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Posted by keith (from: userbn19.netscapeonline.co.uk) on January 29, 2001 at 00:09:58:

In Reply to: string question posted by blah on January 29, 2001 at 00:01:12:

: if I want to increase teh guage of strings I put in the guard I know i have to adjust the bridge on my guitar because the new guage is increasing the pull on the bridge...nowI know I just open up the back of the guitar and then loosen those screws that connect to the bridge from the back....but my quesiton is, is there any certain amount that I'm suppose to losen these screws?

I'm trying to picture what you're doing here and it doesn't feel right to me. Does your guitar have a trem arm? If it does then I think I see what you're saying, and as I've never really used gutars with trem arms much I couldn't advise you except to say that I don't think you need to unscrew anything. I might be mistaken, in which case I'm sure someone will say so, but I really don't think installing heavier strings means you need to be unscrewing anything. If you don't have a trem arm then you definitely don't need to be unscrewing anything inside the guitar. Theoretically, the heavier strings will change the setting of the neck and require an adjustment to the intonation, but it is theoretically. I'm quite sure it is sometimes necessary but I've not needed to on most of the guitars I've put heavier strings on. Perhaps someone with better ears than me can hear that there's a problem, but no-one's ever mentioned it. What's the guitar, does it have a trem arm and how much heavier are you going? And having gone heavier, are you dropping the tuning, because if you are - and many people do - then you're going to cancel out the increased tension anyway.

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: : if I want to increase teh guage of strings I put in the guard I know i have to adjust the bridge on my guitar because the new guage is increasing the pull on the bridge...nowI know I just open up the back of the guitar and then loosen those screws that connect to the bridge from the back....but my quesiton is, is there any certain amount that I'm suppose to losen these screws? : I'm trying to picture what you're doing here and it doesn't feel right to me. Does your guitar have a trem arm? If it does then I think I see what you're saying, and as I've never really used gutars with trem arms much I couldn't advise you except to say that I don't think you need to unscrew anything. I might be mistaken, in which case I'm sure someone will say so, but I really don't think installing heavier strings means you need to be unscrewing anything. If you don't have a trem arm then you definitely don't need to be unscrewing anything inside the guitar. Theoretically, the heavier strings will change the setting of the neck and require an adjustment to the intonation, but it is theoretically. I'm quite sure it is sometimes necessary but I've not needed to on most of the guitars I've put heavier strings on. Perhaps someone with better ears than me can hear that there's a problem, but no-one's ever mentioned it. What's the guitar, does it have a trem arm and how much heavier are you going? And having gone heavier, are you dropping the tuning, because if you are - and many people do - then you're going to cancel out the increased tension anyway.

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