddle is too high on the little hex screws. That will remain high as you fret a note, and isn't cancelled out, like the nut.

But following up with what the guys said, you can still opt to file your nut slot if required, it is quite possibly a overlying issue, and you could go to 9's for strings, or 9 - 42 lights, as if your guitar didn't come with them new - they're Fender's main choice. 'Cuz, try putting 10's on some time, and welcome to another nightmare and a set of new issues, but it doesn't have to be as bad as Ozzy's reality show, if you stick with your instincts and maybe get some advice here. :D

Just trying to help with illustration of the typical issue on the E string. Yours is probably like this. This one is drawn back, but functional. And I'll come back with American Standard too, in case?

]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Blue Jay https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345248 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345247 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:55:08 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance tinsmith https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345247 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345246 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:52:20 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345246 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345244 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:37:11 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345244 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345243 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:00:07 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Scalar King https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345243 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345241 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:44:49 +0000
I can always find a pic, and agree. :lol:

... and I knew you'd post one, so I didn't. :wink:]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345241 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345239 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:26:57 +0000
I can always find a pic, and agree. :lol:

]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance Blue Jay https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345239 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345238 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:15:20 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Scalar King https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/tone-volume-knob-static/paged/2/#post-345238