Bruce's Decision to Play a Stratocaster

[Iain Purdon]

Question here. At what stage did they decide to get Jim Burns to design a Strat copy that would stay in tune? Because if it was while the Fenders were red, these were replaced by the white ones for a year or so. These must have been no better. Suggests to me that the faulty batch theory doesn't cover it.

[JimN]

Question here. At what stage did they decide to get Jim Burns to design a Strat copy that would stay in tune? Because if it was while the Fenders were red, these were replaced by the white ones for a year or so. These must have been no better. Suggests to me that the faulty batch theory doesn't cover it.

Give that man a large coconut.

[Didier]

Question here. At what stage did they decide to get Jim Burns to design a Strat copy that would stay in tune? Because if it was while the Fenders were red, these were replaced by the white ones for a year or so. These must have been no better. Suggests to me that the faulty batch theory doesn't cover it.

In fact they were pushed to promote the "Buy British" slogan of this time...

Didier

[Paul Childs]

If the bridge saddles were in a neat straight line they wouldn't have left the Fender factory like it so why did they alter them if not many people knew about setups back then? Would have been best to leave them alone.

Bruce used to worry about his Strat going out of tune but Hanks would have been more out of tune with constant use of the tremelo arm.

[cockroach]

Iain,

You may be right!

My bandmate had a 1962 Rosewood fingerboard Strat (Fiesta Red too!)which we both used and shared for playing lead in the band (along with my 1963 Esquire) in 1970/1 or so...the only tuning problems were due to the daft super light gauge strings which everyone used back then...

[Hank2k]

I've only ever seen one pic of the white strats in the burns book, has anyone got any other pics of them?

[Paul Childs]

There has never been any mention about Jet or Licorice having tuning or intonation problems with the Precision basses?

[RayL]

In the preamble to the Burns Marvin section of that very-valuable radio program It Was In Tune When I Bought It, Hank mentions that Bruce's Strat had three new necks in an attempt to cure the tuning problem.

Ray

[Iain Purdon]

There has never been any mention about Jet or Licorice having tuning or intonation problems with the Precision basses?

I assume that's because the P-basses were fine

[donna plasky]

This photo is from Mark Cunningham's "Bruce Welch Tribute" facebook page. I liked it so much I thought I'd post a copy, since we were talking about Bruce's guitars, etc.

Kind regards,
Donna

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