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Topic: Roller issue with different brand strings |
Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Apr 2016 10:02 am |
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I play a Williams which has gauged rollers for .012-.038 sets. I've used various brands of strings with NO problems until recently.
I don't want to start a negative thread bashing anyone's strings but I purchased a well known brand and after putting them on, I find I can not play without a huge amount of pressure at the first or second frets to stop string buzz.
I do not have a set of calipers so I can't check the strings for their sizes.
Have any of you had this happen after changing to a different brand?
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Doug Palmer
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Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 23 Apr 2016 4:38 am Strings
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Dick, there are roller wound, round wound and flat wound strings. You might have a different type than you were using. I like the round wound.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 23 Apr 2016 4:41 am
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Must be different gauges of strings.
My Franklin does not have gauged nut rollers and I've kept to the recommended Sho-Bud/Nashville Gauges and have not had any problems. |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 23 Apr 2016 2:51 pm
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What's a roller?
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Georg Sørtun
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Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 3:53 am
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My PSGs don't have gauged rollers, but since I do put on string-sets with varying (custom) gauges for some strings now and then I modified the grooves slightly eccentric on some of the rollers so they can be turned to level off the strings at the nut. Strings stay put on the rollers while playing, so they stay perfectly leveled until I change strings.
This has worked fine for me for over 20 years now, and I keep some spare, unmodified, rollers just in case I ever want them "normalized" again.
| Ian Rae wrote: |
| What's a roller? |
Well, I have a GFI keyless with a nut-bolt. Would rather have rollers... |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 3:57 am
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| I modified the grooves slightly eccentric on some of the rollers so they can be turned to level off the strings |
Then how do the rollers....roll? Granted, movement at the nut is minimal but still, aren't you reducing their function to just being a sliding channel for the string? |
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Georg Sørtun
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Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 4:28 am
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John, with a difference in groove-depth from one side of a roller to the other of not much more than the difference in thickness between neighboring strings, there's no rolling-problems.
Even the more extreme groove-eccentricity necessary for my very own Extended E tuning, with string gauges jumping from .022 to .042 to .030 to .056 to .038 (for the 5 lowest strings), doesn't cause any problems - the rollers turn nicely and tuning is stable. |
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 24 Apr 2016 4:34 am
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| .......and tuning is stable. |
Obviously, above any and all else, this is the only thing that matters. |
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