AcornHouse
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Session man Tim Pierce picked up a Guild M-80 at Norman’s.
It's the normal M-80 stoptail piece. But somebody mounted probably a wooden shim under it to get it higher up and hence get lower string tension.Looks like a huge stop-tail on that M-80.
It's the normal M-80 stoptail piece. But somebody mounted probably a wooden shim under it to get it higher up and hence get lower string tension.
Ralf
Hmmm, now that you mention it, I wonder if Ralph meant to say or imply something else?Hello
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
"Lower string tension"
- If we talk the tension between saddle and nut, then tha wood block has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Hair splitting on my part perhaps, but shouldn't this read:String tension between a distance "X" on a string with cauge "Y" is constant regardless of what is outside support points - in this case bridge and nut.-
Right, because the saddle is the fulcrum of a lever created by the string between the saddle and the pin or anchor point (stoptail) and the break angle determines the force multiplication the lever is applying at the fulcrum.If we talk of the string pressure on bridge/saddle - then it affects it.
Yes, I guess that is what I tried saying. It's the same as people use wraparound tailpieces on Les Pauls and Bluesbirds. Nuuska is right, it has nothing to do with string tension in theory, but by adding the wooden block the tailpiece is still tightly fixed to the body but is lifted in a way a stoptailpiece would be lifted of the body to achieve less string break angle. And less string angle first can mean less broken strings when bending a lot and it can give a more "slinky" feeling. The reduced break angle will make fretting feel easier and bends easier, but the distance needed to bend to a specific pitch will now be greater.... perhaps he was trying to describe that strings with a flatter angle over the saddles would be easier to bend?
It's true the increased height had me scratching my head a little, because it would seem counterproductive, but with the typical gauges of electrics it's probably irrelevant and may even aid bending by exaggerating the pitch shift so one doesn't actually have to bend "so far"? (across a fret once fretted, as opposed to action height at that fret)The reduced break angle will make fretting feel easier and bends easier, but the distance needed to bend to a specific pitch will now be greater.
Ralf
Hello
Al - you are correct about me forgetting to mention PITCH :watermelon:
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Now you need to go back to Airplane's Build-a-Thunderbird thread and tell him what the "Matrix" connection is.
I left 100 bonus points hangin' out there for you.
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Bragging rights and do-overs on the Song Title Game thread.Thanks for giving me chance to gain 100 points . . . can we use those for something . . . ? on this forum . . .?
PM sent.I sent him a proposition - it has to do with where he is going to. Other than that I can not come up with anything. My imagination is very limited. And Finnish is so different from English and German. Those two are almost clones of each other from Finnish point of view. . .
So go ahead and start planning how to use them bonus points .