Let's talk about that raised "G" pole piece on Strats

Honkridge

Honkridge

UNACCEPTABLE!
It was meant for a 7-1/4 radius and a wound G string. Yet Fender continues to use it on guitars that no longer have those specs...WHY?
 
I has nothing to do with the radius, the stagger poles were all about core width. And, yes, that math was thrown off every switched to Ernie ball and other light string sets in the late 1960s. But Strats and Teles the stagger pole/unwound G string is the combination used on so many classic albums – Hendrix, Clapton, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc. – and guitarists are (mostly older) traditionalists. Fender uses in on RI pickups because people want it to be as period-correct as possible, warts and all.
 
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Wyatt said:
I has nothing to do with the radius, the stagger poles were all about core width. And, yes, that math was thrown off every switched to Ernie ball and other light string sets in the late 1960s. But Strats and Teles the stagger pole/unwound G string is the combination used on so many classic albums – Hendrix, Clapton, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc. – and guitarists are (mostly older) traditionalists. Fender uses in on RI pickups because people want it to be as period-correct as possible, warts and all.
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My question was rhetorical. I'm just pointing out that Fender will sell you an antiquated design cause you will willingly buy it...and that kinda pisses me off. Personally I don't think Leo would have stood for the string imbalance of a raised G pole and modern strings gauges. But by 68 he was outta there...
 
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Honkridge said:
My question was rhetorical. I'm just pointing out that Fender will sell you an antiquated design cause you will willingly buy it...and that kinda pisses me off. Personally I don't think Leo would have stood for the string imbalance of a raised G pole and modern strings gauges. But by 68 he was outta there...
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Leo was still coming into work through '69, he had a retention contract to consult. Leo designed the bullet truss rod and 3-bolt micro-tilt neck plate that rolled out in 1970. Fender did go to flat poles in the mid-'70s, but the stagger poles came back with the 57/62 reissues that came out in 1982 and it became a choice. Modern Fenders (like the then-new American Standard) got flat, the RI got staggered.
 
smurfco said:
he did it to mock his father's micro-penis
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Or, maybe he did it to honor his mother's protruding clit. One way or another, he was obsessed with parental genitalia.

What if he was building big sex toys? Perhaps, the amps, guitars and pickups were all afterthoughts.

"Leo, that high watt sex machine you built is dangerous and could fry a persons sex organs! And, that giant dildo could give someone splinters!"

"Gosh. I had not considered those possibilities. Oh well. I'll turn these devices into musical instruments."
 
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