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Topic: Advice on restringing an Emmons... |
Tom Quinn
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Posted 7 May 2015 1:09 pm |
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I've got to restring the guitar arriving today = 20 strings. I fully remember trying to keep the ball end on those little pins while trying to crank the tuner at the other end without kinking the string or having the whole mess come undone at the changer.
Is there some really cool "trick" I don't know about when it comes to restringing an Emmons? Something that makes the job less of a pain in the you know what? Cue tips, rubber bands, MIG welder? ;- )
Any suggestions/advice as always highly appreciated...
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Scott Duckworth
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Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 7 May 2015 1:44 pm
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Stick a small foam paint brush or one of wife's foam makeup wedges between the finger and body, trapping the ball end there.
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Ian Worley
From:
Sacramento, CA
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Posted 7 May 2015 6:30 pm
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| I just use a small folded over piece of a corrugated cardboard box the width of the changer slot |
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John Davis
From:
Cambridge, U.K.
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Posted 7 May 2015 11:00 pm
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| I would think you would have a small pair of wire clippers at your string change just wrap a small amount of insulation tape around one arm of the clippers until its a snug fit tween the ally and the pin.... |
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Tom Quinn
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Posted 8 May 2015 4:06 am
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Thanks guys!
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Billy McCombs
From:
Bakersfield California, USA
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Posted 8 May 2015 6:31 am
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A rubber wedge door stop work.
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Lee Warren
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 8 May 2015 6:55 am
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I've used a wooden clothes pin for 20+ years.
Keeps the ball end in place and doesn't mar the metalwork.
Lee
p.s.
I drilled a small hole in the clothes pin that secures it over the ball end and changer pin. |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 28 Jun 2015 7:37 am
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My wife's finger works well, otherwise I use the rubber coated handle-end of my wire cutters
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Eric Philippsen
From:
Central Florida USA
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Posted 28 Jun 2015 10:27 am
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I use one of those small flat rectangular pencil erasers to hold the string's ball-end on the small pin. I just push it down between the
string and the body. No need to jam it down. Just place it in the gap.
Works for me. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 28 Jun 2015 10:30 am
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| i just keep a little tension on the string. |
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Tom Quinn
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Posted 28 Jun 2015 10:58 am
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Here's a great idea. Thanks Larry!
"Tom, I made this up many years ago, and it still is working. I took an old pair of cheap tweezers, and drilled a hole the size of the string pin. I just squeeze them and slip it one the pin after putting the string on the pin. It will stay there until you squeeze it and remove it.
Works great and will last a life time.
You may post this if you like it as a solution.
Larry Petree"
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John Booth
From:
Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 28 Jun 2015 2:29 pm
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| Tom Quinn wrote: |
Here's a great idea. Thanks Larry!
"Tom, I made this up many years ago, and it still is working. I took an old pair of cheap tweezers, and drilled a hole the size of the string pin. I just squeeze them and slip it one the pin after putting the string on the pin. It will stay there until you squeeze it and remove it.
Works great and will last a life time.
You may post this if you like it as a solution.
Larry Petree" |
Capital Idea !
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Nathan Golub
From:
Durham, NC
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Posted 28 Jun 2015 5:14 pm
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| Lee Warren wrote: |
I've used a wooden clothes pin for 20+ years.
Keeps the ball end in place and doesn't mar the metalwork.
Lee
p.s.
I drilled a small hole in the clothes pin that secures it over the ball end and changer pin. |
That's what I use too, works great. |
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