Strat recovery.

SawaotheBuster

Yes, been a while since I have posted. But I have been wondering about my broken Fender strat(Standard Strat #MN1022655). I completely took it apart. found a couple of interesting things

should it say Squier?

cleaned em up a bit, but I think I need to really get in there to get rid of the crackling.

Everything looks right I guess...

Here is probably the source of my problems. These input jack solder pieces are not solder in...

Yep, gonna try to resolder those things, but does anyone see anything I should fix?And about that Squier thing, I called fender and they said that at that time, they did that a lot...

should I repaint the guitar?

Gavin

Give us a shot of the whole thing. If there's no major damage to the paintwork, I say leave it. CAR is cool.

matte30is

My old 92 mim strat had squier stamped on it as well. I heard they just used a bunch of old squier bodies they had left over when they first started making the mim's in the early 90's.

Bob_the_godly_dude

That selector switch isn't a standard Fender one is it? Aren't the fender ones round? I'm probably wrong though. And the colour is lovely man, only paint it if it's badly battered like Gavin said.

SawaotheBuster

paint is fine, And after thinkin about it, the color IS nice. I originally wanted to paint it Olympic White, or some other white, cause I really like white guitars.

Well the real problem(after cleaning the pots and resoldering bad joints) is the frets, they are pretty bad, where anything on the 2nd and 3rd string sounds dead, and at the 12th, they don't even play. how do I re-level it, do I use emery cloth to level it...refreting is out of question, cause of price.

here is the whole thing pre-taken apart

it is more of a metallic red than CAR i think

AquaHarmonix

save up 50$ and get a refret

the guitar will play great

otherwise get some 200grit sandpaper

1. take a black marker and mark a line across each fret

sand until the line is no more

2. get some 600 grit and find sand it

SawaotheBuster

wow 50... all my local stores said 100 minimum... hmm I blame inflation. Well thanks for the advice people.

SawaotheBuster

One more quick question about any problems that may come if I do this

Instead of leveling each fret to an equal distance from the board, is it possible to taper the treble side of the frets so it goes like this...

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regular possible?

of course that is a crude interpretation, but it is the general idea