danktat
Award winning tattoo artist ... Amateur guitarist
In the immortal words of Albert King (In session with SRV), it was "Time to put a set of new strings on the gitfiddle". With a gig this coming Saturday, and studio work starting that next Friday, it had to be done. I haven't changed them in well over 6 months.
So, here was the thing. I got done, and was playing it and out of nowhere, right after the string change, the A string was buzzing like a busted chainsaw. I did a little fiddling around with the saddle, and after getting frustrated, went RIGHT TO my secondary guitar tech (my primary is out of town on vacation). There was no way in H*LL I could have that, a few days out from a gig, and a week and a half from recording! After going over everything, you know what it was...??? It was a flawed string. Somehow, there ended up being extra winding on the overwind. Almost twice as far up the string as usual (all of the wound strings were that way). Popped a new string on there (along with the other two wound strings just to be sure) and viola!! Sounds as good as she is supposed to
So, here was the thing. I got done, and was playing it and out of nowhere, right after the string change, the A string was buzzing like a busted chainsaw. I did a little fiddling around with the saddle, and after getting frustrated, went RIGHT TO my secondary guitar tech (my primary is out of town on vacation). There was no way in H*LL I could have that, a few days out from a gig, and a week and a half from recording! After going over everything, you know what it was...??? It was a flawed string. Somehow, there ended up being extra winding on the overwind. Almost twice as far up the string as usual (all of the wound strings were that way). Popped a new string on there (along with the other two wound strings just to be sure) and viola!! Sounds as good as she is supposed to