Only two tools are needed to check neck relief — a capo and a feeler gauge.

Telecaster neck adjustment. We’ll look at basic tools needed,. If the neck is too concave (action too high), turn the truss rod nut clockwise to remove excess relief. As with all truly fine tele sets, my pickups.

Removing a neck to adjust the truss rod is a bit of a pain.  Many vintage instruments, like my 1979 fender mustang, have the truss rod adjustment on the body. 2) use a 0.050″ allen wrench to raise or lower the bridge saddles.

Pickup height adjustment is usually a pretty simple task on a telecaster. Fender also offers a double action truss rod adjustment wheel on all american elite models that makes it a snap to address neck relief. Affix the capo to the first fret and depress the high e string at the last fret (g.

Put a capo on the first fret, then hold the low e string to. Adjusting the neck on a bolt on neck with no adjustment in the headstock. Tightening the adjustment should straighten the neck out.

Watch the video and see how. To set a telecaster’s action. Some telecasters, however have a channel cut between the neck pocket and the front pickup cavity.

In part 2 of how to setup a fender telecaster, we continue to tackle the job of making this killer ‘52 reissue roadworthy. It's super easy to do. Traditionally, you have to remove the pickguard to adjust a tele neck pickup as it’s mounted to the body.