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Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:03 pm
by steevdeadman
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?
Beeeeeeeeeeeeuler?
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:11 pm
by Mudfuzz
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..
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:21 pm
by steevdeadman
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!
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:26 pm
by Mudfuzz
No chance it has a floyd ed?
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:33 pm
by steevdeadman
No Floyd... hate those things.
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:37 pm
by Mudfuzz
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...
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:40 pm
by steevdeadman
Yea... I will try a few things... hopefully something will work. Or else I gotta get an actual 8 string.
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:42 pm
by Mudfuzz
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+
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:21 pm
by jrmy
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.
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:25 pm
by Mudfuzz
So do I... and that is why I am "building" myself one
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:35 am
by MEC
Or.......................this:
http://www.schecterguitars.com/Products/Guitar/Ultra-VI.aspxPersonally, I like the looks of the Hellcat more than the Ultra but I think a lot of folks around here would prefer the Ultra.
Re: Unwinding strings.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:04 pm
by steevdeadman
Unwinding the string worked peeeeeeeeerfectly... now I need to do some adjustments to my action and i'll be rockin' F#!