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Location: Riverside, CA | I'm applying what I learned from the Ovation set-up video to sprucing up my Taiwanese made Yamaha 400A guitar. The guitar is 20+ years old and has endured some neglect from myself and my step-son. I'm in the process of restringing the guitar and I'm having a hard time getting the bridge pin to stay put in the hole when I tighten the low E string. It's had this problem in the past and I've been able to get it to stay by putting a bit of thick paper in the hole with the pin. It's not working so far this time. I'm using new bridge pins thinking they would solve this problem. Any advice or tricks you can share will be greatly appreciated.
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Location: Snåsa, Norway | Maybe this Plate Mate from StewMac can be a solution? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Plate Mate won't help. That's for guitars where the bridge plate is worn and will no longer catch the ball end. My understanding of Stu's problem is that the bridge itself is worn such that the pins won't secure in the holes. I have seen a few companies offer "oversized" pins for this purpose. They are just ever so slightly larger diameter (maybe 0.05mm) and should stick better. Just beware not to use them on a guitar with out this problem becasue you'll pre-maturely enlarge the pin holes. Dave
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bridges,_tailpieces/Acoustic_guitar_bri... |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Maybe the end of the string is catching on the end of the pin. If so:
1) Try bending the end of the string so that it will end up in front of the bottom of the pin.
2) Or bevel the end of the pin (towards the slot). |
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Location: PDX | Dave must of posted that long a$$ link just to piss moody off. Nice work.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | What's wrong with the link? |
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Location: PDX | Originally posted by Tupperware:
What's wrong with the link? Nothing
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Oh now I get it. Sorry for not following the rules according to the book of moody ...
THIS IS THE LINK TO THE STEWMAC WEBPAGE SHOWING OVERSIZED BRIDGE PINS GO READ IT AND YOU WILL FIND WHAT YOU NEED THERE AND MOODY CAN KISS MY ASS |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Also, do yourself a favor and buy the book Guitar Player:Guitar Repair by Dan Erlewine (sp). They have a couple of pages on your problem, and Dan is the guy who wrote the info on the stew mac website. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | "Ovation set-up video"? |
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Bridge Pin Slippage Question
