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Skinny Top - Heavy Bottom

theAeronought

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Hi guys,

This doesn't seem to be a very popular forum, but that's alright - if I don't get a response soon enough, I'll just do what I always do and go with my instincts.

I'm curious to see if anyone's had any problems with the Skinny Top - Heavy Bottom Slinky strings. It seems to me that there could be some slight difference in the way it pulls on the neck, since thicker strings put on more tension. Is there enough of a discrepancy between the high strings and the low strings to, I don't know, twist the neck? That's pretty extreme, but I'd probably need to make some kind of adjustments, right?

Thanks,
Aero
 
Ooohhhhh , why would u say that?

Used em for 20 years, never a problem. I'd like to see a stress analysis that measured the differences in tension on the strings and how that tension in the headstock was distributed laterally across a given neck and how that tension would affect the neck, laterally.
 
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