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Mike wrote:
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Mike wrote:What the fuck is the matter with you people? Since when was stringing a guitar an ardous task?

Fuck String Winders.

Do you put on your shoes with ShoeHorns every morning?
I know, why would you ever spend $2.50 on a something that makes a task take half as much time. Also if you have an acoustic they're great for pulling out string pegs with out fucking them up
Why would you want to halve the time it takes to string up a guitar (and I'm not sure I spend half my time winding up the strings, if you wind them around the pegs correctly you have to take out minimum slack)?

I enjoy stringing and sprucing up my guitar, I finad it relaxing.
well working in a guitar shop I has to make it quick, but I don't actually own one at home so I actually kinda agree. just another thing to loose
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BacchusPaul wrote:
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Mike wrote:Do you put on your shoes with ShoeHorns every morning?
i'm actually thinking of making a shoe horn. what sort of materials would you guys recommend? bone or plastic? maybe i could get hold of some ivory and make it the old fashioned way. bear in mind i'm pretty much a shoe horn noob, but i'm keen to learn how it's done.

i know there are probably websites out there dedicated specifically to shoe horn manufacture and all that goes with it, but i can't be bothered spending 5 seconds typing my requirements into a search engine.

help me people!
You should make one like this:
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I just pay a homeless gentleman to wind my strings.
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My fingers do the trick
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chrisplayer7 wrote:(posting lots of messages to get onto other forum)
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chrisplayer7 wrote:My fingers do the trick (posting lots of messages to get onto other forum)
Don't Do That.
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I want to check out mike's pedals
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Check them out on youtube. Seriously.

The 50 post limit is not there so you can postwhore and get in, it's so you have to invest some real time to the community first. I'll just delete anything you post that is spurious, so there is no point.
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Sorry. You can checkout all my other posts, all genuine.
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You are from Brighton.
The Classifieds if full of Danelectro pedals.
It's not the place for you.
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In fairness, this fella's posting has been fine. It's not as if he's been running around the place posting shite in dead threads. I think we're maybe a bit paranoid following that nsv ballbag.

Although, I reckon for the sake of getting on with the board, Chris ought to leave it a while before posting in the classifieds. If he goes in straight away, it'll confrim people's suspcions. Leave it for a month or two.
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Mike wrote:I enjoy stringing and sprucing up my guitar, I finad it relaxing.
+1, i enjoy taking me time to do it.

plus i used to do it fast and being the twat i am every other restring i'd do something very wrong like put the wrong string on the wrong peg or wind it backwards.

when my ibanez took a floor dive i was in the process of changing strings and the dive took out one of the machine heads i decided to string it up anyway while i waited for the new tuners (it was me only electric at the time so it was that or nothing) and i was so preoccupied with the broken tuner business that i managed to tune the d string one octave higher than normal.

it EXPLODED, i've never heard a string sound like a gunshot before or since.
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BacchusPaul wrote:In fairness, this fella's posting has been fine. It's not as if he's been running around the place posting shite in dead threads. I think we're maybe a bit paranoid following that nsv ballbag.

Although, I reckon for the sake of getting on with the board, Chris ought to leave it a while before posting in the classifieds. If he goes in straight away, it'll confrim people's suspcions. Leave it for a month or two.
Flooding the board with posts to get into Classifies wins noone friends.
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Post by euan »

You only really need about 3 turns to keep a string in tune. Maybe a bit more for the high e. I find I don't need a string winder to get a string wound quickly.
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euan wrote:You only really need about 3 turns to keep a string in tune. Maybe a bit more for the high e. I find I don't need a string winder to get a string wound quickly.
Like I said, if you need one, you're stringing the guitar wrong. You cut to the right length and make the right number of wraps and the winding is arbirary.
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Now I'm loathe to post in my own thread which was created to say fuck off with all the what's the best threads, but: I do use a string winder. Firstly because it makes those few turns on the peg smooth and regular, which helps with your tuning a smidge if you use the trem a lot, and secondly because I've got big sausage fingers and end up detuning all the other machine heads and clouting my knuckles if I don't use it.

Also, I reckon that Chris Brighton fella's OK really. Let's be nice to noobs, but keep a wind eye on the classifieds, as we say at sea.
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Post by Mike »

I'm not being un-nice. It's good to have new people around. I'm just saying don't flood the forum with posts to get into Classifieds, it's hardly like it's a utopia of BRO DEALS anyway.

Just chill your boots and enjoy shortscale.