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Re: Graphtec saddles and a properly cut nut,...(m)

10/23/1999 8:25 PM
Steve A.	Re: Graphtec saddles and a properly cut nut,...(m) -Y: In my experience, Sperzels and other locking tuners have been no better than Schallers and Grovers about keeping in tune. If you crazy with dive bombs on a strat without a locking nut, the Sperzels will definitely make a difference. But for regular playing, the notched Fender style pegs seem to stay in tune very well. I also have another strat with a Wilkenson tremelo bridge and unmarked locking tuners- although the strings remains firmly attached to the pegs, some of the pegs will rotate if you yank up on the strings... Steve Ahola P.S. I had a guitar that kept going out of tune... what was unusual was that the pitch would get higher. Whoa! Turns out that the strings were binding on the nut which I had replaced with one made out of graphite. (This guitar has a HipShot Trilogy bridge which can raise and lower each string to one of 3 pitches that you set yourself with an allen wrench. It was actually harder to tune that bridge than to install it: the neck flexs a bit as the tension changes when you raise and lower different strings. So you really can't get that many different tunings from it that are automatically in tune- the "three" implied by the Trilogy name is a reasonable estimate of its capabilities. I was hoping to get maybe a dozen different tunings from it- sort of like a pedal steel guitar- but a pedal steel guitar neck does not flex like a regular guitar neck.)

10/23/1999 8:25 PM

Steve A.

Re: Graphtec saddles and a properly cut nut,...(m)

-Y:

In my experience, Sperzels and other locking tuners have been no better than Schallers and Grovers about keeping in tune.

If you crazy with dive bombs on a strat without a locking nut, the Sperzels will definitely make a difference. But for regular playing, the notched Fender style pegs seem to stay in tune very well. I also have another strat with a Wilkenson tremelo bridge and unmarked locking tuners- although the strings remains firmly attached to the pegs, some of the pegs will rotate if you yank up on the strings...

Steve Ahola

P.S. I had a guitar that kept going out of tune... what was unusual was that the pitch would get *higher*. Whoa! Turns out that the strings were binding on the nut which I had replaced with one made out of graphite. (This guitar has a HipShot Trilogy bridge which can raise and lower each string to one of 3 pitches that you set yourself with an allen wrench. It was actually harder to tune that bridge than to install it: the neck flexs a bit as the tension changes when you raise and lower different strings. So you really can't get that many different tunings from it that are automatically in tune- the "three" implied by the Trilogy name is a reasonable estimate of its capabilities. I was hoping to get maybe a dozen different tunings from it- sort of like a pedal steel guitar- but a pedal steel guitar neck does not flex like a regular guitar neck.)