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#13,303
Jay2U said:
Climatic changes have always been affecting tuning and intonation of our beloved instruments. This will no longer be the case with the newly developed Fender All Weather Bass™. A trussrod, made of self-adjusting nano-tubes, will counteract any expansion or contraction of the wood.
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It would have been on the market sooner but it took a decade of research to ensure it would still have a dead spot.
 
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#13,307
Speaking of,
It's called a Truss Rod because Mr. Stewart had perfect posture.
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#13,309
Killing Floor said:
Speaking of,
It's called a Truss Rod because Mr. Stewart had perfect posture.
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that's wrong..... the real reason they call it a truss rod is... Before it was invented, people use to get hernias trying to straighten out bent guitar necks... Truss rods stopped people from wearing a truss after setting up their guitars.

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Scooter Johnson said:
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that's wrong..... the real reason they call it a truss rod is... Before it was invented, people use to get hernias trying to straighten out bent guitar necks... Truss rods stopped people from wearing a truss after setting up their guitars.

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Oh, yeah, I think you are right. I wish you didn't photoshop the safety goggles on my head. Makes me look weak.
 
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The location of the dead spot on the G-string can be easily calculated. Divide the weight of the instrument by the scale length and multiply by the number of frets. Round the result to a whole number and you'll get the number of the fret concerned.
Example
Weight: 11 lbs
Scale length: 34"
Number of frets: 21
(11/34).21=6.79
Rounding to a whole number gives the seventh fret.
 
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Jay2U said:
The location of the dead spot on the G-string can be easily calculated. Divide the weight of the instrument by the scale length and multiply by the number of frets. Round the result to a whole number and you'll get the number of the fret concerned.
Example
Weight: 11 lbs
Scale length: 34"
Number of frets: 21
(11/34).21=6.79
Rounding to a whole number gives the seventh fret.
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Isn't the location of the dead spot on the G-string called the G-spot... and isn't true that no man can find the true G-spot !!!?????
 
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It's interesting that Precision is from the Shona (Bantu) word kunyatso. Kunyatso also means really. A safari in Zimbabwe was on Leo Fender's bucket list but he never was able to go. Zimbabwe is really far away from California and that's precisely why he never went on safari. The 7 stripes on the Zimbabwe flag reminded Leo of laminated necks, that's why Precision basses and guitars have 1-piece necks.
 

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Scooter Johnson said:
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that's wrong..... the real reason they call it a truss rod is... Before it was invented, people use to get hernias trying to straighten out bent guitar necks... Truss rods stopped people from wearing a truss after setting up their guitars.
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and the "skunk stripe" is so named because of the old trick learned by the straighteners back in the day to rub their truss along the length of the neck before attempting to straighten it. Some think it's a veneer, but the truth is that Canadian maple really does get those stubborn stains out.
 
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Killing Floor said:
It's interesting that Precision is from the Shona (Bantu) word kunyatso. Kunyatso also means really. A safari in Zimbabwe was on Leo Fender's bucket list but he never was able to go. Zimbabwe is really far away from California and that's precisely why he never went on safari. The 7 stripes on the Zimbabwe flag reminded Leo of laminated necks, that's why Precision basses and guitars have 1-piece necks.
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Interestingly, in Japanese kunyatso is the word for the process of simplifying a design to its most essential components , which was very much Leo's design ethic.
 
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Wait just a doggone minit. Hold on a sec. Did I miss something where someone said tubes are filled with vacuum? Isn't vacuum the absence of air, like, atmosphere? Like, there ain't nuthin init? So, how can it be filled with nuthin?

I sense a deep, deep guvmint conspiracy. There MUST be SOMETHING init, or else how could it be filled with it? Um. And so men DID fly to the moon, or else how did they get there, cause birds *FLY* in the air, so if there's no air in outer space, how did men *FLY* there?

HAH! Fake newz.....
 
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