kluson tuner string up for the noobz

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kluson tuner string up for the noobz

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[GVideo]http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?doc ... 3&hl=en-GB[/GVideo]

Whenever any noob asks about why they are having problems with klusons. give them this video please.
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Hurb, I salute you.
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Woah. I've never noticed the strings coming unwound before but they're doing it on my jag looking at it.
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benecol wrote:Hurb, I salute you.
cheers man.
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Zaphod wrote:Woah. I've never noticed the strings coming unwound before but they're doing it on my jag looking at it.
Yeah, I never snap a string, but I did start noticing them unwinding and when I was using the trem (harshly) thats when I would get them unwinding and I would loose the string. I had thought about solder for a while...and then I came across someone suggesting it online somewhere and I tried it. it has been very successful so far. worth a try if you are having problems, if not don't bother.
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It's overdue for a string change anyway so it might just be the length of time they've been on there, not had any problem with it yet though.
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Zaphod wrote:It's overdue for a string change anyway so it might just be the length of time they've been on there, not had any problem with it yet though.
Quite possibly, It's something I do so I included it. but I am probably an extreme case because of my trem usage. if your strings aren't snapping and you have no tuning issues then there isn't much point in doing it.
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Very cool.
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haha, come to think of it we could do tutorials for stringing up all types of guitars with different bridges, different tuners


what i don't understand, though, is that when you buy a guitar as a noob, but it has strings on it, at one point you're gonna change the strings, but you have an example how the strings should go on right ? because there were strings on there in the first place... i don't get it.
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heavium wrote:haha, come to think of it we could do tutorials for stringing up all types of guitars with different bridges, different tuners


what i don't understand, though, is that when you buy a guitar as a noob, but it has strings on it, at one point you're gonna change the strings, but you have an example how the strings should go on right ? because there were strings on there in the first place... i don't get it.
I agree, I'm sure I was slightly perplexed at the tuners first time I saw them...but I has no internets or people to ask when I first came across them..so I must of just figured it out myself. everything in that video is stuff I have learned myself...I didn't learn it from anyone else. so I wonder why other people find it so hard. but then again I still find basic English grammar hard to get right. so we all have our strengths and weaknesses. just thank fuck for firefox spell checker. :lol:
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I remember the last time I strung up my Mustang I forgot how to. The last time being at the first Doogfest.
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Excellent.

Sticky worthy for the noobulicious crowd.
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euan wrote:I remember the last time I strung up my Mustang I forgot how to. The last time being at the first Doogfest.
I remember looking at you like.. WTF.
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I have moments of just forgetting everything. I'm really good at doing it.

I forget words all the time and I try to describe them. Like I'll forget chair and manically start saying thing you sit on.
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I made it wrong the last 15 years. I prefer to have a little more string wound around the tuner, so a string can be repaired when it breaks somewhere near the bridge.
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Post by malko »

Nice one! This drove me mental recently as i'd never had a guitar with vintage tuners before! The high E is a bastid and slips out if you're not careful. A winder defo helps speed up the process
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ha ha ha, hlysht i just watched this.

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Reece wrote:Woah. I've never noticed the strings coming unwound before but they're doing it on my jag looking at it.
same thing can happen on a mustang, or rather the coiling will sort of pull apart where the string dips under the tailpiece. good tip hurb.
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Hurb's soldering tip just saved me having to buy a new thin E on a set I put on my Jazzy like last week.

THAT BITCH IS FIXED AND SITTING PRETTY, THANKS HURB!

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Nice one doog!