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I also use 11-48 strings with the LSR Roller Nut, so what you heard was
wrong.
I would like to add something. I have much respect for Dana, who
obviously is very knowledgable and a great guitarist. But I would
respectfully like to disagree with him. As an owner of a Strat with
original Sperzel locking tuners and a LSR roller nut (with which I
replaced that awful roller nut - Wilkinson? - on the original Strat Plus),
I would say that my stock '62 reissues stay in tune as well or better, and
definitely sound better. In fact, I think that I will soon replace both
the roller nut and the Am Std. (two-post) tremolo bridge on my Strat Plus
to the standard vintage hardware. I've come to the conclusion that they
are both very tone-robbing, especially the two post bridge, which doesn't
touch the body. And the Sperzel locking tuners, though they work great,
are quite lethal - my fingers bled from the sharp string ends more than
once! On the other hand, the original Kluson-style vintage tuners have
never made me bleed!
Just to make my case even stronger, this is in response to the discussion
a few weeks ago - I actually have all my Strats set up with a floating
tremolo, and I hardly ever go out of tune! And I use the tremolo a lot
(I'm from the Hank Marvin school of playing). I think the key to staying
in tune with the standard Strat is having it set up by a GOOD tech, which
I did. That was two or three years ago, and my guitars are still holding
their tuning and working great.
If you prefer to have the bridge flush against the body, no problem. But
you definitely should not be getting any tuning problems - of course,
unless you're going for the Eddie Van Halen kind of tremolo use!
Ivan
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Dana and Roberta Vincent wrote:
> I use Ernie Ball Power Slinkys (11-48) with the LSR Roller Nut, and it works
> fine. Not sure about 12s.
>
> Best regards, Dana Vincent
>
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> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: New strat for best surf sounds??
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> It's my understanding that the LSR roller nut only accepts .009 gauge
> strings, which really sucks for surf ( or in general as far as I'm
> concerned ).
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