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Yep. Learned it a long time ago. Stuff works easily in it.
Try Fahey’s Sunflower tuning, too – CGCGCE
It’s remarkable how much works in it.
Our redwoods took a good trimming from the wind. We’re not going to need the tree service this year.
A neighbor’s walnut blew down, and there’s an old black acacia down as well. I’m already trying to get some of the wood; both make good guitars (et cetera)
Did you ever read Rick Turner’s article in Acoustic Guitar discussing a huge shaker table to vibrate guitars to break them in? Scary, but it apparently worked. Timbre Tech was the name of the company.
500 strikes a year? Good grief…I forget how flat it is. Stick your head up and the lighting will get ya.
I hear what you say about ATL. I used to spend a bunch of time building computers for local public safety in Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb and more, and I never got used to hearing “It’s right off Peachtree…..”. I was never as glad as when car GPSes started giving good directions so I had a prayer of figuring out where I needed to go.
I put a set on for a friend who had 510s and they fit fine. Easy as pie….detune string, unscrew the old button, pull off the nylon and metal washers, put the screw in the new button, add washers, tighten, retune.
The quality was excellent. I found them a little gaudy but they worked for the guitar owner…..
Sounds like it had a good trip and it’s more comfortable in the corral now.
I’m waiting on a Martin OM for repair; missing it a lot.
Hi Tad – The gent who runs Charis guitars makes wooden drop-in replacements for what you’ve got.
https://www.charisacoustic.com/replacement-tuner-buttons
In the past, I’ve done ebony/black plastic and ivoroid on 12-strings – the ebony/black plastic is the fundamental and the ivoroid is the octave. It does speed up tuning though it looks a bit odd.
Tad, oil that gets into the end-grain wood of string post holes also swells the wood…and makes binding problems worse. Not that I’ve ever had to deal with it, of course 🙂
The key thing is to release string tension and then mounting-plate screw tension to see whether or not either allows the tuner to move freely.
If either causes the tuner to move easily, bang, the post is binding, and that has to be fixed either via remounting the tuners, relieving the base of the post holes ever so slightly, or both.
