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Topic: Some Tuning nuts should be colored. |
Charley Bond
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Inola, OK, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2015 5:26 am |
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| The colored tuning nuts may exist, but I'm not aware of that. If the guitar had colored nuts at the E's, B's & G#, it would be easy to spot which nut need some attention, when you lean over to look at the changer end. |
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2015 5:39 am
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| How about some fingernail polish on the ends? |
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Ross Shafer
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Petaluma, California
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Posted 4 Aug 2015 5:40 am
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| Rit clothing dye works great for this. |
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Carl Kilmer
From:
East Central, Illinois
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Posted 4 Aug 2015 5:46 am
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Magic Markers do the job well.
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Charley Bond
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Inola, OK, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2015 5:49 am colored nuts
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| I have enough brains to do what you folks suggested, I think colored plastic nuts would be good. |
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Todd Goad
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Gray, Georgia, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2015 7:56 pm Colored Tuning Clips
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Charley, This might be a good job for Dave Flanagan. He makes I.D. Clips, so I'm sure he could come up with a colored clip for the tuning nuts...Just a thought 
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Todd
Mullen G2 "THE SAVIOR" BJS Bars Peterson Stroboflip Tuner NV400 GoodrichL20 |
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Gil Berry
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Westminster, CA, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2015 8:18 pm
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One might even consider usage of the electronics color code (like on resistors). Plan on doing it myself..color the tuning nut like this:
Pedal 0 Black
Pedal 1 Brown
Pedal 2 Red
Pedal 3 Orange
Pedal 4 Yellow
Pedal 5 Green
Pedal 6 Blue
Pedal 7 Violet
Pedal 8 Grey
Pedal 9 White
This would only leave the knees and pedals above 9 without a code...I'm sure additional colors could be found?..... Wouldn't it be nice, as was suggested by the author of this thread, that someone would manufacture those little hex gizmos in color? |
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2015 8:35 pm
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| Gil Berry wrote: |
One might even consider usage of the electronics color code (like on resistors). Plan on doing it myself..color the tuning nut like this:
Pedal 0 Black
Pedal 1 Brown
Pedal 2 Red
Pedal 3 Orange
Pedal 4 Yellow
Pedal 5 Green
Pedal 6 Blue
Pedal 7 Violet
Pedal 8 Grey
Pedal 9 White
This would only leave the knees and pedals above 9 without a code...I'm sure additional colors could be found?..... Wouldn't it be nice, as was suggested by the author of this thread, that someone would manufacture those little hex gizmos in color? |
That's crazy! Just tap on the pedal or knee lever and you can see which rods/tuning nuts are moving. You guys are making it way too complicated! |
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Gil Berry
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Westminster, CA, USA
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Posted 4 Aug 2015 11:58 pm
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| Maybe for some guitars, Jim. But I have about 40 changes on my uni, and its sometimes hard to tell which pull rod is being activated by the pedal or lever. Often more than one will move (on the same string) and it's easy to adjust the wrong one and then have two pulls out of whack. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 6 Aug 2015 6:39 pm
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I used different colored Sharpie pens. All changes on one pedal have the same color.
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 6 Aug 2015 6:57 pm
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on my Zum's Bruce has coloured the SPlits in Blue and the compensators in Black - just with a marker pen I presume, but you can spot them straight away very easily.
All the rest are just the standard white colour.
Works for me :-] and like Jim says, just tap the pedal or lever and grab the wee bugger that moves !!
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08'Zumsteel Hybrid D10 9+9
94' Franklin Stereo D10 9+8
Telonics, Peterson, Steelers Choice, Benado, Lexicon, Red Dirt Cases. |
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Charley Bond
From:
Inola, OK, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2015 10:27 am
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| Jim Smith wrote: |
| Gil Berry wrote: |
One might even consider usage of the electronics color code (like on resistors). Plan on doing it myself..color the tuning nut like this:
Pedal 0 Black
Pedal 1 Brown
Pedal 2 Red
Pedal 3 Orange
Pedal 4 Yellow
Pedal 5 Green
Pedal 6 Blue
Pedal 7 Violet
Pedal 8 Grey
Pedal 9 White
This would only leave the knees and pedals above 9 without a code...I'm sure additional colors could be found?..... Wouldn't it be nice, as was suggested by the author of this thread, that someone would manufacture those little hex gizmos in color? |
That's crazy! Just tap on the pedal or knee lever and you can see which rods/tuning nuts are moving. You guys are making it way too complicated! |
Mr Smith, you are partially correct. When I was a young man, that is what did. I looked over & down at the tuning end of my guitar, the other day, & almost fell of my seat. Ha Ha Ha....
I like the idea of colored tuning nuts.
That is why we make chocolate & vanilla. |
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Bob Sykes
From:
North Carolina
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Posted 16 Aug 2015 11:26 am
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I used sharpies to put the resistor color code on mine. Really helps us less experienced pickers. When I saw Mr. Franklin last summer, he tweaked his tuning nuts discreetly (while playing a song) without even looking.
Maybe one day...
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Charley Bond
From:
Inola, OK, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2015 11:35 am
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| ... yeah, Mr Franklin can do a lot of things mere mortals can't. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 16 Aug 2015 12:55 pm
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If you do it by feel, you don't have to look.
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 16 Aug 2015 3:27 pm Re: Colored Tuning Clips
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| Todd Goad wrote: |
| Charley, This might be a good job for Dave Flanagan. He makes I.D. Clips, so I'm sure he could come up with a colored clip for the tuning nuts...Just a thought |
i think he just 'sells' id clips. |
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Todd Goad
From:
Gray, Georgia, USA
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Posted 16 Aug 2015 8:13 pm Just Trying To Help
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Chris Ivey Wrote:
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| i think he just 'sells' id clips |
You are right Chris, which is what I said, but I thought it may be worth while for both Charley and Dave to talk and maybe it would be something Dave would be interested in making. Dave is able to add another source of income and Charley would be getting a product, that not only he wants, but others as well.
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Todd
Mullen G2 "THE SAVIOR" BJS Bars Peterson Stroboflip Tuner NV400 GoodrichL20 |
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Bob Simons
From:
Kansas City, Mo, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2015 1:08 pm
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I did the same thing as Richard Sinkler and used colored markers on my MSA M3. Helped greatly. I didn't need it on my Zum but my MSA with 9 and 6 is so crowded that often more than one would move somewhat when the pedal or knee lever was depressed making it hard to do in low light or without looking until I added color code on the important changes.
I also put a red stripe on my 5th pedal which greatly helped leaping around the pedal board....
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 20 Aug 2015 1:47 pm
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man, what a thread!
there are lots of things you need to figure out when learning to play steel.
which tuning nuts to adjust
what pedal to push.
what strings to play.
what knee levers to use.
what tuner to turn...
and on and on.
that's alot of color coding! |
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