Williams 600 series

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Check for binding

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Jani, check each string with a tuning meter and make sure that the string is returning true, if not, check for binding and also make sure that you have backed off the nylon tuning nuts to allow for proper tuning. Also check to see that the fingers are not binding and everything is moving freely. Once everything is moving freely and strings are returning true you should have no trouble with string breakage..it may take a few hours time but will be worth the effort..do not except anything less than perfect...the 600 changer should not break any strings if everything is adjusted properly..if any steel would have broken that many strings for me in that short of time I would have returned it..something is not adjusted properly with your Steel.
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Post by Jani Peter Sandvik »

Jim.

well lets put it this way that you can anticipate a strings breakage. strings have started to sound like a sitar strings and then its a matter of time when they break. and after that when you look on the string above the pickup the string is quite darker. But usually people change their strings often. I dont change so often, maybe once a year. Or when strings start sounding dead.
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Jani i think the reason for you breaking
those strings is all that beer and you rubb your feet before you play and get that sock juice on your hands. :lol: :lol:


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yes this is Larrys favorite hobby :lol: :lol: :lol:

kids!! dont do this at home
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Oy! I can't figure out if that's Larry's foot or his hand :lol: :lol:

If you want to hear what a Blue Willy sounds like click here:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qXVrFRRnJpQ&feature=user
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Looks like my nose.
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Post by Jani Peter Sandvik »

Dennis Saydak wrote:Oy! I can't figure out if that's Larry's foot or his hand :lol: :lol:

If you want to hear what a Blue Willy sounds like click here:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qXVrFRRnJpQ&feature=user
yes Larry looooves showing others bodyparts. that moves him alot and gives em good vibrations.... but what the heck. :lol:

who the heck is that guy playin that blue willy ...yuk!!!
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:lol:
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12 more days...my Williams natural birdseye SD-10 4 & 5, should be finished. "Can't wait, I think I'm goin' insane." (There's a song in there somewhere.)
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You guys have gone way off topic. Foot pictures. :roll: Give Olli a chance to answer my question. :)
bob drawbaugh wrote:Olli, I see you have two U12s. One with a metal neck and one with a wood neck. Is there a big tone difference with the wood neck. I love the retro look of the wood necks with the inlay. What about the sustane on the one with the wood neck?
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strings

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I just changed the strings on my Williams after 4 months or so, I have not broken a Jagwire string in the last 2 years, using Jagwire Herby wallace strings, stainles steel, shobud, carter, williams, fender,Pro 1, I had the strings on the Pro 1 till they started sounding bad.

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Broke a fourth string :whoa:

What should i do :eek:
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If I were you, I'd put on a new one. :roll:
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Larry Scott wrote:Broke a fourth string :whoa:

What should i do :eek:
Obviously you have a defective guitar. I'll take it off your hands for say $1000.00. :mrgreen:
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hi

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I'll go $1,100.00.

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dont worry itl go for 900 if you just hang on :lol:
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bid low

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Hey Ernie, Please don't bid so high, we are trying to get a bargain..LOL...you know any Steel that breaks the 4th string has to be sold to the lowest bidder....breaking the 4th string is a real no, no.
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