Your biggest setup pet peeve is....?

[shreddermon]

Re: Your biggest setup pet peeve is....?

Bringing a guitar into a tech for an intonation ONLY, explicitly requesting that they NOT change anything else on the guitar, and having him completely f**k with your perfect-to-your-preferences set-up anyway. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

"Well, we charge a flat fee for a complete set-up and intonation, so I did you a favor by doing it all." Well, no d**kwad, you didn't! That's why I told you not to, and you obviously didn't listen to my instructions. Now it's going to take X number of hours to get the guitar's set-up back to my preferences, instead of YOUR'S. [img]/images/graemlins/eyes.gif[/img]

...Have I mentioned that I have yet to find a decent tech in my area? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[sully]

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Damn! That board looks drier than Oprah's ashy elbows. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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i'd say! now level them frets! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[mhalsey]

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Damn! That board looks drier than Oprah's ashy elbows. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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"OK" my ass [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img], that looks incredible! Helluva touch ya got there. Great job YAO! And that grain looks really tight. [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]

[Shawn Lutz]

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I hate it when the ball end is stuck through the tuner and there is a billion wraps around the post. It just looks shoddy.

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I do exactly that for 1 main reason. Usually when I break a string on one of my Floyds it is at the bridge. With the extra wraps on the tuners I can go cheap when I break a string and just unlock the nut, unwrap some string and lock it back down on the floyd and I am GOOD TO GO!!! Especially for my guitars that get played all the time at home. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

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Same here. I wrap as much as I can. I'm also from the school of the added string mass is good for tone of the guitar [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

I hate when people don't trim the excess string off at the headstock and it looks like a fukkin angry porcupine up there [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[paulbag]

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i can't do them myself! (yet) [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[VitaminG]

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I hate it when the ball end is stuck through the tuner and there is a billion wraps around the post. It just looks shoddy.

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I do exactly that for 1 main reason. Usually when I break a string on one of my Floyds it is at the bridge. With the extra wraps on the tuners I can go cheap when I break a string and just unlock the nut, unwrap some string and lock it back down on the floyd and I am GOOD TO GO!!! Especially for my guitars that get played all the time at home. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

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Same here. I wrap as much as I can. I'm also from the school of the added string mass is good for tone of the guitar [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

I hate when people don't trim the excess string off at the headstock and it looks like a fukkin angry porcupine up there [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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You don't like the harmonic overtones provided by the sympathetic vibrations of all that excess string, Shawn? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[mulder1966]

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On bolt ons when the shim is removed and the bridge is screwed so far down the rocking action of the bridge is impaired. Some people just don't get what a shim is all about.

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[YetAnotherOne]

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i'd say! now level them frets! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Yep, needs it but I'm not feeling that lucky. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[mstraughen]

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I hate seeing a beautiful guitar not looked after properly. When I got my Fusion, it was in a terrible state.. cleaned up beautifully though [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Bob From Accounting]

Re: Your biggest setup pet peeve is....?

* Strings backwards / Ball ends on tuning pegs
* When the screws for the truss rod cover are exactly under the string(s)
* Dirty fretboard [img]/images/graemlins/sick.gif[/img] @ that pic

[charvelguy]

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well at the present moment, its a bolt on neck that has been glued into the pocket.. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

what freakin dork would do this to a perfectly fine, non shifting neck? [img]/images/graemlins/eyes.gif[/img]

[Thoraby]

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well at the present moment, its a bolt on neck that has been glued into the pocket.. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

what freakin dork would do this to a perfectly fine, non shifting neck? [img]/images/graemlins/eyes.gif[/img]

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Ritchie Blackmore [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[mrsung]

Re: Your biggest setup pet peeve is....?

its not a big deal, but it bothers the hell out of me when people put the blocks on a locking nut sideways!! they're designed to work a certain way dammit!!

[charvelguy]

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ahh yeah, that is true, Blackmore did do that didn't he.
He walks on his strats and then smashes them too.

[nor]

Re: Your biggest setup pet peeve is....?

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I hate it when the ball end is stuck through the tuner and there is a billion wraps around the post. It just looks shoddy.

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I do exactly that for 1 main reason. Usually when I break a string on one of my Floyds it is at the bridge. With the extra wraps on the tuners I can go cheap when I break a string and just unlock the nut, unwrap some string and lock it back down on the floyd and I am GOOD TO GO!!! Especially for my guitars that get played all the time at home. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

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+1!!!!!
This has saved my butt dozens of times. My record is about 45 seconds.
Unlock - unlock - unwrap/pull - lock - tune - lock - fine tune.
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