|  | | 
06-08-2007, 08:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: somerset | |  how to save my pink strings??
Sign in to disble this ad
i recently bought a second hand 5 string, complete with a set of sexylicious pink strings, only problem is that theyre a bit loose (particularly the E and B strings) and was wondering if it would be possible to take them off, cut them to size and then restring them? |
06-08-2007, 08:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Evergreen Park, IL | | | What do you mean "loose"? is it slipping on the tuning peg, or is just floppy? |
06-10-2007, 05:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: somerset | | | theyre just floppy, how easy/possible would it be to cut them to size and restring them? |
06-10-2007, 05:41 PM
| | | they could have been taken off and re fitted, or the material theyre made out of could be the result of the floppiness. i know that when i took mine off and re fitted them, they didnt sound as tinny afterwards. be careful you dont cut too much off if you are cutting them!
id like some coloured strings. maybe some striking blue, red or yellow ones 
__________________
"Excuse me! Could you sschow me where the sschtation is pwleeese?"
"Yes Officer. If you just go down the..."
|
06-10-2007, 06:17 PM
| | Registered User
Freely Endorsing Hartke, DR, Subaru, and Nintendo | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Marietta, GA | | | DR Makes 'em.
__________________
MIA Club #12/Modded Bass Club #6/βΘИΞКЯŲŜĦÏИĞ #60
|
06-11-2007, 12:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Florida | | Dr makes colored strings, I got Black Beauties right now, but I need new ones, gonna get pink to get the band laughing  |
06-12-2007, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: somerset | | pinks the way to go believe me
so if i cut the strings down a bit and refitted them that would be fairly straight forward would it? no side effects to speak of? |
06-13-2007, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Columbus, OH | | | Cutting the strings down in size so there's less wraps around the tuning post isn't going to make the strings have more tension.
The only way to get a tighter B and E strings are to either go up in string guage, raise you're action, get better strings than those floppy pink DR's, or tune the string up to a higher pitch.
Some of these options are more practical than others, but having less wraps around the tuning peg won't do anything to help w/ increased tension. |
06-13-2007, 04:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | The strings ARE as they will be. Cutting them makes no difference to the tension - that's an aspect of string design. if you don't like it you'll have to change strings. |
06-13-2007, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sac Area | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ibz  Cutting the strings down in size so there's less wraps around the tuning post isn't going to make the strings have more tension.
The only way to get a tighter B and E strings are to either go up in string guage, raise you're action, get better strings than those floppy pink DR's, or tune the string up to a higher pitch.
Some of these options are more practical than others, but having less wraps around the tuning peg won't do anything to help w/ increased tension. | I thought I was losing my mind here - of course!
__________________
Basses: Geddy Lee, Jaguar, Fender PB-551, Mark Hoppus Jazz, Michael Kelly Firefly
Head: Markbass LittleMark II
Cab: Markbass Traveler 102P x 2
|
06-13-2007, 05:30 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Phila,Pa. | |  Ba, Ba, Ba, Ba, Ba Ba, Ba,Ba Ba,BA BA,
Quote:
Originally Posted by Enchanter_Tim I thought I was losing my mind here - of course! | +1 |
06-13-2007, 05:31 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Phila,Pa. | | | Those Colored DR's are floppy!
Thats why I hate them! |
06-13-2007, 06:17 PM
| | ...overly qualified for janitorical deployment... | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Cameron, NC USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fell how to save my pink strings?? | Put them in your matching purse.  |
06-13-2007, 06:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Murfreesboro TN | | | If you can get ahold of some kind of spacer for a PC board you can put them between the bridge and the ball of the string, making it longer, and in turn giving it a little more tension.
__________________
Ibanez BTB Prestige/GBE1200/Bergantino NV610/PEDALS!
|
06-13-2007, 06:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Toms River NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Thangfish Put them in your matching purse. | Hahaha |
06-13-2007, 08:50 PM
| | ...overly qualified for janitorical deployment... | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Cameron, NC USA | | Uh, do what?? 
"Longer" has nothing to do with anything other than the distance from nut to bridge saddle... ie. scale length.
If the strings are tuned the way you want, and the strings don't seem to have enough tension, you can either get different strings, or get the same kind in a heavier gauge, or raise the action.
If the original poster is using a set with a .120 or .125 B string, he can get a .130 from DR. That's what I do. Buy a 4-string set and add a single .130. Mix and match until you get a set that suites you.
Hmmm... just checked and DR only makes the .130 B in Black. So sorry, no pink for you!
GHS will sell you any string they make as a single, and it doesn't take long to get them either.
Either give up the pink, or change your technique to deal with the floppy pink. 
Something about that last sentence just sounds wrong. Quote:
Originally Posted by olaff421 If you can get ahold of some kind of spacer for a PC board you can put them between the bridge and the ball of the string, making it longer, and in turn giving it a little more tension. | |
06-13-2007, 10:56 PM
| | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Thangfish Uh, do what??
"Longer" has nothing to do with anything other than the distance from nut to bridge saddle... ie. scale length. | Gary Willis begs to differ.
It's tip #88 in his book, "101 Bass Tips: Stuff All the Pros Know and Use."
He seems to think PC board spacers worked for him when he was looking for increased tension on the B and E strings on his (non-signature) basses.
Last edited by Beta : 06-13-2007 at 10:57 PM.
Reason: forgot to close quotation marks
|
06-14-2007, 10:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Camelon, Scotland | | DR coloured strings like these?   
Why have one colour when you can have them all? |
06-14-2007, 10:53 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Phila,Pa. | | | They look nice but they lack ample tension. |
06-14-2007, 11:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Delberthot DR coloured strings like these?
Why have one colour when you can have them all? | So, do you have perfect pitch because you can see the pitch colours?
__________________
TB Dingwall Club Member #11 | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
