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GMC Forum _ CHILL OUT _ Nooo Got To Send My Guitar To Fender:o

Posted by: Jesse Jul 18 2008, 07:23 AM

.. So I actually just got my stratocaster, like 2 weeks ago, and the tremolo beeps. There is a kink in the middle spring. Now we have to send it to fender, might take 2 weeks. That's bad, I only have like 4 weeks left of summer holiday!
Now I have to play on my good "compared to the fender" crap epiphone SG.

Posted by: Marcus Lavendell Jul 18 2008, 07:46 AM

Sorry to hear this

But if you just need to replace the middle spring, that's very easy. Only takes a few minutes.

Posted by: superize Jul 18 2008, 08:30 AM

Thats too bad

But lucky that you got a spare guitar

Posted by: Muris Varajic Jul 18 2008, 12:50 PM

Yeah,if it's only spring then no need
to send it to factory or som,
it might take too long to get it back fixed

Posted by: Caelumamittendum Jul 18 2008, 01:26 PM

Yeah, I'm with the others on this one too. Springs are easily fixed. You could get a new spring in the local guitar shop and have them help you with it.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jul 18 2008, 02:13 PM

Can you post a picture of that issue? I don't know what "kink" is, but as others say - springs are very cheap, you can buy them anywhere and easy to replace.

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Jul 18 2008, 02:29 PM

QUOTE (Ivan Milenkovic @ Jul 18 2008, 02:13 PM)

Can you post a picture of that issue? I don't know what "kink" is, but as others say - springs are very cheap, you can buy them anywhere and easy to replace.

A kink is meaning a flaw in the string. So it might have been stretched too far pasts its limit and wont go back or it may have an odd deviation in the coil. Or I could be compeltely wrong.

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jul 18 2008, 05:05 PM

These kind of stuff happens on Strats, after all they are factory models, lots of them being mass produced, and errors may occur here and there. Luckily enough these errors are often only trivial and because of that miss the eye of an inspector, so they are most likely to be fixed easily.

Posted by: SEANCD2005 Jul 18 2008, 07:52 PM

sorry to hear that

Posted by: Jesse Jul 19 2008, 06:10 PM

QUOTE (Ivan Milenkovic @ Jul 18 2008, 03:13 PM)

Can you post a picture of that issue? I don't know what "kink" is, but as others say - springs are very cheap, you can buy them anywhere and easy to replace.

Yep. I got it back already. Sorry . That old guy at store said first, yeeeeeeeeeeh we can bend the bridge a bit but I dont wanna do that so it has to go too fender. Second time we come hes like oh I got a spring here . Done. xD So I got my guitar back, I had myself prepared for 2 weeks without my new fender

Maybe Im getting 2 springs more later on "I got 3 now" because I might move on to 0.11 and 0.12 strings for thick bluesy sounds.