Bloody Shame of Stringing a Twelve

sneakers · Post by **sneakers** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:20 am

If you have a Dunlop trigger type capo holding the new strings to the fingerboard so that they don't fall out of the tailpiece it's really OK. I'm going through neck straightening battles right now, approaching spring but still winter, humidity changes between night and day, etc. My biggest fobia is changing the strings on my 325 Hamburg with that evil Bigsby tailpiece.

flabbeyroad · Post by **flabbeyroad** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:07 am

Here's another restringing tale: About 2 months ago, our lead player had just fixed a broken string, and neglected to snip or coil up the end.
As he turned to say something, the protruding string got caught in the windscreen of his mic, which then fell over into his music stand. That in turn also fell, causing a thick hardcover music book to fly off of it and knock over the two opened beers that were on his amp. Some beer spray also landed on his 360/12 and his Gretsch.
I know some of you are thinking, why did he have TWO open beers? I can't answer that, but I can say that I always trim my strings - now.

bigbajo60 · Post by **bigbajo60** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:40 pm

And the name of Jim's unlucky lead player is...

(drum roll please!)

...Inspector Jacques Closeau!

admin · Post by **admin** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:56 pm

Jim: With all that beer around I thought you were going to say that the protruding strings on his 360/12 became half cut.