grumpyoldman
Well-known member
...with apologies to Mr Aday and Mr Steinman, of course.
After taking possession of my third Axis, and comparing the relative figuring in their necks, I noted that a cleaning of all three was in order. Utilizing the search feature, I found several threads advising on how exactly to do this. Buried in the middle of one of the threads, posted in 2004, Dodgeball reported on an incident involving his Floyd Rose jumping off the posts when he removed the last string prior to cleaning his Axis' fingerboard. Several other forumites commented on how this should never happen, and at least one other chipped in with a similar story. Well, I'll be damned if that didn't happen to two outta three of my Axii Floyds while doing the same thing this evening!
One would think that the downward pressure onto the face of the guitar would closely balance the forward pull of the springs, not allowing this to happen, but it did. And strangely enough, when I had changed the strings on one of the victims shortly after acquiring it a few months ago, I had taken them all off without incident.
Has anyone else had this happen lately? I ended up using the folded string container as a block to hold the unit in place whilst I restrung the beasts, but there must be a better way to do this....
Thankfully, most string changes won't necessitate the full-blown neck cleaning, so a repeat performance in not anticipated.
After taking possession of my third Axis, and comparing the relative figuring in their necks, I noted that a cleaning of all three was in order. Utilizing the search feature, I found several threads advising on how exactly to do this. Buried in the middle of one of the threads, posted in 2004, Dodgeball reported on an incident involving his Floyd Rose jumping off the posts when he removed the last string prior to cleaning his Axis' fingerboard. Several other forumites commented on how this should never happen, and at least one other chipped in with a similar story. Well, I'll be damned if that didn't happen to two outta three of my Axii Floyds while doing the same thing this evening!
One would think that the downward pressure onto the face of the guitar would closely balance the forward pull of the springs, not allowing this to happen, but it did. And strangely enough, when I had changed the strings on one of the victims shortly after acquiring it a few months ago, I had taken them all off without incident.
Has anyone else had this happen lately? I ended up using the folded string container as a block to hold the unit in place whilst I restrung the beasts, but there must be a better way to do this....
Thankfully, most string changes won't necessitate the full-blown neck cleaning, so a repeat performance in not anticipated.
