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11-04-2010, 08:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: A Sandgropers' City | |  Remedy for Grippy Flats?
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Hi all,
I have a very well worn in set of TI flats on my P; which I love tonally.
But.....
After I've been playing around a set worth of songs, the flats get grippy, making big slides a bit hard - so I get the odd one a bit wrong.
.....so I've been making the slides a bit shorter (*cough* lame).
What can I do the fix this? |
11-04-2010, 09:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Minnesota | | | Have you tried Fast Fret? Or that spray stuff... I forget what that's called
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11-04-2010, 10:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: A Sandgropers' City | | | No.
I've been reluctant so far to use anything. Do those products have any effect on the strings or the frets/fretboard? |
11-04-2010, 10:30 PM
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11-04-2010, 10:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Blimp City | | | That's what i use and it has no effect on the bass or board, good stuff.
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11-04-2010, 11:37 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | How long is "well worn in"? I find all flats grippy when new. And I found TIs very very rough for flats. |
11-04-2010, 11:56 PM
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11-05-2010, 10:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: A Sandgropers' City | | | ha ha. The TI's are around 3 or 4 months solid playing, as it's my go-to bass.
I'll have to have a go with the nose first, if only just to gross out our drummer. |
11-05-2010, 10:21 AM
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Endorsing Artist: J.C. Basses | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, Arizona 85029 | | | I'd rub them with denatured alcohol to clean off the initial stickiness and then, depending on how they feel afterward, use the fast fret.
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11-05-2010, 10:21 AM
|  | Bare Bones Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Denver, CO | | | Try wiping them down a little bit first. We all exude different stuff from our hands, and you may just need to clean off a little finger gooj. (Yes, I made that word up.) If that doesn't fix it, some of those spray-on products work pretty well.
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11-06-2010, 06:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Netherlands | | | My experience with Fast Fret on bass, especially with flats were not too good.
I do like it for guitar, but it makes the flats feel a bit unreal to me.
The strings seem to get a strange difference in static and dynamic friction (like when you start sliding your hand simply doesn't stop anymore and completly slides of the bass (O.K. exaggerated)).
It won't harm your strings and wares of quite soon, so no worries in trying yourself.
For myself: I wish they made coated flats (I want black ones!) |
11-06-2010, 04:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Normandie, France | | | I use fastfret once in a while when the flats get sticky. It cleans and lubricates them. It only gets too slippery if you don't wipe it off properly IME. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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