jon Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Damn you sirrah! To clarify my increasingly meandering point, if you have 8s on a guitar - possibly with relatively high frets - and you are not Jimmy Page, less experienced players are reasonably likely to bend them out of tune with an over-enthusiastic attempt at a chord. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Clearly we need to get Jimmy Page to have a shotty on this SG in order to diagnose the real problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Get me Boleskin Manor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 But his answer would be, its not a '59 Les Paul. Or, get a Dano.9s are ace, like a compromise between 8s and 10s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HateEvent Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 Seems you have already done all which I would have brought up (checked machinehead tightness, restrung properly, stretched in strings, graphite to the nut). The only other thing that could cause slipping as well would be if the nut slots have been opened up incorrectly from varying string gauge (I've seen many examples of people putting heavy strings - 12-56 for example - onto guitars that have the nut opened up for 10s.). This would cause some trouble. Normally a needle file is used to evenly open the slot rather than letting a thicker string dig in and opening up the slot in an unbalanced manner.If you are still struggling with it, I can easily have a look at it either in or outwith R&B if you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sloth Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 The only other thing that could cause slipping as well would be if the nut slots have been opened up incorrectly from varying string gauge (I've seen many examples of people putting heavy strings - 12-56 for example - onto guitars that have the nut opened up for 10s.). This would cause some trouble. Normally a needle file is used to evenly open the slot rather than letting a thicker string dig in and opening up the slot in an unbalanced manner.ooops! Ive done this quite a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HateEvent Posted February 9, 2010 Report Share Posted February 9, 2010 I know from experience as well dude - the Moon Explorer got a set of 12s for C# once and, when putting 10-46 back on for E, it caused major rattling with smaller gauges ever since.The small period of time in which I owned it with 12-56 in E made me feel very manly though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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