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Topic: Zero Glide for Square Neck Dobro |
Dale Grebey
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Florida, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2016 8:52 am |
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Zero Glide Review for Lap Steel players.
"Okay, so it’s been a few months now with the ZerO Glide nut on one of my Gold Tone PBS-D’s.
Installation is very easy. I used a sparing amount of thin cyanoacrylate to set the fret wire and the nut after sanding to correct width.
The tone is great! Both of my 6-string PBS-D's were set up by Paul Beard, so the bone nuts were not a problem as is (binding, buzzing or height). I want the zero fret for metallic tone in the open position and for lower wear from tuning.
The thin amount of material left on the fret slot is very delicate. In just handling it during installation, I unfortunately had about a third of it fracture off and had to glue it back. You could leave more material on the fretboard side by extending the scale length of the guitar by an 1/16 to 1/8”. This would arguably not be an issue since we play this instrument by ear relative untouched frets or fret markings. That is, intonation is not super critical these extremely high “action” necks as it is with fretted instruments or fretless instruments fingered on a marked fingerboards.
Consider including these on your deluxe model squarenecks.
I am going to order two more from the website today. One will be spec’d to fit your 8-string PBS-8 which I leave in a G6 tuning." |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 27 Jan 2016 9:13 am
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Here is the website for the curious:
http://www.zeroglide.com
I get the part about tuning stability and decreased nut wear, but the tuning stability on my Clinesmith is already very good.
Not sure I follow the part about wanting a "more metallic" tone from the open strings. The "recipe" of a wooden resonator guitar body combined with the metallic contribution of the cone - to my ears pretty significant - I don't know that I would want it any more metallic than it already is.
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 27 Jan 2016 10:59 am
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seems unnecessary to me.
and yet another opportunity for your local expert luthier to screw up your axe. |
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Niels Andrews
From:
Salinas, California, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2016 12:25 pm
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This is akin to fishing lures to catch more fish and golf clubs to improve your swing. Balderdash. Tone comes from hours spent playing not out of a bottle or by any device.
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Good Stuff like Zum S-12, Wolfe Resoport
MSA SS-12, Telonics Combo. |
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Dale Grebey
From:
Florida, USA
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Charlie McDonald
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out of the blue
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Posted 29 Jan 2016 2:51 am
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I don't know about lapsteel, but this could be the solution to my problems both personal and scientific for my Asian strat knockoff
with intonation problems in the lower frets. (It's so cheap that it was free.)
Thanks for the link, Dale; Guitar Interactive Magazine is a nice gear/review/instruction mag, very enjoyable. |
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Kenan Ozan
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2016 2:44 pm
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| I have one on my dobro and love it. It seems noticeably louder and it's easier to tune. The string doesn't get caught in the nut anymore. They're really simple and cheap so I gave it a shot and really ended up digging mine. |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 1 Feb 2016 1:44 pm
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Can anyone tell me the price and the source? There's not a dealer in town. Just what I'm needing.
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Those that say don't know; those that know don't say.--Buddy Emmons |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 1 Feb 2016 2:08 pm
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| Charlie McDonald wrote: |
| Can anyone tell me the price and the source? There's not a dealer in town. Just what I'm needing. |
Charlie, in my earlier post I provided the link to the website, it's all there.
Here it is again:
http://www.zeroglide.com
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