Not Enough Emphasis...(could be the new Lunch thread)

[OrangeChannel]

...gets put on lubing the knife edges on a floating trem...I like to use either Big Bends NutSauce or chapstick (rolled in a little ball and pressed with a tooth pick on the knife edge) to keep my trems nicey nice. This will help in my opinon about 90% of the tuning issues that most of us have with trems not returning to the zero position...

That's my tip of the week...


We need to resurrect the idea of the Lunch thread once a week...

I'll try and remember to post one on thursdays so we can all share tech tips or general stories...

Lunch: Subway turkey and Ham....cheddar sunchips and a lime diet coke

Current listening: the Mercury Program, NIN - with teeth, Meshuggah - catch33, freak kitchen - new one...

 

[pack-rat]

Hey Orange

I like the nut sauce too. Works perfectly. Never heard of using chapstick. On my friend's strat I found a little burr on the bridge that was causing the string to break. He wanted to file it off, but I told him to contact his dealer instead and they resolved the issue by putting a new trem on.

Yes I liked the lunch forums too I was thinking about this awhile back but couldn't remember what day we would post the lunch forum.

Lunch: Re-heated lasagna, ceaser salad, cantelope, milk.

Album in the CD player : Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La
(some tracks remind me of somthing Chris Issac would do)

 

[GWDavis28]

Let's see my standard Meatless and a Diet Pepsi from the local House of Greece.

Listenings: OffSpring, Mars Voilta, Kids music ala www.wers.org see the playground, Saturdays and Sundays from 5-8pm EST.

Later, Glenn |B)

 

[pack-rat]

There used to be a restaurant here called "A touch of Greece" we called it "A Touch of Grease"

 

[GWDavis28]

Actually its name is Sudbury Pizza, but Nick the owner is Greek and I don't even have to order they just ask me "The usual".

Hahahahaha

Glenn |B)

 

[pack-rat]

Hey it would be great if you all could post MP3 links for the music you are listening to if you can.

here is the link to what is in my CD atm. It has a documentary on the album.

http://www.mark-knopfler.com/

 

[NorM]

Just enough vasoline to hold graphite in place. That's my secret lube for knife edges. I think it's time for me to redo the blue dawn silo cause the strings are changing tune as a group. Not one at a time. Sometimes I think that nut sauce may be dampening vibration of the strings when applied to the nut. You gotta have some but any is to much.

Lunch- Meat and vegatables (Low carb works for me and I love it) (Lunch is the only meal of the day for me)

In the CD player is Chet Atkins. I got a couple of Tab Books from him and that stuff really holds my intrest.

Remember with spring coming around that wooden guitars are subject to temperature changes. Give your guitar time to acclimate when going to a new location.

 

[OrangeChannel]

The chapstick works on the nut too (in a pinch it's a great thing to have in your case for this alone...)...thanks for the heads up Glenn, I figured I'd add this...

Most of the stuff I ended up posting either currently or previously tune wise, is hard to link up since I usually end up with industry promos for records that aren't out yet...I have a buddy that writes for a few rock rags and he hooks me up when he knows it's something I'll dig...

You can also add Petrucci's Suspended Animation to my rotation as well...

 

[pack-rat]

In the CD player is Chet Atkins. QUOTE]

If my life had background or incidental music that would play whenever i walked into a room, it would be Chet Atkins "Yakety-Axe".

 

[mbgreene]

Sorry - can't comment on the trem since I'm basically a hardtail guy.

I got out at lunchtime and took a yoga class. Great to get out of the office grind and clear your head. Came back to a Met-Rx shake at my desk. (trying to balance out too many cookies at rehearsal last night)

Currently in the CD player - Dick Dale - King of the Surf Guitar

 

[SteveB]

My lunch was stuffed cabbage (otherwise known as "pigs in a blanket" or "Polish hand grenades"), mashed potatoes, roll & butter and a root beer.

No tunes today.. nothing in the CD player except dust. But I have had a King Diamond song stuck in my head most of the day.

I can't wait to leave 'cause my new amp should be waiting for me at a local music store. I plan to pick it up on the way home from work and use it tonight at band practice.

I must be the odd man out because I never have these problems with my trem systems. I was tempted to try that Big Bend's nut sauce, but then I realized that I don't have any of the symptoms that it cures!

Edit: Oddly enough, after posting this message with a King Diamond reference, I looked and it was my 666th post! hahahahahaha!

 

[OrangeChannel]

The trem reference was more a precautionary measure than an actual issue...it's just the case that any forum I post on has like 42 trem issue threads and most of them can be solved by making sure the trem is seated properly and the knife edges are lubed...metal otherwise can bind and if the knife edges start wearing it'll definitely return to a place that isn't quite zero...

What kind of amp you got coming in?

 

[SteveB]

OC,

I'll be picking up my brand spankin' new Peavey XXX head, in all 51 lbs of its glory.

 

[OrangeChannel]

Cool...not a bad haul...I thought about checking out that Satch head but I realized that I don't need a new amplitude setup since my Pod XT Pro rack sounds good as it is currently...got a few small things I'm doing to that that might change it up for the better as well...hehehe.

 

[anaheim flash]

teflon nuts (i don't even wanna talk about that....bad enough people asking if i wanna see their balls), and a little chap-stick on the pivot points, if even that. i usually just end up polishing them to perfection, as i hate using anything that is not permanent. always end up not having it when needed, bad imges of being in turkey looking for "nut sauce", or in asia trying to buy "stick of much belittled chaffing".....
hard for me to comment tho, as i HATE trems, and just end up with 'em locked down, or buying a fixed bridge

lunch.....er, coffee, actual COCOLATE malted balls (aw christ it gets worse), lox and bagel, more coffee, cyanoacrylate fumes (don't ask), fine powdered torquoise, and wonderful home-made flouttes with brazed chipotle-n-hatch chili sauce, and more coffee.....

music.....yoko kano, pagey (not much into the mighty zepp, tho), allman bros, cusco, andres segovia, andrew york, concrete blonde, clannad, spencer brewer, trigun, and zakk wylde.

A.D.D. IS YOUR FRIEN....hey, what was that?
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