| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Help me with my bridge insert | | Date: | Saturday, July 14, 2007 10:11:55 (-0600) | | From: | Dave Dillman <dmdillman @.........net>
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Sorry, I assume everbody has nut files like I do. A wound string would work,
even careful use of an Xacto file.
Dave Dillman
-----Original Message-----
>From: Brad Harper <bradharper@gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 14, 2007 8:58 AM
>To: resoguit-l@elistas.com
>Subject: Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Help me with my bridge insert
>
>I would try to avoid the file... most likely it won't profile the bottom of
>the slot in a favorable way. I would first try to use an actual top string
>(whatever diameter you use) in a sawing motion to deepen the slot a bit. If
>you, by chance, have a .018-.020 wound string, that would be (IMO) the
>preferred way of deepening the slot. Don't go too deep or you could get
>playability or tunability (new word) issues.
>
>-bh
>
>On 7/14/07, Lennie Harvey <lh@lennieharvey.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> My high d-string has started popping out when i play hard, the slot has
>> chipped away a bit. So i've ordered some new inserts from Beard Guitars,
>> but
>> in the meantime, I play a festival next weekend and Chocktaw Hayride just
>> isn't going to work if the new inserts don't arrive in time....
>>
>> So all you makers and diy folk, what do i need to do, i reckon i could get
>> a
>> little file and cut the slot a bit deeper...
>>
>> I can always play my holoubek, but it's not the same as the 'horn
>>
>>
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