Heat-Damaged Bass String?

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:56:02 +0200


Farrell wrote:

> I aligned a few hammers on a Samick Studio the other day by heating the shanks with my heat gun. Certainly, the bass strings received some heat from the heat gun. The owner left a message saying that several bass strings sound "dull". Will heat from a heat gun make a bass string go tubby?

Its a possibility.... :)  They make this fitting for those heat guns, (you want the low heat ones for this kinda thing) that helps to turn the airflow back. And you should be pulling the action away from the strings if you use the gun anyways IMHO. Better safe then sorry eh ?

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