| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Cones | | Date: | Thursday, September 14, 2006 19:42:55 (-0500) | | From: | kbrown <kbrown @...........edu>
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Quoting lh@lennieharvey.com:
"My Scheerhorn is about 4 years old now, should I be thinking about replacing
the cone. It sounds fine, but of course any deterioration will have been
gradual..."
=> I'll second what everyone else has already said: if it ain't broke, don't fix
it.
But you make a good point about changes being too gradual to notice. It's
something we should all think about occasionally. Wear and tear is most likely
to happen with the wooden bridge inserts. Back-and-forth string movement during
tuning can wear the string slots, and a string jumping out of a slot during
playing or tuning can chip the edge of the slot.
If you're willing to spend the extra cash, you could do this: buy a Beard
cone, an extra spider, and extra bridge inserts. Assemble them, install, and
compare against the Quarterman assembly. Decide which assembly you like best,
then keep the other as a spare. The extra assembly should run you about $125
US.
Back when I was an actual gigging amateur musician (and I use the term
loosely, believe me), I acquired a spare Quarterman plus spider/insert
assembly, in part because I was worried about something happening to my dobro a
few days before a festival or some other critical gig. I still keep it as a
spare, already assembled, with the screw fully tensioned, in a box ready to go
in case I have to swap it out.
Ken Brown
Austin, Texas
I also have (believe it or not) four orange traffic cones, but that's another
story.
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