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Topic: Guaged rollers for a Sho-Bud Pro=3 |
Paul Foster
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 4:45 am |
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HI All You Pedal pushers,
I have a Pro-3 and in the first several frets I get a terrible string "Buz" and have to hold a lot of down pressure on my bar to eliminate it, some one suggesteed "Guaged Rollers but I cant seem to be able to find them Help anyone?? It was a d-10 converted to a S-10 with a nice pad Thanks everyone, keep stealing!!!! Paul navion@q.com |
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Storm Rosson
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Silver City, NM. USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 6:03 am
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 just get hold of Don Burrows of BSG guitars, he will make you rollers of any size and guage you need . Don's a great guy does fabulous work and very reasonably priced....  [url]wingingit@roadrunner.com[/url] |
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Jimmie Martin
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 10:33 am rollers
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| Don has made several for me. He's first class. |
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Paul Foster
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2010 3:44 pm rollers
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| Thanks for the information, Im in the process of having Dan make a set of brass rollers for me, he replied in record time and his prices are certainly fair!! Thanks to all!!! |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 1 Apr 2010 3:04 am
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Paul Franklin, Sr, told me that when he worked at Sho-Bud they were getting a lot of complaints about string buzzing and after investigating and experimenting he found that the gauged rollers were the cause of the problem. He said he fitted one guitar with a set of "one size" rollers and that eliminated the problem. He said David Jackson didn't want to hear that and for a long time rejected the one size roller but later relented, after getting a lot of complaints from owners, and they started using one size roller.
I had asked him about gauged rollers as they are not used on Franklin's and because of the problems they had at Sho-Bud he decided not to use gauged rollers on his guitars. I don't have any sting buzz, for example at the first fret, so it's never been a problem. It wasn't a problem for me with my old 71 PP Emmons that didn't have gauged rollers. |
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Paul Foster
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2010 4:16 am guaged rollers
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| I went to the convention in Phoenix a while back and one of the fellows installed guaged rollers on his Mullen and has NO string buzz in the first fret with No pressure on the bar , NO BUZZ AT ALL, my Sho-Bud was so bad that you could not play in the first three frets without really pushing down on the bar, I guess each Guitar is different we will see!! I just ordered a set |
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Storm Rosson
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Silver City, NM. USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2010 6:49 am
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 I think you nailed it, every guitar is a different animal, just for fun check the rollers and changer end with a bonafide straightedge just to make sure nothing got drilled or machined improperly, it's a long shot but it happens |
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Stu Schulman
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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 1 Apr 2010 8:50 am
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Paul,Don Burrows made a set of gauged rollers for me a couple of years ago and the do work...You will need to send Don one of your rollers so he can take measurements and a list of the string gauges that you use.
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