String contact with inside of pegbox??

[James Gibson]

Is it necessarily bad for either the bass or strings if the strings touch the inner wall of the pegbox? i took crappy pictures with my phone to illustrate what i mean:





thanks!

[Francois Blais]

Why don't you cut off some string excess to get less turns on the tuner?

[T-Bal]

Evah weichs? You can also just pull them through the hole an inch or two if you don't want to trim them.

[JtheJazzMan]

how about fanning the strings? ie the G string attaches the closest peg, and the E string attaches on the furthest one? It really helps to minimise string contact

[drurb]

Simply put, yes it is bad to have the windings pressed up against the cheeks of the peg box. Unless your strings are unusually long or the mensur of the bass is particularly short, then this can be remedied without cutting the strings and without changing their assignment to the tuning pegs. It is a matter of placing a sufficient number of windings to the opposite side of tuning peg before crossing over.

Let's take your A string as an example. Look at all the space that remains on the right side of the tuning peg. Just one or two more windings on that side before crossing back would have alleviated the problem. You just need to trade some of the room on the right to free up some on the left. Notice that every other one of your strings seems to have plenty of space on the "opposite side" of the tuning peg.

If it were my bass, they would all be re-strung (except for the D which seems not to be pressed up against the cheek), but that's just me.

[Jake deVilliers]

Its not good to have the windings jammed against the pegbox - they can act as a wedge and crack the cheeks off.

I would pull the string through the hole a couple of inches. Cut them or tuck them in behind the tuner shafts.

[bonaventura]

winding the strings into the cheeks of the pegbox affects your sound by dampening string vibrations. like everything else, e.g., nut and bridge groove width.

+1

i see your strings are almost all flat on the peg. that can affect your sound too if, say, the D or A string have any contact with the G string peg. i can't tell for sure, but it looks like they do.

if so, your D and A sustain could benefit from having no contact with the G string peg. it can be tricky to wind them so the A and D string bunch up to a more elevated level and stretch directly to the nut without any contact. doesn't look so nice and neat, but heck, nobody's looking and that's not what counts anyway ("it's all about the sound..." )...

cheers

[MIKMAN]

Ah, i learned how bad it is by breaking three (yes three) E Spiros mittel during my first year with the DB and wondering why it happened. Then i applied common sense and used all the space available in the peg, so everything settled. The dampening of the vibrations is also significant, so avoid any contact with the peg box walls.