How To Set Up A Telecaster

[@TumbleweedRancher]

Thanks for the setup and wiring help. A shim demonstration would be helpful.

[@georg.camerone56]

Great video! Been playing for 45 years, and I have ended up preffering the exact same setup on my Fender guitars as yours, and I use the same for slide (B, C, D & E open tunings!). Great to be vindicated - you da man!

[@tangerinesrock90038]

Dylan you are the man! This was so useful! Been struggling with my tele for years

[@norseman61]

Definitely do a neck shim video, please!

[@shadowminister4090]

Thanks, Dylan. I always love the techie stuff 😊

[@Glicksman1]

My preference is for very little relief on all of my guitars. My way of checking if it's where I want it is to fret the first and fourteenth frets. Then I push the sixth string down at the fifth fret. What I want is to hear a ”click” indicating a very slight space between the string and the fretboard. Then I do the same on the first string as well. If I hear the “click” on both strings, I'm good. If I can feel it move more than that, or see a larger space, it’s time for a truss-rod adjustment. Yeah, I hate the heel truss-rod adjustment, too, but what the hell? To get to the heel truss-rod screw head on a Tele you don’t have to take the neck off. Just remove the pickguard to expose the screw end. You can do this without removing the strings, just unscrew it and slide it off. On a Strat, it’s a different matter as removing the pickguard which holds the pickups means that the strings must be removed as well. Some carve a little semi-circle out of the Strat’s pickguard at the truss-rod screw so that a screwdriver can get in there, but this is not likely something that most owners would do on a pristine vintage piece. I was fortunate as a former owner of my ’62 had done this already, although I wouldn’t hesitate to carve that little semi-circle into the pickguard on a new one. It’s a bit of a chore to get a screwdriver end in there, but it works, and I don’t have to take the neck off of that Strat to adjust the truss rod.

[@Krispy1011]

Yes - do a neck shim video

[@MichaelBethke-ni6zb]

I enjoy your vedios! Can you make a vedio on sitting up a new neck. I would like to buy a guitar new neck ,but do not know about getting a neck that fits my Telecaster body?

[@guitarguru4492]

Love the color. My Nolatone amp is that color.

[@Tony_Leonardi.]

Enjoy the set up videos thank you

[@ramsilva]

Hey Dylan, where’s the 100k subscriber giveaway link?

[@jimungerbuehler4201]

Dyan, I have a question for you. Can you wire from the pickup to the tone pot then the switck to volume pot then ooutput

[@rogerYT69]

cool thx! have the same tele and it's awesome😊

[@gaetandube3036]

Question: since you had to change your intonation, should you go back to adjust your string action since adjusting the intonation will change the length of the string and theoretically the string action Therefore looping between string action and intonation until both are set to the desired value desired value.

[@georg.camerone56]

Yes to shim vid :)

[@ltgray2780]

Some tips on setting up a lightning bar wrap tail bridge would be great. Just got a great deal on an Epiphone IBG Les Paul Special. 2024 model. I'm disabled and financially challenged, but going to save up for one of your P90's. Gonna' take a while, but I'll get there.

[@rodrich1644]

Shouldn't you set the string height before measuring the nut?

[@avalanchekiddo]

I'm a newbie, but I've also heard this. Does the order matter at all?

[@markpell8979]

Seems like your initial nut slot heights had .016 for the G. After you filed the nut slots you said all strings had .020 clearance. Did you fill the G slot or just leave that one at 16 and call it good? Because actually that wouldn't be bad.

[@DylanTalksTone]

I left it

[@markpell8979]

@@DylanTalksTone roger that, good decision, thanks!

[@SergioFigaroa]

How far can you bend on the high e before it frets out? Whole setup, step and a half? (Around the 12th fret)

[@DylanTalksTone]

As far as I want really

[@SergioFigaroa]

@@DylanTalksTone I have the mahogany version, but can’t reach 2 whole steps even with high action. One whole step is tough with low action.

[@mikeurban7635]

Shim video please

[@jonathanvelazquez1938]

Shim away please

[@alfredomunozavila]

👌🔥

[@alfredomunozavila]

I buy my 1st telecaster american pro ii pickups where very off to low i used my ears to set it up but i would like to know the factory height to know if i'm close 😊

[@billfrost4603]

Have an American pro2. Shouldn't be that different.

[@gordonplatter9162]

What our ears hear can't tell if it is 100% intonated