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Topic: Tuning a push-pull |
Ray McCarthy
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New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2008 10:15 am |
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First, I'm new to the forum, so Hello to all you steelers!
Besides my regular steel, a beautiful blue Derby SD 10 that I got a couple of years ago from Billy Cooper's, I have an old Fender student model that , I've been told was made by Sho Bud, and that it is a push-pull system. This guitar has a single knee lever (RKR) that lowers the 4th and 8th a half. No matter what I do, i cant get the 8th string tuned. If I tune open first, then the peg for the lever, it gets knocked out of the open tune, and visa versa, and so on.
How do you tune these things?  |
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Richard Marko
From:
Dallas, Texas
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Posted 9 Jul 2008 10:24 am
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See if you have a little wheel that turns as the string is being pulled, the one I'm talking about is at the beginning of the fret board where the string goes to the tuning peg.
I had the same problem with my Sho-Bud and found this to be my problem. I used 3 in 1 oil for this.
The wheel has to turn smoothly as to not drag causing tuning issues. |
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Benton Allen
From:
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2008 11:22 am
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Ray,
Welcome to the Forum!!
If my recollection is accurate, and it may not be, those were built for Fender by Sho-Bud in the seventies. There was the Artist Series models (Pro 3 type guitars), and a student model that was sort of a clone of the Maverick. This was not a Push/Pull, but rather a simple Pull/Release changer.
To tune it:
Tune the Raises:
First, depress pedal and tune the raised note at the headstock.
Then, with pedal released, tune the open string at the changer end plate.
Tune the Lowers:
First, tune the string open at the headstock, then engage the knee lever and tune the lowered note at the changer end plate.
Make sure that the knee lever stop is adjusted to allow the string requiring the most travel to reach it's lowered note.
Hope this helps,
Cheers!
Benton |
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