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Aug 17 2008, 08:34 PM
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I'm glad my tutorial helped you man.
Regarding taking off all the strings, you shouldn't be worried about that. I take off all the strings and thoroughly clean my fretboard on my strat and peavey guitar every time and never had any problems whatsoever. The neck needs to adjust to tension naturally after you put new set of strings, but this happens quite fast - overnight. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Aug 17 2008, 08:35 PM
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Well if you want to clean it than take off all the strings..If you replace strings with the same gauge neck will return after some time to original position..
I would suggest loosening the strings when traveling by a plane and carrying guitar in a hardshell case! This post has been edited by Bogdan Radovic: Aug 17 2008, 08:35 PM -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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Aug 17 2008, 09:23 PM
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Thanks man, I appreciate your kind words
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Aug 18 2008, 04:50 PM
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About traveling, when we are touring my strings are not loosened when we fly, and I never had any problems. This loosening thing comes from a time when the luggage compartments of planes could get VERY cold, therefor the tension of the strings got much higher and the neck could break. But as I said, I never do this since the luggage compartments don't get that cold anymore. If you want to make sure you can of course still loosen your strings, but as I said, in all my years of touring around the world I never had any problems.
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Aug 18 2008, 04:55 PM
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QUOTE (Marcus Siepen @ Aug 18 2008, 05:50 PM)  About traveling, when we are touring my strings are not loosened when we fly, and I never had any problems. This loosening thing comes from a time when the luggage compartments of planes could get VERY cold, therefor the tension of the strings got much higher and the neck could break. But as I said, I never do this since the luggage compartments don't get that cold anymore. If you want to make sure you can of course still loosen your strings, but as I said, in all my years of touring around the world I never had any problems. Agree,in todays world there is no real need to loose strings when flying, well maybe you should loose it if you're traveling from or to Antarctica or som.
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Aug 18 2008, 05:24 PM
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It's great to hear that restringing process has gone well, and well done mate. Wish you a lot more successful restringings in the future as well
And you are right, strings are tighter when they are new. They get loose from playing and tension over time, and this among other things is the reason why they get that bad sound and detune so much. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Aug 18 2008, 05:26 PM
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QUOTE (black and white @ Aug 18 2008, 06:11 PM) Marcus, when your gear flies, it is commercial jets or is it chartered special for the bands. What I am getting at, is, are your instruments handled by the airlines people or your own people, or you? I hope Marcus will forgive me for taking this one. I guess you ask this because of damage during transport? If you send your guitar to luggage it's usually "handled" by airport stuff so it's wise to put it in flight case, they use to throw things soooo easily  But if you're carrying only one guitar then it's nice to take it on the plane with you as a personal luggage, that's what I do all the time. -------------------- Youtube
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Aug 18 2008, 07:11 PM
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QUOTE (black and white @ Aug 18 2008, 07:04 PM) Thanks guys, I so do not want to put it in with the luggage. I have always been able to put it in the overhead bins and that works. Nervous, nervous, nervous. One final request for help.....I hope. After restringing, i have notice a slight fret buzz on my A and D strings which I had never had before. It is a fender strat.. Any suggestions to get rid of this? Thanks in advance as always. Depends of what kind of buzz you're getting. Be sure that new strings always tend to buzz a bit cause they are shining and new but that buzz cannot be heard when you plug guitar into an amp, you can hear it only when you play unplugged. So do not worry if that is the "buzz" you hear. And if it's more serious buzz then you could put a tinny pieces of paper in the nut,bellow A and D, that would release them a bit from fingerboard and remove some buzz as well.
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Aug 18 2008, 07:41 PM
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Some string buzz is perfectly normal when you put new strings mate, don't worry.
As long as you don't have any buzzing or loss of sustain on the amp, then you're OK. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Aug 18 2008, 09:45 PM
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Thanks Ivan, as far as I can tell, I do not have those issues.
So does the buzz go away and why is it there at the start? |
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Aug 18 2008, 10:05 PM
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It will go away as the strings wear off a bit and go dull. Also it will go away when the neck is settled, in 1-3 days. But as I said, don't worry about it - if you don't have buzz or loss of sustain on the amp you should be fine
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Aug 19 2008, 12:23 AM
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QUOTE (black and white @ Aug 18 2008, 08:32 PM) Hi Muris, I just plugged in and indeed it does not seem to be coming through the amp. I was hearing it when I was just playing unplugged. So i guess I will just keep an eye on it and see how things settle. As always, than you kindly You're welcome
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Aug 19 2008, 07:21 PM
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When we are touring we of course can't take all of our backline as handluggage, so we have to check it in normally, and as Muris said, BE SURE you have a proper case, a flight case would be the best, because the airport crews that handle the luggage don't really seem to care much about breakable things... I have seen my rack been thrown to the ground already, same with other cases, and it made me feel like jumping right out of the planes window to kill that guy, but well, since all my stuff is in very good cases nothing ever got damaged. The problem is though that a good flightcase is pretty heavy, so you can easily reach your wight limit like that, but I definitely prefer to pay overweight if I can be sure that my guitars survive the trip.
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