Years of my life I have saved by doing that!
..little to no string slippage during tuning too!
Ok now you're exaggerating...
I've done that before, but I use Elixir Nanoweb coated strings since they came out, and the coating doesn't go all the way to the end of the string (opposite the ball end). So putting them on "backwards" leaves a couple inches at the bridge uncoated and in turn unprotected.
Fortunatly this break was an easy fix and with the woodgrain, and only the pressure of the high E and B strings would be on it, so I felt no need for any pins or dowels. If you're a woodworker I'm sure you've heard "a good glue joint is stronger than the wood itself." Plus, about 85% of the pressure coming from the E and B is parallel to the break, except the pressure from being off center as the string line is above the plane of the headstock, forcing the pressure forward and wanting to rip it off! This is what happened when I tightened the strings after the makeshift fix I did with a guitar strap string for acoustics, (I finally figured out where that "shoestring" came from
). The break wanted to pull forward, but I was able to hold it back until I got the two strings tight enough so I could lock the locknut. Then it didn't matter so I loosened the strings to let the glue cure until next string change. Another reason I didn't use pins or dowels or even a biscuit was, and this is prolly the biggest reason, is that I don't work in a shop or have the tools anymore
. This is what divorce can do so stay single guys.
I've also fixed complete breaks at the nut of Les Pauls where there's not a lot of wood there, but the glue still holds, until the guy you fixed it for doesn't use a guitar stand
and instead just leans it against his amp and when it falls, and believe me it does, again, and again, it's gonna break again no matter how you fix it.
Some guys just never learn.
Once the strings have been tuned up to pitch you don't even need the tuning pegs any more with a Floyd, hell they even make some guitars that don't use the tuning pegs at all. If memory serves the strings have a ball at both ends and changing all six strings takes no more than 5 minutes, and all you use to tune them is the fine tuners. Just one problem, you
have to use
Floyd's strings, and I haven't seen them around in quite a while so I bet that was a big deal breaker for a lot of playa's, I know it was for me, I gotta have my Elixirs!
Plus with Floyd equipped guitars going out of style for Wilkenson trems or no trem at all, no string manufacturer like Elixir was going to jump on that money grabbing wagon.
Haha, sometimes I amuse myself...
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