Hi Dale Again I agree with you. Sometimes changing the string is the only thing that helps. Sometimes changing the string and cleaning up the front termination does the trick. And in both cases this can concern that kind of falsness that pressure with a screwdriver on the bridge pin also aliviates. I, like many others today start often as not by checking with the screwdriver trick and then apply a bit of CA... or more recently a fairly thick blend of Cellulose laquer and thinner and move on from there. If I dont get a quick result with the laquer I will try cleaning up the front termination a bit. And if that doesnt work I try moving the string around the hitch pin... and finnally changing the string. Sometimes nothing seems to do the trick... most often I can get at least some improvement... but frankly I find that perhaps 30 % of the time at least some falseness remains or returns later. Cheers RicB Dale writes: Or as I said in my previous post that nothing you do short of changing the false, overly stretched & deformed string will help. Any body out there tried this remedy? Or are we only going to consider the bridge pin /ca gule otion? Cheers Dale Erwin
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