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Topic: Colored Tuners |
Shane Glover
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Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2009 4:12 pm |
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Hi Guys!! This may be a stupid question but I was just wondering . I have noticed several pics of guitars on the forum that look like someone has used
magic marker on the nylon tuning nuts . Is this a common practice ? If so is there a standard color scheme used ? Thanks for helping a newbie !! |
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Danny Letz
From:
Old Glory,Texas, USA 79540
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Posted 8 Jul 2009 4:57 pm
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| Usually these are compensaters, split tuning, or half stop tuning nuts, but is handy if you need to differenciate one from another. |
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Jeff Harbour
From:
Western Ohio, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2009 4:58 pm
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Oh, I started to worry... My Mom has told me about stuff like "colored" water fountains in Mississippi back in the 50s. I'm glad that kind of discrimination is not entering into our instrument!
Seriously, I'm interested to see what this is too. I would guess it's to make it easier to locate which pull is which, probably someone's personal system. I prefer just feeling for which one is being moved when I'm tuning. Maybe I'm wrong all together. We'll see.
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Jeff Harbour
From:
Western Ohio, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2009 5:00 pm
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| Beat my reply by a minute. Sorry if the information is doubled. |
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2009 6:13 pm
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| Jeff, many of us do look or feel at the endplate to check which rod is moving on a "loaded up" string- but compensators or split tuning rods may move very little, it's helpful to color them differently to avoid adjusting the wrong thing! |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 8 Jul 2009 10:02 pm
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I did that on my Carter when I bought it. I would color the nylon nuts that were on a particular pedal the same color. Sometimes when you press a pedal (like the C pedal)it also moves the E to F nut and you can't really tell which is which. The same happens on the Williams I bought last year, but I haven't colored the nuts. Just an easy way to tell which nut you need to turn.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Tony Rankin
From:
Land O’ Lakes, FL
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Posted 9 Jul 2009 6:48 am
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At least one prominent builder uses this color coding system and I've seen others using elements of this system.
Black = Return Compensators
Blue = Splits
Red = Half-stops
Green = Tuning Compensators
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 9 Jul 2009 7:54 am
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| Sometimes when you press a pedal (like the C pedal)it also moves the E to F nut and you can't really tell which is which. |
That's a very common problem with guitars that use slotted pullers (which is why I hate them). |
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