Hi Lance, It burnishes the corners off the groove, by listening you will soon determine if they need to come out of the groove. If you move them, then hammer alignment may be a concern. Just another group of those judgement calls we make daily. No right or wrong answers. Regards Roger At 09:08 PM 7/10/02 -0500, you wrote: >OK gentlemen, this continues to get better... Keep it comin' if you got it. >This is all the kind of stuff I'm talking about. > >Roger, in tapping with the string spacer.......... I'm basically running the >string from the left side to the right side of the groove smoothing it out, >or just moving it out of the groove? Am I putting the string back in the >original position, or moving all over slightly out of the groove it is/was >in? > Thanks, >lance > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-caut@ptg.org [mailto:owner-caut@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Ron >Nossaman >Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:47 PM >To: caut@ptg.org >Subject: RE: Voicing > > > > >Hi Lance, you got it. Tapping the pin gives enough shock to drag the > >string to the bridge, it's a good temporary fix. > >'Tain't shock Rog, it's friction, and tapping the pin in will get the wear >point down and out of the way where it won't be part of future problems. A >lot more long term improvement than seating strings. > > >Ron N Roger
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