strings unwinding please help!

Re: strings unwinding please help!

Ok so here's an update. I swapped the wound strings with d'addario 10-46. I also removed a spring in the back to go from 4 straight spring setup to 3 springs angled inwards. I reset the trem tension and wanked off with the trem arm for a bit and had no problems. Just changing the gauge of the E A D strings made quite a difference in tension.

I gotta take the kid to daycare shortly but I'll let you know how the practice session goes before I go to work.


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Re: strings unwinding please help!

smth does not make much sense : I have never ever heard anyone complaining about the wounded strings slipping. Maybe you got the strung blocks upside/down or rear/front? Can you check they are positioned the same as your good (3 treble) ones?
 
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Second update. Played for just over an hour before work. Played the trem more aggressively than I normally do and no issues came about. I was able to do a full dive into pulling it back all the way up. No issues with the strings at the bridge and the whole guitar stayed in tune.

Thanks for the advice.

Cheers


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Playing wise, can you deal with the different brand, string sizes, and different tension on the trem?
 
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Yeah. Took me a couple days to get used to the 10-52 but I've played 9-46 for many many years so going to 10-46 was easy transition.

And yeah I've gone over the whole trem a couple times. It happened 4-5 times on the E and A strings no matter what I tried.


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I wish I had more time to isolate more variables but I got it set up and working perfect now so I'm going to stick with what I have going on


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I've had D'Addarios unravel at the Floyd, but never an EB Super Slinky 9-42, or even 10-52. I've tried Dean Markley, GHS, SITs (they don't Stay In Tune), and several other brands over the years. EB Slinkies are the most consistent and reliable for me. The few times they have broken was at the tuner of my LP Standard, never the saddle.

I string my Floyds "backwards" as well, and once you clip the excess off at the tuner, it's the same as cutting the ball end off and stringing it "normal". The wraps are not inverted, as some claim.

As for getting the saddle blocks too tight, you'll know when that happens because the saddle will crack in the corner. Happened to me back in '88 on a German Floyd on a Kramer Focus 1000 and a set of EB 10-52s. Do you know how difficult and expensive it was back then to get a replacement saddle? $145 and 3 weeks, when I finally found a store that would/could order one instead of trying to sell me a new guitar or a new Floyd system in the box for triple and up.


I tried those D'Addarios that had the little brass tabs on the ends instead of balls made specifically for Floyds. The string slipped out of the tab. If you tightened the block so much that it crushed the tab around the string, it also cut the string.

I've had less trouble over the decades out of EBs than with any other brand. The only time I had an EB unravel was when I cut the end off with a worn pair of wire cutters that couldn't do a clean cut, or if the bridge was too high up or tilted too far back and the angle too steep.

Of course, I haven't bought strings in probably 10 years because I bought a buttload of them 10 years ago, so newer batches might have problems I don't know about and can't speak to.
 
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