Misc.

"Is your guitar in tune before/after a song, but not during?"



I solved that problem. I put on a new set of strings, tuned with a good tuner, then I crazy-glued my tuners!


Perfect!

Doesn't sound like you actually took the time to read, before posting that . . . ?

Doesn't sound like you actually took the time to read, before posting that . . . ?

Yes, I did actually. Your guitar likely needs a tune up by a good luthier, a fret dressing or a truss rod adjustment.

All it needed was a .015 "B" string, which solved the problem.

All it needed was a .015 "B" string, which solved the problem.

THANK YOU!@!!!!!

I just tried it on my current back-up and it worked VERY WELL.

Changing my main and the other one right now.

WOW, did you just bump into that one>?

"My B string is a thing of evil.. or it was"

Yeah, well I noticed how much that string was stretching when it sounded sharp.
That's gotta be a lot of extra tension . . . hence: sharp.
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I figured that a fatter string that didn't stretch as much would help . . .
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The 'Martin Extra Lights' and the 'Martin Custom Lights' - and the 'D'addarios,' also - all use a .014 "B" string.
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I bought a whole binch of .015 strings, separately, and anytime I install new strings, I put on one of the .015 strings and pack away the .014 that comes with the set.
Now I've got a bunch of new .014 strings. When I get ten of them, maybe I can arrange a swap . . .
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Sure makes a hell of a lot of difference, eh?
For me it was like night and day . . .

I have used nickel wound strings for about four years now. That's about 1 year after working in a scrapyard that bought materials others couldn't touch because they had no way of testing it's metallurgical content. We could and did, and I did. When metal comes in as scrap that you know what it was used for and for why these chemistries gave certain properties, qualities and effective efficiencies, you stick with what works. I will never use bronze. In elementary school our 4th grade class went to the museum. The curator told us bronze is a mix of copper and brass. To 4th graders,that may still be true but to a Spectrometer it consists of copper and zinc. Brass is of copper and zinc, and in the end bronze is essentially just copper and zinc and More zinc. Stainless steel is just as generic a word. Stainless consists of Chromium and nickel, with wide variations. neither of these stain of course, however chromium is hard and brittle, nickel gives flexibility, both are very temperature resistant. If you are putting your guitar through temperature changes that would effect stainless strings, you're asking for trouble anyways!