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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I was wondering if its better for strings to go straight over the headstock, ala a telecaster, or to go out at a wide fan pattern, like some Gibson guitars, or to be sort of a compromise, like an ovation, with a slight left or right bend to the string from the nut to the tuner. I hope I explained this right. My instinct says that straight over or a slight bend is probably best.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that any angle that increases force on the nut would create additional sustain. |
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| I think that, for the most part, any time that you can avoid string trees, you are better off. |
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Location: closely held secret | I have to agree with Jeff.
I wouldn't be caught dead out on a limb with him, and I don't really want to agree with him, but I have to.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. GM |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Put your boots on boys, Hell has frozen over |
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Location: closely held secret | Don't be in such a hurry, sister. HWKMTWWTH and PTTSB haven't chimed in yet. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | On babicz guitars they do that fan thing with the strings attached in a large fan at the lower bout, as the guy who runs the company told me (at the MPL in NYC last October) it spreads the vibrations more across the soundboard, makes it vibrate more. Great playing guitars by the way.
I don't know if this applies to the neck though.
I don't like string trees either and I agree with tilting the headstock to get more sustain, but it's that fanning out that looks aweful, but may be of use. Just curious. |
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Location: North Idaho | Breedlove makes a big deal of their strange design holding the strings straighter. Maybe this is second best to a slothead. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Originally posted by tdeej:
Maybe this is second best to a slothead. Blasphemy :mad: |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | A trick with the telecaster headstock is doing a behind the nut bend. You can't do that with a gibson. However, I don't do that too often, so it's not an issue. |
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Location: closely held secret | Oh, no.... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I do all my bending in front of the nut, too. |
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Location: North Idaho | I'd make a comment but I might be missinterpretted twice in one thread. :) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | In the big picture it really doesn't make a rat's ass but provides for some really good Marketing Rhetoric about what is better. My two cents is that the straighter the better and a 14 degree peghead is about right for the tension. String trees are to be avoided but on a Tele/strat they're necessary. All that said I've played some really good sounding guitars that go against all this. |
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Advice on Headstocks and tuner placement
