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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
----- Original Message -----
From: viktor423
To:
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 6:16 PM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: New strat for best surf sounds??
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 ).
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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Good points, Ivan! The important thing to remember is to get whatever
arrangement you are using set up correctly, and then maintained. I had
tried the stock nut and earlier floating bridge arrangement successfully for
many years, but wanted it to be more bulletproof; hence the LSR Roller,
blocked bridge, Sperzel locking tuner route. My backup guitar is a
completely stock 57 re-issue (except for the blocked bridge), which does
stay in tune very well with proper maintenance. Each guitar has a different
tone (of course), but both maintain the throaty, sustained voicing I was
seeking. I never felt the two-post bridge or the LSR nut detracted from the
tone, but I was not going for the more defined Hank Marvin sound. By the
way, this has been a great topic (beats the hell out of instrument
preference bashing)!
Best regards, Dana Vincent
----- Original Message -----
From: IVAN PONGRACIC
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Re: LSR Roller Nut
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
