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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:12 am
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I can understand not leaving a guitar unstrung for a long (or short) period of time. But it does not take long to take em all of clean your fretboard and restring. I would be interested in learning how many guitars were damaged because of not restringing 1 string at a time. C'mon. :roll:


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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:14 am
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I wouldn't recommend it. I mean, it's not going to ruin the guitar but the idea here is to keep things as stable and consistant as possible. Like you wouldn't take it out in the cold or store it in front of a window with a tone of sunshine beaming on it.

I've even known players that will only change one string at a time for the very same reason. In a perfect world, nothing would change... temp, RH, barometric pressure, amount of light, pressure on the neck, g-forces (angle that the guitar is stored at), etc. etc.


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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:36 pm
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No worry man! I saw your LOL after I wrote my bit and suddenly felt that I was moving in the wrong direction but left it anyway - my bad!


Thank for understaning. I was warned before moving to LA to get signed first. Most of my running mates back home have albums out now and the best I've been able to achieve here is some session work in the studio. Otherwise I'm gigging most nights. It really is feast or famine for me so I honestly can't stop playing if I want to eat and have a place to sleep. I guess that where those feelings came from.

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stoni wrote:
ratboy wrote:
I can understand not leaving a guitar unstrung for a long (or short) period of time. But it does not take long to take em all of clean your fretboard and restring. I would be interested in learning how many guitars were damaged because of not restringing 1 string at a time. C'mon. :roll:


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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:50 am
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Strataholic wrote:
There are a couple of additional issues that come to mind:

1) If you take all the strings off, you'll need to remove the back plate as the access hole(s) in the backplate won't align with the holes in the trem block. If you remove one string at a time, the holes in the backplate should remain in alignment with the holes in the trem block.

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2) When removing strings, either one-by-one or all in one go, follow this order to lessen stress on the neck: 1,6,2,5,3,4.


and up have turn this sequence? Cheers :wink:


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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:53 am
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Let's also consider the opposite. Tuning your guitar to pitch and then not playing it for months or years on end... I think this is even worse!


That's the difference between a collector and a musician. A collector can afford to do that. Real musicians need to play their instrument in order to eat and have a place to sleep :lol:



With all due respect, I'm not sure I agree with your definition of a "real musician". Some of the best musicians I've ever known have had no sense of how to make any money with their music... even when they were gigging!

No offense, but I really can't accept your statement concerning collectors either. Look at all the gorgeous collections in this forum alone! I know you've read the threads; these collectors play ALL their guitars!!

No problem though, I know where you're coming from. You get these rich cats that spend a bazillion bucks and buy up all the cool vintage pieces and then lock them away in a vault... crimes against the working musician!! We know who the real guitar lovers are... US poor guys, real musicians or otherwise!


I guess my veiw was a bit extreme but it was meant in jest hence the laughing face. I'll tread more lightly.


No worry man! I saw your LOL after I wrote my bit and suddenly felt that I was moving in the wrong direction but left it anyway - my bad!


Remember that Joe Satriani went somewhat 'kicking and screaming' into the actual music business - after, of course, teaching such horrid guitarists as Kirk Hammett, Steve Vai, Alex Skolnick, and others. He was a 'real musician' way before he was making money for his virtuosity. :) <-note smiley.


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