Unwinding strings.

steevdeadman · Post by **steevdeadman** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:03 pm

I was reading on Sevenstring.org that you can unwind heavy strings to make them fit in tuners. Anyone here ever do this? Anyone seen a video showing how to do this?

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Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:11 pm

I have once for that little EUB I made, I wanted to use a normal DB string for the E and use a guitar tuner so I unwound it to the core. my advice on this it to solder the string at the point where you want the string to stay it's normal size FIRST, otherwise it will unwind.

Other ideas:
Grovers have bigger holes and are beefier then most guitar tuners.
As long as you don't go too far i.e. drilling out a mini bass tuner for a DB low B... no that actually worked but the gear broke... back to my point... I've drilled out a lot of tuners.. :thumb:

steevdeadman · Post by **steevdeadman** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:21 pm

I need to fit a .80 into a normal guitar tuner. So I can go down to drop E. It seems as tho the string is double wrapped. So I will see how easy it is to unwind. Plus I don't have a drill... but I do have some tiny files... lets see how this goes. LOL!

Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:26 pm

No chance it has a floyd ed?

steevdeadman · Post by **steevdeadman** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:33 pm

No Floyd... hate those things.

Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:37 pm

I agree but they will take up to a 90 so you don't have to mess with the string, and you can just block the thing...

steevdeadman · Post by **steevdeadman** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:40 pm

Yea... I will try a few things... hopefully something will work. Or else I gotta get an actual 8 string.

Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:42 pm

One thing to do as a last ditch vs buying a new guitar is take it to someone and have the tuner replaced with a bass tuner then you could use any size from a 007 to a 200+ :idk:

jrmy · Post by **jrmy** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:21 pm

Oooo oooo ooo! I know! I know!

You wanna know?

GET A BASS VI! :lol:

Or... this: http://www.schecterguitars.com/Products ... t-VI.aspx#

Totally unhelpful, I know. But I want one of these.

Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:25 pm

jrmy wrote:Oooo oooo ooo! I know! I know!

You wanna know?

GET A BASS VI!

Or... this: http://www.schecterguitars.com/Products ... t-VI.aspx#

Totally unhelpful, I know. But I want one of these.

So do I... and that is why I am "building" myself one :lol:

MEC · Post by **MEC** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:35 am

jrmy wrote:Oooo oooo ooo! I know! I know!

You wanna know?

GET A BASS VI!

Or... this: http://www.schecterguitars.com/Products ... t-VI.aspx#

Totally unhelpful, I know. But I want one of these.

Or.......................this: http://www.schecterguitars.com/Products/Guitar/Ultra-VI.aspx
Personally, I like the looks of the Hellcat more than the Ultra but I think a lot of folks around here would prefer the Ultra.

steevdeadman · Post by **steevdeadman** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:04 pm

Unwinding the string worked peeeeeeeeerfectly... now I need to do some adjustments to my action and i'll be rockin' F#! :thumb:

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