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Location: big island | i am now on my fifth set of strings since getting my W597 a few months ago. i cannot get the high e string to ring true. i noticed this from the get-go with the factory installed strings too. it is almost like there is a slight damper on it somewhere keeping it from sustaining properly and deadening the ring. probably a saddle or nut alteration?
clues or advice please. mahalo!
edit: since it seems better when fretted, it must be the nut. |
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Location: closely held secret | Ok, get out the Dremel tool, and... no, wait. That's for bridge adjustments...
I think the nut is your problem. Sounds like the string is not snug in the slot. |
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Location: big island | perhaps the slot needs work? |
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Location: closely held secret | Um... yes, you could phrase it that way, Randy. Be prepared for this thread to take a sharp left hand turn, though... |
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Location: big island | especially if jeff w gets involved. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Hit the nut with a nut file to make sure the slot is clean and that the contact is at the rear most part of the nut, next to the f/b. |
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Location: big island | wish i had a nut file (shut up, jeffw) |
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Location: closely held secret | Schuga, we're not supposed to post innuendo anymore. |
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Location: big island | i suppose the blade of my pocketknife will have to suffice.
thanks for the suggestion schuga! |
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Location: big island | i believe the slot had some burrs. it was not cleanly cut/filed. string be ringing now. mahalos! |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Let this be a lesson to us all to give their nuts a little attention every now and then. Just be sure that your slot is clean and your strings will be ringing too. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Uh, what I meant to say was a slot with burrs will screw your nuts up. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Uh, Jeeesh, who do I ask to delete messages? |
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Location: big island | and what would a man do without a pocketknife? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | ...fly on an airline... |
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Location: big island | :D |
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...fly on an airline... Sharp!!!! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Here's my rant:
We keep trying to regulate and make rules so that people can't do bad things. I like to carry my 2" pocket knife. Feel naked without it. Had to leave it all behind on the flights to the Tour.
YSBT!
Give me a couple of sharp number 2 pencils and a bad attitude and I could rob a bank! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | hey now...most accountants prefer to pilfer the (usually large) company they actually work for, not banks. Why make the extra trip? I like to think we're an efficient bunch but most just call us lazy (among other things). |
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Location: closely held secret | I take my Leatherman tool just about everywhere. When flying I just put it in my checked bag. Coming back from the Tour last year, it somehow wound up in my backpack. It was at the bottom, and the pack was so full of audio cables and other metal stuff (frown: "Sir, you have a lot of metal in here!) that they emptied it, but they didn't dig to the bottom. I thought I had left it in the hotel room until I emptied the pack at home and found it.
When I flew to Boise to pick up my GoldWing, I found out what happens when you book a one-way flight the day before it leaves, and show up wearing a leather jacket and carrying a single leather bag... ("Sir? Step over here, please..." |
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String Won't Ring
