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"It's only when you get a guitar..."

That you realise that you know nothing about them.
:D

I have about a limited wannabe's knowledge of guitars, like I know what guitar I've got and that it's a strat and stuff but; what the hell are these things/what do they do:

Pick-up
Redresss the frets
Grub screws
Tone Pot


Also, anyone know any places on the web that tell you how to play?

Ican struggle my way through tabs but that's about it. No money can be expended by the way.
:)

Very_Metal wrote:
> you LOVE it you schliiiiiiig!
>
> .. you're still wrong though, Les Pauls rule.
> although i'm dipping my toes int he consumer paddling pool once more
> on a quest for a superstrat with a DECENT locking trem on it. maybe a
> 2nd hand JEM or similar, i'm getting into funky trem tricks...

My next guitar will either be the Ibanez RG370, or more likely a Jackson DKMG. ESP also do a few that have decent locking trems on them.

you're right bob mate.
the 2 "mid" postions that use 2 pickups create a slightly out of sync humbucker effect. slightly less twangy, but not as "round" as a traditional humbucker tone.

.. hope that made sense. well, even if it didn't, i'm right :D

right, the town beckons!!.. fare thee well funsters!
merry strumming! :)

I believe the two of the settings use both the middle and either the bridge or neck pickup but I may be wrong there.
They sound rubbish on mine.

Think it goes from top to bottom:
Neck
Neck/Middle
Middle
Middle/Bridge
Bridge

Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> It changes which pickup is being used.
>
> You should be able to guess that from the 'selector' bit.

Yeah, I did, but thing is, it's got 5 settings, but I only have 3 pickups.

Do some of the settings use two pickups?

Yeah.

It all makes sense now.

It changes which pickup is being used.

You should be able to guess that from the 'selector' bit.

The pickup switch?

Ah, so it's a pickup selecter.

Hmmmm.

It's funny, I've had my guitar 6 months now, and I still don't know what this one bit is called.

I know when it's down it gives a fuller note, and it's got 5 different settings.
It's down by the tones.

I think it moves one of the pickups up and down, so that it's closer/farther from the strings, but I don't really know, and I don't have a clue what its name is.

Clazon wrote:
> What the hell is a tremolo arm? What does it look like? Which part of
> the bridge does it come out of.

it's a bar that comes out the bottom.
[URL]http://www.merde.org/guitar/electric.gif[/URL] - this may help ya out :)

> oh, i know it's backtracking a little, but how can you denounce Les
> Pauls and have "the next slash" as a tagline?? that's just
> plain wrong! :)
>
> I did consider the irony before I put it there, but I feel there's a
> little more with calling myself the next Slash, than not liking Les
> Pauls.
> :D

hehe, fair play then!