David Love writes: Judging from this picture the severe indentation and the slightly angled indentation that leads to the new string position, it appears as if the migrating pins were caused by very aggressive string seating. In other words, someone actually banged the string down so hard at the pin that they moved the pin. That was my impression as well. I see little reason to suspect that the string angle in itself is going to be responsible for any major problems. And tho it may look nicer with nice pretty straight lines, thats not a reason to start recommending anything in particular to customers. On the on the other hand, Kent does point out that there is more deterioration in the area with the most severe string angles. Ok... its a 30 + year old instrument that has seen no doubt many interesting experiences through its life. And since I've seen many a instrument with similarily offset backlengths that do not exhibit the kind of deterioration Kent relates I dont really see any reason to go out with warnings to customers about the condition. Certainly addressing the direct problem of hitch pin placement is not in the realm of a field tech. Just my take. RicB
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