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06-19-2010, 02:20 AM
| | |  Excuse me, but what the hell is this?
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I've been wondering ever since I started playing. 
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Originally Posted by CrashMiller  That awkward moment when your technique exceeds what can be written with current music writing techniques. | |
06-19-2010, 02:24 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Never never never press that button. It triggers a nuclear armmagedapocalypse the likes of which the world has never seen. |
06-19-2010, 02:26 AM
| | | | Strings pop off the nut without it. That's all |
06-19-2010, 02:28 AM
| | | | What's it called?
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Originally Posted by CrashMiller That awkward moment when your technique exceeds what can be written with current music writing techniques. | |
06-19-2010, 02:28 AM
| | | | It's called a "string tree." |
06-19-2010, 02:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Portland oregon | | | and the reason why some basses dont have them like the epiphone thunderbird is that the headstock is angled back enough that the headstock angle presses the strings into the nut...
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06-19-2010, 02:37 AM
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Originally Posted by HUnt49 Never never never press that button. It triggers a nuclear armmagedapocalypse the likes of which the world has never seen. | Signature'd ;D
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Originally Posted by CrashMiller That awkward moment when your technique exceeds what can be written with current music writing techniques. | |
06-19-2010, 02:42 AM
| | | | armmagedapocalypse &$%#*$%
I like that word for a bands name. |
06-19-2010, 02:48 AM
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06-19-2010, 03:12 AM
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Originally Posted by tifftunes It's called a "string tree." |
Don't forget,now....It needs pruned at least twice a year,too.  |
06-19-2010, 03:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: San Antonio Texas | | | If the strings don't cross the nut at the correct angle they might buzz, and will definitely lose a lot of sustain.
Too much of an angle is bad, too.
The string gets bent and tone/intonation goes in the toilet.
I have been known to add washers under the string tree, or grind away the bottom, just to get it right.
The name "string tree" comes from the way they are made for Fender Stratocasters and Telecasters, etc.
It's a smaller design that has to be seen to be understood.
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06-19-2010, 05:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Shalersville, Ohio | | | Actually it is just the seed of a string tree. If you plant it in the backyard it will grow into one of the trees they use to make strings.
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06-19-2010, 05:46 AM
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Originally Posted by HUnt49 Never never never press that button. It triggers a nuclear armmagedapocalypse the likes of which the world has never seen. |  I love this place.......
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06-19-2010, 06:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Detroit | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DevinF Strings pop off the nut without it. That's all | "pop off the nut" |
06-19-2010, 06:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Detroit, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Invisible_Kid I've been wondering ever since I started playing. | Don't ask questions like that... you know your just encouraging them..... lmao!
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06-19-2010, 06:14 AM
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Originally Posted by HUnt49 Never never never press that button. It triggers a nuclear armmagedapocalypse the likes of which the world has never seen. | I just pressed it and nothing happened, maybe mine is broken. 
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06-19-2010, 06:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Land of Lakland | | | It is a tuning ring. Tap it lightly and it rings an A440 tone |
06-19-2010, 06:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: GTA, Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Aspidites I just pressed it and nothing happened, maybe mine is broken. | Must be Mexican made. 
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06-19-2010, 06:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Scotland | | | Whatever it is there is no need for such an aggressive thread title. It also worries me that OP has a Fender instrument and does not even know what the function of the string tree is....
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06-19-2010, 08:31 AM
|  | Trudging The Happy Road Of Destiny | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The Signpost Up Ahead. | | | Hate to break it to you, but it looks like you've got some sort or fake Fender there. Real ones have a string tree for the E/A strings as well. Your E and A strings are sure to go flying off the nut putting you and anyone near you at risk of severe bodily injury.
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