Members AJ6stringsting Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 I finally got my Schaller tailpiece with fine tuner on my Epiphone Les Paul Custom, it makes life so easy when it comes to playing and tuning while playing. The tail piece sure added more sustain and "thump" to the lower frequencies and the highs seem to have more defined snap. I'm going to add a brass nut next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PrawnHeed Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 What is the point? Fine tuners make sense when you have a locking nut, but without? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 I've been considering getting one of these for My les Paul.Should make any on the fly tunning needs much easier Live.Is it one of these?Gibson TP-6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grawnday Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Since being sucked into the cult of Floyd Rose, these make sense to me. I wonder what dragging the wound strings over the saddles over and over will do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Canadian Jeff Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Originally Posted by grawnday Since being sucked into the cult of Floyd Rose, these make sense to me. I wonder what dragging the wound strings over the saddles over and over will do? Shouldn't do much; the bottom of the string beds on the saddle(s) should be smooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MahaloVision Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Originally Posted by PrawnHeed What is the point? Fine tuners make sense when you have a locking nut, but without? I put a TP-6 on my Gibson S-1 shortly after buying it in '78 because the tuners were so incredibly bad. No problems with the nut. The stock tuners are crap, and that's why you see these Norlin-era guitars equipped with different tuners. Having the fine tuning tailpiece makes it much easier to live with, faster to tune accurately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bengerm77 Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 I would kill for a fine tuning tailpiece that fit my guitar. I have a Greco, and the tailpiece is some weird japanese dimension that didn't fit the gibson TP6 that I bought for it. After using a floyd on every guitar I've had up until that one, I find tuning by just the tuners on the headstock to be practically barbaric. Every turn of the tuner is so imprecise and inelegant, I hate using them and am constantly disappointed by the length of time it takes me to get little adjustments on my tuning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Can you just use the existing posts on a les paul, and just slide in the TP-6? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faber Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Originally Posted by PrawnHeed What is the point? Fine tuners make sense when you have a locking nut, but without? Been wondering the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Originally Posted by Faber Been wondering the same thing. See second sentence in post #3See last sentence in post #6See Third sentence in post #7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faber Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Originally Posted by Mesa/Kramer See second sentence in post #3See last sentence in post #6See Third sentence in post #7 Thanks :thuI can see the reasons why someone might like to have it, but I was wondering whether there was any functional reason for having them that I was missing rather than "just" preferences. Not that preferences isn't enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted December 15, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Originally Posted by Mesa/Kramer I've been considering getting one of these for My les Paul.Should make any on the fly tunning needs much easier Live.Is it one of these?Gibson TP-6 I got both of those Schallers : A gold one on my 2007 Epi Les Paul Custom and a chrome on on my 1971 Medallion series Gibson "Flying V". The Floyd Rose has made me love those fine tuners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ultraworld Posted December 15, 2012 Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Gibson offered these in the 80's and they were well received. It's convenient to play a chord & adjust the offending string without stopping. The best I can tell, it doesn't change sustain. Schaller makes great hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted December 15, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 15, 2012 Originally Posted by Ultraworld Gibson offered these in the 80's and they were well received. It's convenient to play a chord & adjust the offending string without stopping. The best I can tell, it doesn't change sustain. Schaller makes great hardware. I noticed the huge difference in both my "V" and L.P. Custom. When I bought the chrome one for my "V" back in 1997, I just replaced the posts that original came on the Gibson "V". On my Epi Les Paul Custom, I had to replace the the body mount, the posts to slide the Schaller bridge . I'm happy now !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lz4005 Posted December 16, 2012 Members Share Posted December 16, 2012 Originally Posted by Faber I can see the reasons why someone might like to have it, but I was wondering whether there was any functional reason for having them that I was missing rather than "just" preferences. Not that preferences isn't enough Its a 2 inch reach to tweak your tuning with your right hand while holding a chord with your left, rather than a 2+ foot reach. That's pretty much it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bluesidae Posted December 17, 2012 Members Share Posted December 17, 2012 So it works and is easy?? Sold! In my lazy life these are two reasons to do anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nightflameauto Posted December 17, 2012 Members Share Posted December 17, 2012 I'd love to have one of these on the one guitar I have that could fit one. I started on Violin, where it's fairly standard to have at least a fine tuner on the top string, sometimes all of them. Moving to guitar and getting used to only having headstock tuners took some doing. It's just a much more precise movement on bridge end/tailpiece fine tuners. I wish I could find something equivalent for flat-mount bridges/saddles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted December 18, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 18, 2012 I did it for tuning convenience and discovered it gave me more bass and made my highs more defined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mesa/Kramer Posted December 18, 2012 Members Share Posted December 18, 2012 Originally Posted by AJ6stringsting I got both of those Schallers : A gold one on my 2007 Epi Les Paul Custom and a chrome on on my 1971 Medallion series Gibson "Flying V". The Floyd Rose has made me love those fine tuners Yeah, I'm also a long time Floyd user, up until my LP became my number one 5 years ago.Tunning convienence for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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