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    Installing Round Core Strings

    I’m sure the question has been posed many times but I can’t find the info. Installing a set of DR round cores. My experience, with 6 string sets, is that you need them to trim them after they are at full tension. That isn’t possible with my bass tuners. Is trimming them to length before...
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    Fender Rumble Club

    It’s a 91 MIM that I stripped, repainted, and nitro lacquered and relic’ed about 10 years ago. I loaned it out for years and finally got it back recently to start playing. I put a Dimarzio Model J in the neck. I really don’t want to reroute the bridge because I’m not a woodworker, so eventually...
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    Fender Rumble Club

    I noticed that when I play up around 7th fret on the A string, on my Rumble, I hear a vibration. Been reading through some older threads and HOPE that it’s just an EQ problem.
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    Fender Rumble Club

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    Fender Rumble Club

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    Fender Rumble Club

    Thank you so much. I’m somewhat a beginner. A bought a gigged with 91 MIM JB in 2009 and got bored rather quickly, at no fault of the instrument. In 2011 I stripped it, repainted, and nitro lacquered it. It was a pretty terrible job, pulling up chunks of laminate from the heat gun. I had no idea...
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    Fender Rumble Club

    Proud owner of my first Rumble. 40v3. Did I pass initiation??