I put Planet Waves Autotrim tuners on my SLSMG not too long ago, but it still doesn't stay in tune any better than it did before. G string always goes out after bends, etc. Any idea what I can do?
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How to get a string through guitar to stay in tune???
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Here is a good way to string the guitar.
http://www.fretnotguitarrepair.com/stringing.htm
make sure the string does not bind in the nut slot. Any pinging you hear while tuning indicates binding. If you get pinging the slot should be opened up a bit. You can buy nut files yourself or take it to someone. Also, you might find using pencil lead in the nut slots helps keep things sliding nicely.
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Originally posted by DumpyWumpy View PostThey're locking tuners, there is no winding to worry about.
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Is there an easy way to lubricate the nut? Is that possibly the issue? Or maybe the tuners are turning themselves flat when I bend?? I don't know, it seems ridiculous for them to go out of tune when Carvin builds guitars with locking tuners instead of locking nuts on their Floyded guitars all the time.
CharvelRocker, even if I wanted to, I can't put windings on the tuner, they are PlanetWaves Autotrim tuners, they cut the string as soon as I start turning the peg. Locking tuners don't lock in place, they have a pin inside of them that raises when you turn a thumbscrew on the back that clamps the string in the tuner so that you can cut the end off with no windings and have the string hold in place. The point of a locking tuner is to have no winding at all on the post so you don't get slippage caused by the windings, as far as I know. I dunno, maybe they are working fine, I just expected a lot more. Anyone else used these tuners?
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Dumpy, get some graphite powder.
You can buy it at almost any hardware store.
http://www.acehardwaresuperstore.com...68.html?ref=42
Just put a little bit on the strings slots in the nut.-Rick
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Laugh all you want, but I saw the demonstration booth at NAMM and dude had this machine that would bend a string 100 times a minute (pulling the string sideways near the pickups), and it had run for so long the counter broke off of it after like 30K
I bought 2 bottles of it on the spot, though dude did seem a bit confused when he was explaining to me that the majority of string breakage occurs at the bridge, which is why you should oil the nut :ROTF:
Anyhoo, I haven't used it yet - gonna try it on my Les Paul one of these days
You don't need to make a special trip fro graphite powder - get a cheap pack o pencils from WalMart or something and bust them open, or the pack of replacement "leads" for mechanical pencils - those are graphite.I want to depart this world the same way I arrived; screaming and covered in someone else's blood
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ide check that the bridge posts arent moving. after that graphite in the nut slots. & i dont know planet waves but my sperzels 1/4 or 1/2 winding was enough to keep an old gretsch with a bigsby almost intune & thats a hefty feat for anyone who hasnt used a bigsby & old gretsch bridges suck.
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