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[Sadlander]

I'm so happy that I found this video!!!

I bought a strat style guitar for 50 bucks in a pawnshop. It was *ugly* but I took off the neck, cleaned the fretboard, filed and polished the frets and did what I could with the body. At the end, it looked like...not new but like a cool guitar.
Then it hit me: the high e-string was barely over the fretboard!

I was about to remove the bridge, fill the holes and make new holes to align the bridge! For some reason, before I started doing that, I thought _"I don't think there's another way to fix this but, why not"_ and opened Youtube and...

Man, you saved me so much work and time!!
Thank you!!!

[donaldwrissler]

An easy fix that is hard to explain to someone without an in-person demo. Good Job.

[dale]

Phil, you're awesome! You are single handedly responsible for my foray into fixing/modding guitars. (This also makes you responsible for the 4 new guitars I own or so I've told my wife.)

[emmettnoble]

I got my new Fender Stratocaster yesterday which was close to $3000. And I was very disappointed that I couldn't play lead with it. I had this problem also with the hight E string. I thought I will have to pay to ship this back to Sweetwater to get fix. Then I found you!! Your video made me smile. I realize that I had hope now thanks to you.
Thanks again!

Emmett

[henryrodriguez]

I had brought a Fender SRV loaded body and when I attached a neck, the same thing with the low E string. After the 12th fret, the string was off the frets basically on the nubs.
I was going to take it to a Luthier and today lo and behold you pop up with this advise. And it worked. The neck and strings line up perfectly. Thank you.

[jeffmartinaz]

Well, I'll be damned! I have a $5k+ custom guitar that arrived at my home today with the high E a little out of whack. Don't want to name the builder (EVERYONE would know who this player/builder is), and I was definitely not going to call him up and complain. Was hoping for a quick fix. Phil...you're the man. Thanks!

[Diver]

God bless you! I have almost sent back my fender pro 2 strat back to shop. Thougt what a hell, doesn't look right. Thanks, you saved my day and my brand new guitar🙂

[MBvolcom]

Suddenly thought I turned on a Chef John video

[jimwake]

Literally have been looking at a guitar with this exact problem all week fretting (Pun absolutely intended) about how I can fix it. Glad to see it's significantly less of an issue than i expected!

[peterlukacs]

I was just getting ready to re-drill my bridge. I am amazed that this actually worked but it did. Now I know my gear that much more. Thank you very much!

[prettyboyfreud]

Thank you. My partscaster was driving me crazy. Now it is much better.

[pandemonet]

My love for my Squire Bullet Strat just upped a hundred times!

[beginner_electric_guitar]

Depending on which side the misalignment is you can place a shim on the side of the pocket. And then re-tighten the bolts. A piece of sand paper or thick paper will do. I think this will make for more of a permanent solution.

[stevenvazquez]

I have a Fender Jazz Bass. I had the some exact problem. So I used the some fix technique you used on this video. And my Bass is fixed as good as I can get it now, because it was pretty bad. Now It's much, much straighter. Thanks for helping me fix my unaligned Bass.👍

[MrWraptorgraphics]

Thank you Phil for posting this video, you just saved my new telecaster from being returned

[chris_]

Have seen this quite often on higher end strats as well, especially after shipping to drier or colder environments. Very simple fix as demonstrated here.

[jcrojas]

Thanks, had a build and it was doing the exact same thing.. your steps were simple and detailed so I had no issues following the steps and it corrected mine. Which it was the Low E that was off set.. 😎👍 thanks again..

[TheMerc]

Listened to your live yesterday, you mentioned this video...my 1 year old MIM Telecaster plays like a new guitar today thanks to this video! As always, thanks Phil!

[markbrown]

I recently bought a Fender 50s Roadworn Stratocaster with 59 pickups. It sounded great but needed setting up. I love the sound and feel of this guitar! Although I am a player of 41 years experience and am happy to set up my own guitars, I paid a local guitar shop to set it up. They had to remove the neck to adjust the truss rod because it has the truss rod adjustment at the base. I wasn't sure if this was correct, you would obviously know best, but when it was returned, you guessed it, the high E string was almost off the fretboard! The intonation was spot on but neck relief was a little iffy too! The tremolo was floating, but floated a little too much so I adjusted that correctly. I was quite upset about the string alignment but YOU HAVE SOLVED THAT PROBLEM FOR ME. So simple! THANK YOU! Moral of the story - if you want a job doing properly do it yourself - with your help of course!

[donjoseph]

That was awesome you can add Wolfgang standard to the list since it’s made by fender. I’m happy that’s gonna brother thank you!!!! 🙌🙌🤛 also your the only one I found addressing this issue!