I notice on both my Mustangs (US 66 and Japanese) that after I play a few minutes they go slightly out of tune, then if I pop the whammy they go back in tune, almost like a reset. These are strings that already stretched the heck out of too.
Anyone else experience this, or have a fix?
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:34 am
by benecol
They're binding at the nut as you play - file or sandpaper the nut a tiny bit (really, go gentle, just enough to smooth any burrs out) then lube: I've got some graphite sanded into vaseline that I use - some people will just use pencil.
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 6:54 am
by BillClay
Pencil always works for me, but I haven't been much of a whammy fiend.
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:42 am
by Phil O'Keefe
Pencil graphite works great, but I don't like to use it on white nuts. For that, I use a Teflon gel syringe I get at Radio Shack. Stuff works great, and you only need a tiny droplet. Of course, if your nut needs to be buffed with an Emory cloth, filed, or re-cut, no amount of graphite or Teflon is going to keep strings from binding on it...but if you attempt to DIY, read and study about it first, and go easy; it's always easier to take more off than it is to add more back, and if you cut the nut slots too low or wide, the guitar is guaranteed to buzz.
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:49 pm
by SuperG
Thanks. I'll give it all a try.
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:19 pm
by DGNR8
Be sure to oil your white nuts.
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:35 am
by Phil O'Keefe
DGNR8 wrote:Be sure to oil your white nuts.
Neither Teflon nor graphite is an "oil", is it?
Lube is the word that works IMO. Lube your white nuts.
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:31 pm
by theshadowofseattle
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:38 pm
by BillClay
^
Love the Lonely Island
WHAMMY CREEP JUST MAKES ME THINK ABOUT SOME pervy dude in a shitty gross band who doesn't even play the guitar, he just jerks the trem arm up and down leering at the women in the crowd w/ bug eyes and tongue hanging out while his shit band spasms and poops out noise like a dying whale's ass.
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:07 pm
by Doog
BillClay wrote:
WHAMMY CREEP JUST MAKES ME THINK ABOUT SOME pervy dude in a shitty gross band who doesn't even play the guitar, he just jerks the trem arm up and down leering at the women in the crowd w/ bug eyes and tongue hanging out while his shit band spasms and poops out noise like a dying whale's ass.
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:57 pm
by sholkham
well played ^
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:24 am
by paul_
Hahaha
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:44 am
by hotrodperlmutter
Doog wrote:
BillClay wrote:
WHAMMY CREEP JUST MAKES ME THINK ABOUT SOME pervy dude in a shitty gross band who doesn't even play the guitar, he just jerks the trem arm up and down leering at the women in the crowd w/ bug eyes and tongue hanging out while his shit band spasms and poops out noise like a dying whale's ass.
well played ^