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Fender Stealth String Retainer Bass

4.4 out of 5 stars from 48 customer ratings

Stealth String Retainer

  • Fits most vintage and modern four- and five-string Fender basses
  • Eliminates string bangs on the electric bass
  • Increases the angle between the tuners and the nut, providing greater tension, a safer position and greater stability
  • The bracket also replaces the washer on the B, E or A string tuner and eliminates the need for additional hardware mounting
  • Used on most American Deluxe and Dimension basses
Available since September 2017
Item number 419044
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17,60 €
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31 Reviews

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Works as advertised but pricey
basadam 27.09.2019
This is specifically for Fender American basses that use threaded nuts but I'm told it works equally well with Hipshot Ultralites. It works as advertised to increase the break angle between nut and tuner. It seems sturdy enough not to break or bend under pressure.

With the old style tapered (not fluted-shaft) tuners the improvement was marginal at best, carefully winding the string around the post will fix most (if not all) problems without needing this piece of gadget.

But the fluted-shaft tuners seem to have an inherent problem, in which the string sits higher than desired no matter what. Stealth retainer really helps with these tuners, which brings the question: Should Fender charge separately for something that fixes their design problem?

In summary, this is a quality product which does what it's supposed to do but it should be available at a lot less price.
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Only for tuners with top side big screws
Tamas the Tamas 05.03.2023
The purpose of this thing is to keep the lower strings in place on a Precision Bass headstock, becasuse the guitar desing results very straigth string laying. When playing hard, the low strings may jump out from the nut. As I had this problem, I decided to buy the string retainers, originally for a Squire CV70 bass. The tuners of that guitar are simply pressed and glued into position with the small screw on the back side. Also the Squire tuners diameter is bigger than the retainers, so had to enlarge the holes. This cased some scratches (my bad, though!). When I finished assembling the string retainers and tuned again the strings, the tension picked up the unfixed retainers and resulted a disaster look.
Later moved the retainers onto a Fender American Performer. Its tuners have big fixing screws on the headstock top side and these screws helped keeping the retainers in place. And in this case they work perfectly, provided a good slope for the lower strings, so they did not jump out from the nut during playing.
The tuners' mechanic is recommended to consider before purhasing the retainers. If OK, just buy it and enjoy the slope of the E-A strings.
Recommended.
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A nice stealthy Fender drop-in solution
Jernej V. 06.02.2021
I ordered this product for my Fender USA Standard 2005 Bass.

It was a direct replacement for the washer on the tuner. The product works well enough, it corrects the string angle making it closer to other strings. The angle could be a bit steeper but the functionality is not compromised.

CON: The angle could be a bit steeper.
PRO: It works nontheless.
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Bass string retainer
Tony 1 07.08.2022
Unfortunately the retainer do not fit my Squier bass which does not have the nut to fix it to the pole. I keep it for the time in the future when I will onw a bass suitable for my string retainer, as for now it is a nice sourvenir.
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