Geeze I get the prize today. I just changed my strings and damned if I didn't wind the B and E string the wrong way.
I had to take the B off because it was rubbing on the E post. I put it back on :huh: I hope it will be ok. I just left the E the way it is.
Thats what happens when you don't change strings often enough....
No worries man. I've been restringing guitars for 35 years and I still screw it up like that when I'm in a hurry sometimes. Once, I had the saddle off to sand the bottom and didn't put it back on before I started to string the E. Doh!
Now, when it gets THIS bad, better cut down to only two six packs per night.....
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Again,Hey I know that guy.......
ROTFLMAO! :lol:
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I knew I was stringing my guitar wrong...
And I knew there was some
SECRET[/size] to Orsino's playing... I will have to restring my guitar right away... Does this add to the sustain of the guitar Orsino or is that a secret too?
:lol:
I knew there was something else my open tunings were missing.
This method is extremely important when restringing BW guitars. Apparently the special properties of BW will only truly open up when torqued correctly.
For the ultimate tone from BW you should also make sure that this pattern is adhered to at the saddle.
OK, all you BW owners go give it a try and then report back to us on that "shimmer, sheen and depth" only possible from a correctly strung BW.
Can we have comments on if this method is more effective with a particular brand of string, pick, saddle, style of pick guard, tuner button material?
Anxiously awaiting your responses. :unsure:
Ron
This method is extremely important when restringing BW guitars. Apparently the special properties of BW will only truly open up when torqued correctly.
For the ultimate tone from BW you should also make sure that this pattern is adhered to at the saddle.
OK, all you BW owners go give it a try and then report back to us on that "shimmer, sheen and depth" only possible from a correctly strung BW.
Can we have comments on if this method is more effective with a particular brand of string, pick, saddle, style of pick guard, tuner button material?
Anxiously awaiting your responses. :unsure:
Ron
I have been laughing for 5 minutes. Geeze....thanks for the post.
QuoteGeeze I get the prize today. I just changed my strings and damned if I didn't wind the B and E string the wrong way.
I had to take the B off because it was rubbing on the E post. I put it back on :huh: I hope it will be ok. I just left the E the way it is.
I've never gotten the hang of stringing my guitars. I did the same thing! Also, I tried the technique from frets.com and ended up breaking the string at the tuning peg! :(
Everything is OK now, but thank God it was just a cheap set of Martin strings and not a set of Elixirs!
That is supposed to be a "secret striinging method" only to be shared by the the Larrivee Brotherhood of Blackwood. I'm sure it didn't work because it was applied to a pedestrian instrument like a Martin. It really works best if you use the little known FFFFFF tuning with all .056 E strings tuned to F above high C. You can get some pretty cool chords when strumming behind the nut with that arangement. Speaking of nuts.......