The Steel Guitar Forum

We've been keeping a close tab on this new guitar and after a little over 48 hours of playing time it finally screwed up.

Yep, you guessed it, I broke a 3rd string Saturday night on the first song of the first set. It may be the state of the art, but they haven't taught these guitars enough---it could have waited until the last song of the last set to snap it.

Checked with one of the guys from MSA and he told me they outfitted them with GHS strings..Just can't depend on anything anymore.. Didn't have to chase the button end of the string into the changer though, it was still in the 'pocket' designed to catch the little monsters.

I'm really impressed with the pedal rod adjustment capability...lets you easily change the pedal heighth for different floor material, such as carpet or hard flooring.

They've 'bout got all the adjustments down pat so one doesn't have to bend down under the horn to make 'em; the pedal rod adjusters, the knee lever positioning set screws, the quick change pickup, etc. Now all they need is to move the back leg adjustments up to the top, next to the guitar and it's home free.

Super axe, especially with the Wallace TruTone pickup..I'm sure glad I didn't listen to the 'naysayers' and bought it anyway, especially since I used my money.

Fred

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The spirit be with you!
If it aint got a steel, it aint real

Fred, you might be making history by being the first to break a string on a Millenium!! I know as of the Dallas show in March that a Millenium had yet to break a string.

Congratulations!!!!!

Funny thing. I've been playing mine for nearly 3 weeks now. No breakage yet, but may change out the .011 shortly as a PM thing.....

Holy Mackerel, you mean I'm the first at something..Sidney, you've made my day...

Danny, I use a .012 on the 3rd and my tuning works the heck out of the B pedal (G#'s to A and my LKL--which I use a lot also G#'s to G) so I guess I got my money's worth out of this one...

Funny thing, and maybe someone has an explanation, the string broke down in the winding area and not where they normally go bad.

FRED

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The spirit be with you!
If it aint got a steel, it aint real

<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Fred Shannon on 15 April 2003 at 08:14 AM.]</p></FONT>

Your Millenium broke a string??? Well, I'm sure not gonna buy one now!

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Funny thing, and maybe someone has an explanation, the string broke down in the winding area and not where they normally go bad.
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Well now that must be a bad string and not the guitar!!

Your title of being the first to break a string may now be in question!!

Further review is necessary?????????

Well Crap!! Where is Reece and the Bennett boys when you need 'em???

Danny, you're chicken if you do a PM on that .011...Be brave man, and change it right in the middle of a TV shoot.

BTW Danny, where you giggin' this next week?

Anyway I have a degree in Liberal Arts; Do you want fries with that hamburger?

Fred

Fred, after checking out your beautiful guitar while it was displayed at Dallas, and then hearing that it broke a string, is like hearing that Maid Mary wasn't chaste!
P.S. Liberal Arts...is that like Political Science? www.genejones.com <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 15 April 2003 at 10:09 AM.]</p></FONT>

It took me 3 weeks to break a 3rd string on the Sho-Bud and Tommy had played it for 4 hours before it got shipped.
Now of course I have broken a motley collection of replacement guitar strings waiting for some PSG strings to arrive... But no eyes or fingers lost.
Seems like the Milliniums string was wound on badly. Got a kink in it.

Gene, Pat wants to know if you did your "voodoo" dance around the axe while it was in Dallas, and I was out here working my tail off? That's probably what happened to the 3rd.. Gotta' lay it on sumpin'. She also reminded me that even Maids have to be somewhere.

Donald, broke on the button end where the string winds around the button...Not on the Tuning machine end, so I can't even lay it on the MSA boys..

Gene, sorry, I missed your edit..Political Science? No Liberal Arts can only be given out if you take an I.Q. Test and the results come back NEGATIVE!!!

FRED

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If it aint got a steel, it aint real

<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Fred Shannon on 15 April 2003 at 12:35 PM.]</p></FONT><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Fred Shannon on 15 April 2003 at 12:36 PM.]</p></FONT>

Fred, you beat me to the break. I broke one the other week as well. It broke in the normal place about a week after I got the guitar. I think the strings had been one the guitar for two weeks when I got it. Oh well, they just don't make em like they used to. By the way, that is one beautiful guitar you have.

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Hey Dumplin, you scared the smoke out of us. How're you feeling and are you taking care of yourself??

Heck I've never been first in anything, even breaking a darn string. As far as the horn is concerned, the minute I saw this Marlin Blue color I knew that was it. The Bennetts did a super job setting it up, because, as you know a previous injury causes me to play a "bachelor" (that's not really how you spell it, but family Forum you know)tuning and they hit it right on the head.

Kyle told me you tried the Wallace TruTone pickup in another guitar, what did you think of it? My personal opinion is that it is in a category by itself..I haven't experienced one bit of hum in the Millennium, but I have an old Classic that the pickup produces a slight hum, but not bad enough to warrant changing it out.

Being 70 years young, and playing 4 - 5 nites a week, I just had to get away from all the weight..The Emmons P - P and the MSA Classic were getting to be just too much for me, and believe it or not--sans the case---I can lift this one over my head with one hand.

Hope you're outta' the woods, take care of yourself for us, and tell Joannie hello.

Fred and Pat

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The spirit be with you!
If it aint got a steel, it aint real

Fred,

Actually finalizing the details for next week, but it appears I'll be in Calif. working a couple of Johnny Lee dates, then Vidor (near Beaumont) for hte Texas BBQ festival with Rodney H.

Danny

Hey Danny,......Say hi to Johnny Lee for me. I worked with him for 5 years when he and I were both at Gilley's. Haven't seen him since 1980.

Hate to blame the strings, but I just got a half dozen sets of GHS's ROTB the 11 snapped at the changer right as I stepped on the pedal for the first time. I've *never* been able to use .011s. I just stuck an EB .010 in each package. The bunch I tried before that were SITs, and they just seemed pretty ordinary. They died after a week of hard playing on a 7 niter. Also they had 11s and 22s. I keep the .022s on hand for carb jet cleaners for my Harley and dental picks for the pets. I'm wondering if the LG wound #5 would be worth a try. (Plain strings just seem to be getting deader as time goes by.)

We'll see

EJL

Eric, I guess strings are just like some of the drummers you and I discussed at one time...Never can get 'em trained.

.022 for a carb jet cleaner, huh..Have to try that on some of this garbage I have around here.

Fred

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The spirit be with you!
If it aint got a steel, it aint real