Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

[sosomething]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

this thread was /threaded in post #10:

$40 and your good to go!

http://www.neckheavy.com/

[King IzzO)))]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

Just move the damn button to the horn, sheesh. Didn't we just have this discussion last week??

[75lespaul]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

After having Les Pauls (different make, but all heavy) and the twelve pound Jesuscaster hanging around my neck, my SG is soooooo light and comfortable that I don't give a rat's a$$ about the imbalanced neck thingy. It's a pleasure to be able to play without feeling like my disks are going to shoot out of my spine like skeet clay discs or Pez.

[King IzzO)))]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

I'm imagining a human pez dispenser-esque spinal destruction now, time to draw.

[ErikH]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

$40 and your good to go!

http://www.neckheavy.com/

Brilliant!

or fishing weights in a small sack taped inside the control cavity works really well.

[Rich_S]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

$40 and your good to go!

http://www.neckheavy.com/

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[xntrick]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

Relocate the rear strap pin higher up.
Put the front pin under the horn.

i am going to experiment with relocating the lower strap button so i don't have to drill into the horn, i am going to use gaffer tape before i drill anything..i'll you know how it works later this weekend...

[BloodRose]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

Or, if you are into body modification, have a snap base embedded on your shoulder and the other part on the strap. Snap the strap to your shoulder and it'll stay put..

[BloodRose]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

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LOL!!!

[AlexR]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

Do the Vipers come with heavy tuning heads like Grover's? I've had 3 SG's. The 2 gibsons I own have the light Kluson style and I never have neck dive on them. The Epi G400 I had was perhaps lighter of body, but had the super lead-enhanced grovers which did make it neck dive....or want to at least. I moved the strap button a bit further out (to the neck/body join) and a bit upward. This solved most of it with that guitar.

[SabbathFan0220]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

Well a padded strap is still the easiest fix, but...

Lighter tuners
Bigger/heavier bridge
Attach something heavy inside the control cavity

[MojoMonster]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

Remove your current rear strap button.
With a 3/4" forstner bit, drill out the wood directly behind that button about 3 inches deep.
Get a steel rod 3/4" in diameter and 3" long.
Put the steel rod in the hole.
Drill a hole in the steel rod for your strap button.
Enjoy the new found feeling of freedom from the tyranny of neck-dive.

Edit: I was off on the sizes. I figure about 1/3lb of weight should help do the trick.


MM

[xntrick]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

Remove your current rear strap button.
With a 1/2" forstner bit, drill out the wood directly behind that button about 3 inches deep.
Get a steel rod 1/2" in diameter and 3" long.
Put the steel rod in the hole.
Drill a hole in the steel rod for your strap button.
Enjoy the new found feeling of freedom from the tyranny of neck-dive.

You're welcome.

how does that work exactly, the strap button is still in the same spot...

[ErikH]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

how does that work exactly, the strap button is still in the same spot...

The rear strap button. Yes, it'll be in the same spot. It covers the newly added rod. Hole is drilled in to the end of the rod and the button in screwed in to the rod.

[MojoMonster]

Re: Okay.. SG...how do we fix this?

The rear strap button. Yes, it'll be in the same spot. It covers the newly added rod. Hole is drilled in to the end of the rod and the button in screwed in to the rod.

This.
To do it properly you'd want that hole tapped and use a metal screw, not a wood screw.

That idea was right off the top of my head and hardly the easiest, most cost effective unless you *really* like to mod your guitars.

Hell OP, just duct tape the biggest lead sinkers you can find to the end of your guitar strap.
I'd start there.

MM