What is your highest maintenance guitar?

[King IzzO)))]

Re: What is your highest maintenance guitar?

SG's are well known to shift pitch just moving the neck fore and aft with no real pressure. Come to think of it every SG I've ever played would do this somewhat, part of my peeve with them, but that could be a cool thing for some people.

I'm convinced they're a love/hate thing.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: What is your highest maintenance guitar?

All this thread has done for me is realize how much more maintenance i should be doing on my guitars. :laughing:

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: What is your highest maintenance guitar?

SG's are well known to shift pitch just moving the neck fore and aft with no real pressure. Come to think of it every SG I've ever played would do this somewhat, part of my peeve with them, but that could be a cool thing for some people.

I'm convinced they're a love/hate thing.

Love 'em...but IME they go out of tune almost as badly as Strats.

 

[Voodoogumbo]

Re: What is your highest maintenance guitar?

All this thread has done for me is realize how much more maintenance i should be doing on my guitars. :laughing:

+1 I thought I was good enough passing a rag along the strings after playing. Darn the whole lot of you smart Seymour Duncan forumites!

 

[hydro]

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Love 'em...but IME they go out of tune almost as badly as Strats.

I have not really had this problem with mine. I don't know why; I have heard a lot of horror stories about the necks, the neck joint and headstock breaks. Lots of old SGs have repaired headstock breaks, etc. It seems to me though, that these early Norlin SGs were just built like brick sh1thouses.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: What is your highest maintenance guitar?

Rickenbacker 12-string. Takes forever to string and setup, compared to all my other guitars.

Reminds me of that old joke: "How long does it take a folk singer to tune a 12-string? ...Nobody knows."

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: What is your highest maintenance guitar?

I have not really had this problem with mine. I don't know why; I have heard a lot of horror stories about the necks, the neck joint and headstock breaks. Lots of old SGs have repaired headstock breaks, etc. It seems to me though, that these early Norlin SGs were just built like brick sh1thouses.

They are no better built than earlier SGs (arguably a bit worse, due to the cost cutting pressure from above), but I can see how due to a few design changes, they would posibly stay in tune better. Multi-piece necks, lower neck joints, volutes, and reduced neck angles all helped them with tuning stability. Unfortunately, those are the same changes that led to their uglification (except the lower neck joint, which I actually like a lot, and which was started pre-Norlin).

 

[hydro]

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Heh yeah, they aren't the prettiest girls at the dance but as guitars go, the mid 70s SGs are simple, brutal and effective. Worth pointing out they also had the closed type tuners (Grovers or Schallers, I can't recall) which I always preferred over the other kind. May be part of why I have less trouble with them.

 

[hydro]

Re: What is your highest maintenance guitar?

Rickenbacker 12-string. Takes forever to string and setup, compared to all my other guitars.

Reminds me of that old joke: "How long does it take a folk singer to tune a 12-string? ...Nobody knows."

Yep! I just got one recently...