Strat Tuning Help....

[skorb]

I'm telling ya bro.

just do a google search, you'll have it in seconds. all guitar stores sell Big Bends or something similar.

you can always install locking tuners too, those really help tuning stability. if you don't make sure the strings are not binding in the nut, then locking tuners are a waste of money. the nut is primary.

which I tell my wife regularly

[straycat]

The nut if not cut right will cause the guitar to go out of tune.You need to polish the nut slots with 1000 grit sand paper or any dry lube like graphite.Big bends nut sauce is a fine product too.It sound like thats your problem.I doubt the trem is the problem.The clicking is the wound strings catching on a poorly cut nut slot,its really common on a strat style guitar.I doubt its the string tree I have never seen a string tree ever cause a problem.
I have worked on tons of fender nuts that were not properly finished.

[VitaminG]

the nut is primary.

which I tell my wife regularly

nice

[Orchid]

The nut if not cut right will cause the guitar to go out of tune.You need to polish the nut slots with 1000 grit sand paper or any dry lube like graphite.Big bends nut sauce is a fine product too.It sound like thats your problem.I doubt the trem is the problem.The clicking is the wound strings catching on a poorly cut nut slot,its really common on a strat style guitar.I doubt its the string tree I have never seen a string tree ever cause a problem.
I have worked on tons of fender nuts that were not properly finished.

Thanks guys, I'll definately try the nut sauce if this problem occurs with my new one, however it's not the wound strings that's catching. They're the treble ones.

[straycat]

Whatever.

[skorb]

any string can catch, not just wound strings.

[fett]

Whatever.

:ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF: :ROTF: Maybe the trem was not set up correctly out of the box. I just thought I would say something so I could get shot down too.

[JACKSONFREAK]

If the guys at the shop you bought it at didnt seat the strings fully in the bridge it will slip and ping also. the fender bullet strings are designed for strat trems. They seat properly all the way in the sustain block. If they used someting differnt than the ender strings some times the ball ends move and slip up into the string slot more and need to be retightened. IT sounds like a trem issue and not the nut. Give each string a good yank at the brindge end and see if they're seated right. If not there's your problem.
Gil

[kelly user]

actually joe's comment makes good sense

[Burn]

How many times are you going to change the story guy? First I hear B string, then it's all of them, now it's the treble side? Ok, apparently you aren't familiar with how to "properly" setup a guitar, and maybe it would be worth your change to have someone setup it up for you. Not an insult, but seriously.

[CharvelRocker]

Have you put new strings on it? I always put new strings on a guitar as soon as I get it.

[Orchid]

How many times are you going to change the story guy? First I hear B string, then it's all of them, now it's the treble side? Ok, apparently you aren't familiar with how to "properly" setup a guitar, and maybe it would be worth your change to have someone setup it up for you. Not an insult, but seriously.

I never changed the story once, I only added more details in later posts. I stated the B string as an example in the beginning, then added that all strings went out of tune, sparking my suspicions of the tremolo. The B string would be part of the treble side right? So what's new about that? I don't know what the hell you're trying to tell me, but everyone else's helped me alot with some great advice, while you somehow jump to the conclusion that I can't set up a guitar because I'm having some tuning issues. Please stay out of this.

[VitaminG]

the thing is, a problem that can cause one string to go out of tune can be entirely different to one that causes a bunch of strings to all go out of tune.

Burn has a point. If you had been specific in your first post (which I thought you had been, focussing on your problematic B string), then you would have your answer by now. Everyone had been offering suggestions to fix your B string problem, and then it turns out halfway down the thread that all of your strings are going out of tune, which would suggest that a different solution is required. Now it's the e, b & g strings going out of tune - does that mean you're not having the same problem with your e, a & d strings?

[fett]

Wow. Orchid. Your strat seems to be a hella-strat. Every Strat I own seems to work for me. US and all the world wide ones I own just need a little love. Does your trem lift about an 1/8 of an inch off the body? Are the springs at the right tension? Are the screws loose that hold the trem? Or are they too tight? You will drive yourself nuts if you can't figure it out yourself. Sounds like you need to pay a tech $100 to do what you can do yourself. I think we have been teched out. Deal with it.

[Burn]

Wow. Orchid. Your strat seems to be a hella-strat. Every Strat I own seems to work for me. US and all the world wide ones I own just need a little love. Does your trem lift about an 1/8 of an inch off the body? Are the springs at the right tension? Are the screws loose that hold the trem? Or are they too tight? You will drive yourself nuts if you can't figure it out yourself. Sounds like you need to pay a tech $100 to do what you can do yourself. I think we have been teched out. Deal with it.

Bravo!