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Re: The Guitar Topic - B
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: Ballard on 26 Apr 2009, 22:47 ---Oh are we talking about the red and black Airline? I assumed he meant the one attached to his post.
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Yeah, the redburst one. The white is just inspiration.
BaneAtvar:
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Clicky.
For those who may be interested, and own stoptail guitars, this is pretty interesting (and was news for me). Apparently, Mr. Billy Gibbons has used this reverse string-wrap for some time with his '59 Les Paul, the Pearly Gates. We all know that's like the best sounding LP there is (subjective, blah blah blah).
Basically this works in the following way. If you have a stoptail bridge, you either have the tail risen to high, and therefore not as much resonance passes to the body as if you had it locked shut next to the body. Having it that low means the strings will lay on the bridge before reaching the saddles causing loss of sustain and from my experiencie an overall loss of high-end harmonics. Having it this way increases sustain and clarity of the guitar, at the cost of having to bend further to reach a certain pitch. It was hardly noticeable to me though. Here's a website explaining it all.
http://www.dominocs.com/AshBassGuitar/stoptailwrap.html
Lummer:
--- Quote from: BaneAtvar on 27 Apr 2009, 16:17 ---Pearly Gates. We all know that's like the best sounding LP there is (because it fuckin' is).
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Fix'd
Anyways, I did that wrapover-thing on my LP a while ago, and I ended up knocking the low E out the saddle constantly. Now I have it regular, but I still have the stoptail all the way down. Mmm, tension.
BaneAtvar:
--- Quote from: Lummer on 27 Apr 2009, 16:24 ---
--- Quote from: BaneAtvar on 27 Apr 2009, 16:17 ---Pearly Gates. We all know that's like the best sounding LP there is (because it fuckin' is).
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Fix'd
Anyways, I did that wrapover-thing on my LP a while ago, and I ended up knocking the low E out the saddle constantly. Now I have it regular, but I still have the stoptail all the way down. Mmm, tension.
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I do that all the time on my freaking Jazzmaster. Apparently 0.053 E string isnt okay with Jazzmaster Saddles. I'll just cut the saddle groove a bit wider, you could have done that with your LP. I like tension, but t'was the loss of sustain that was annoying me. I mean, I don't need a sustainer now, get me? It just rings. Full clean, on a Blues Junior, mind you. It's awesome.
zerobar:
Yeah, I know a guy at our local shop that uses that with his Les Pauls. He plays in a death metal band, and as such, tunes super low. He uses super thick gauge strings and wraps it like that so it doesn't feel like spaghetti tuned down that low. I really find screwing with string tension kinda interesting. Like the way reverse head stocks will get you better bass sustain and response and easier string bends, at the sacrifice of high note sustain. Kinda would like to play around with ferrule placement on string throughs and see what results would work the best (if I had a guitar I wouldn't mind screwing up and had time to do it)
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