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What is the easiest electric guitar to maintain? I'm mostly worried about intonation. Is there any electric guitar in particular that's easy to keep properly intonated, or at least intonate easily if you have to? | |
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coolcat said: I'm mostly worried about intonation. Is there any electric guitar in particular that's easy to keep properly intonated, or at least intonate easily if you have to?
Anything with a stop tailpiece and adjustable bridge saddles. Stay away from bigsby tremeloes, old tele's with one sadlle for two strings, floating tremeloes etc. That said, buy any decent guitar, have a luthier set it up and you needn't worry about intonantion for years. | |
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EuroCinema said: coolcat said: I'm mostly worried about intonation. Is there any electric guitar in particular that's easy to keep properly intonated, or at least intonate easily if you have to?
Anything with a stop tailpiece and adjustable bridge saddles. Stay away from bigsby tremeloes, old tele's with one sadlle for two strings, floating tremeloes etc. That said, buy any decent guitar, have a luthier set it up and you needn't worry about intonantion for years. Thanks EuroCinema!  | |
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Telecaster with a 6 saddle bridge, as EuroCinema kinda alludes to. Or a hardtail stratocaster.
Any stop bridge that looks kinda like this, with six individual saddles: 
is a piece of cake to adjust. All you'll need is a philips-head screwdriver if you want to adjust intonation. | |
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From my experience Fenders require less setup & maintenance than Gibsons.
Like Euro said, if you get something decent, they're pretty worry free. Now, tube amps... My Legacy
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coolcat said: I'm mostly worried about intonation. Is there any electric guitar in particular that's easy to keep properly intonated, or at least intonate easily if you have to?
I would highly suggest a Dan Electro 78 Tonemastercastwer, that thing sings like Sanjaya but with perfect intonataion!!!!! Ilove your music ....you should be hearing from Prince in 4 days ....i passed it along and he flippped out !!!!! Oh yea the dan electro has a 41157 tone bar withan auto intone droppack so youll be set!!!! [Edited 4/5/07 7:38am] | |
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Diosuni said: coolcat said: I'm mostly worried about intonation. Is there any electric guitar in particular that's easy to keep properly intonated, or at least intonate easily if you have to?
I would highly suggest a Dan Electro 78 Tonemastercastwer, that thing sings like Sanjaya but with perfect intonataion!!!!! Ilove your music ....you should be hearing from Prince in 4 days ....i passed it along and he flippped out !!!!! Oh yea the dan electro has a 41157 tone bar withan auto intone droppack so youll be set!!!! [Edited 4/5/07 7:38am] Thanks for the compliment and suggestion. Will I really hear from Prince?  | |
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don't bet on the call from Prince but the easiest guitar to maintain is the one you spend a little money on (and then get it set-up). Unless you're into that whole locking tremolo Floyd Rose thing... | |
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