F 512 Oh, No!!!

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Brad, It's good to see that you take care of your guitars.
I commend you for doing that.
You have some top notch guitars and it sounds like they have a great home.
 

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Bill Ashton said:
As I remember, in that final room where they strung the guitars in NH, they were using an electric drill-thingy, weren't they?
I think you are right. I'll give it a shot, and if I still have trouble with a power winder, I'll bite the bullet and get two sets of Waverly gold open backs and swap them out.
Brad
 

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Taylor Martin Guild said:
Brad, It's good to see that you take care of your guitars.
I commend you for doing that.
You have some top notch guitars and it sounds like they have a great home.
Thanks, I try, even though my poor F-212 spent a decade or more in sleazy gin mills, I've done my best to keep any problems in good repair. As to my F-50, I consider it to be a "rescue guitar." I got it third hand around 1980, and it had been thoroughly abused by at least two former owners. It had light gauge flatwounds, buzzed like a bee, had gouges in the back of the neck (only recently rectified as much as possible), cuts in the body binding, neck binding in pieces (some in the case) and somehow the back of the body had some hard to remove red splotches (some are still there). Despite all that, it still sounded like an F-50, and because of its cosmetic condition I got it for about $100-150 less than the going price at the time.
Throughout it all, even the accident to my F-512, I try to remember that they are just tools, but that like any tool for any trade, they perform better if they are maintained.
Brad
 

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ouch, Brad! that hurts... sorry to hear it, but we've all been there.
sounds like the guitar survived, and that's what matters most...
.r
 

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Brad Little said:
I'll give it a shot, and if I still have trouble with a power winder, I'll bite the bullet and get two sets of Waverly gold open backs and swap them out.
Brad

Brad, we'll have none of that.

Your task is to figure out how to work with those slotted tuner posts and then tell the rest of us how to do it.
 

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devellis said:
Brad Little said:
I'll give it a shot, and if I still have trouble with a power winder, I'll bite the bullet and get two sets of Waverly gold open backs and swap them out.
Brad
Brad, we'll have none of that.
Your task is to figure out how to work with those slotted tuner posts and then tell the rest of us how to do it.
And if he's apprehended in the performance of his mission we'll all disavow any knowledge of him.
 

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I fear a Father's Day weekend trip to fair Connecticut may be in order to show the brother how to string the Fender tuning posts. :lol: Aside from the fact that you have twelve of them to do, you DO NOT need no stinkin' power winder...or badges either :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

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Bill Ashton said:
I fear a Father's Day weekend trip to fair Connecticut may be in order to show the brother how to string the Fender tuning posts. :lol: Aside from the fact that you have twelve of them to do, you DO NOT need no stinkin' power winder...or badges either :lol: :lol: :lol:
Wasn't there an Allman Brothers song..."'Tied to the Tuning Post" or something like that?
 

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Bill Ashton said:
I fear a Father's Day weekend trip to fair Connecticut may be in order to show the brother how to string the Fender tuning posts.
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that the Fender tuning posts had a locking mechanism in the "hole." The Gotohs do not.
Brad
 

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You are corrected...the Fender "safety tuners" (old name) do not have anything in the hole but darkness...there may be aother type of Fender locking tuner, but I am only aware of the style on the Jeff Beck or Strat-Plus strats, which has a large wheel on the back of the mechanism...but then, those look pretty much like a regular tuner (capstan with a hole).

There is a good explanation in Ritchie Fliegler's book (name escapes me, not the Amp one) with photos. That method is what I tried to describe previously. The wound strings shouldn't be any big deal, but the unwound can be fiddley, that is why I advised on the reverse wind to start (got this off the TDPRI website, years ago).
 

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Here it is...on Page 32

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Gu ... 0793534909

Though only part of the story, this is how I got started and I am sure you'll be off and running too. As previously, I found that it works much better if you make a "formal" 90-deg bend with pliers after an "informal" bend with fingers. He seems to do it the "informal" way... :)
 
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