Neck Tilt: Fender Stratocaster Setup

Video Transcript

"THE FERRET: All right, so we're in the middle of setting up this guitar, and sometimes, when you run out of room to adjust things on the bridge, you also notice on some guitars, you'll have a tilt adjustment on the neck. What this allows you to do, is actually tilt the neck, and by tilting the neck, that gives you more range of how to set the saddles, and the bridge post down here. So, on this guitar we're going to need to tilt that neck just a little bit, so what we're going to do is we're just going to slightly loosen, just a little bit, these four neck plate screws right here. And that's going to give us some room to tilt the neck with the same Allen wrench, that we used on the neck, for neck adjustment. We just put it in the whole and we turn it clockwise, I'm going to give it about a half turn, just under a half turn, and then I can tighten these screws back up. I'm going to tighten the top ones first, and then the bottom ones to where they're just tight, and then I'm going to reevaluate the neck angle. Now, doing that is going to make the string action lower, so that if I need more room to bring the saddles up here, I could do that. And that's exactly the case, so now, I can bring the saddles back up to compensate for the neck angle. I've got a lot more room to work with for setting the action of the guitar."