Hi guys, this is the problem im facing, basically, my cousin had a cheap strat copy laying around in her garage. She gave it to me as im the "big" guitar player in the family, and i've discovered I may have a little gem on my hands if I can correct some small manufacturing errors. The earth wire is soldered onto one of the "fingers" of the trem claw, easily fixed, I know, biggest thing is, there seem to be a few issues which im wondering may be causing the tuning issues it has? Number one, you can clearly see the end of the strings protruding through the saddles, im thinking the trem block is too small, or is this completely normal? and Number 2, the machine heads are really stiff, even when tuning really low, which ive tried to remedy with a little lube etc. I just swapped out the nut for a graphite replacement, which works REALLY well, so again, I'm just wondering if these issues (minus the trem claw) would cause the guitar to not hold its tuning for very long, if i should leave them to settle again after installing the new nut?
Any opinions much appreciated.
ER
