Lostagain
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Just an immobilised finger that's going to take some time to get right. Frustratingly we are having good weather and I daren't risk riding my bike in case I come off and damage the finger.
The Bassist and Guitarist thread
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Sounds like your chainsaw-juggling career came to a premature finish...!
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
DCBassman
Guru
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- The lumpy far South West
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Hofner Shorty bass ordered. The end of lockdown is on the horizon so I'll be travelling down to my Dad's more often. Shorty bass, Tascam bass trainer, headphones, sorted.
Cycleops
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- Accra, Ghana
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Some Fenders had a hole in the scrstchplate into which an L shaped tool could be insetedmto make the adjustment, However, most did not.
DCBassman
Guru
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- The lumpy far South West
The reasoning is simple enough. Leo, ever the get-it-done-with-the-least-materials kind of guy, had the truss rod adjust that end so he didn't need a separate angled headstock with the traditional cover plate. The very first examples of what would be the Telecaster has no truss rod at all - Leo thought the rock maple would withstand the strings on its own. His failure was to not understand that wood moves, slowly, but it moves. As saleman Don Randall's samples gradually became unplayable, he relented, and the skunk stripe was born.
Xipe Totec
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- Between The Thirteen And The Nine
Meanwhile, in Japan...
Which is fine until the little gearbox breaks and you're reduced to removing the neck & grubbing around with a 10mm spanner to try & adjust it.
Which is fine until the little gearbox breaks and you're reduced to removing the neck & grubbing around with a 10mm spanner to try & adjust it.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
My 'Tele' has the micro adjust for neck angle there, no need to muck about with shims if the neck angle needs resetting. Not only that the grubscrew pressing against the metal plate in the neck is meant to give better contact and improve sustain
Xipe Totec
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- Between The Thirteen And The Nine
This is quite a different thing. The truss rod adjusts through the hole with an allen key. I think Gretsch/Baldwin used a similar system at one point.
It'll end up with a 10mm nut on that thread one day!
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Leo was famously tight. When Fender started to expand he moved to bigger premises, and he took the lino from the old workshop floor with him. He then used it to make the dot inlays on many instruments!
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Question for the bass players (@Drago @DCBassman @Cycleops)
new nut and string tree arrived today... but the slots don't line up
I could file out the D & E slots in the tree to give a straight run to the machine head (cutting it fine on the D)... or just cut myself a nut that matches the string tree's spacing of 9mm (same as the old nut) ???
new nut and string tree arrived today... but the slots don't line up
I could file out the D & E slots in the tree to give a straight run to the machine head (cutting it fine on the D)... or just cut myself a nut that matches the string tree's spacing of 9mm (same as the old nut) ???
Cycleops
Legendary Member
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- Accra, Ghana
I don't think it's critical is it? It's only there to pull the strings down before it goes through the nut.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I'm not entirely sure... but from an aesthetic point of view it might look a bit odd having the E and D string nipped in towards the A
