Members d03nut Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 What recurring -if any- symptom plagues your guitar? Mine seems to be susceptible to catching a cold every now and then (what I call the "wet soundhole" syndrome).
Members JasmineTea Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 Originally posted by d03nut (what I call the "wet soundhole" syndrome). Elaborate please.
Members FingerBone Bill Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 Originally posted by JasmineTea Elaborate please. It means he's overfilling his humidifier!
Members d03nut Posted November 30, 2005 Author Members Posted November 30, 2005 In fact, I believe it has less to do with the guitar itself and more with the strange life cycle of the D'addy lights I use. I keep mentioning this strange phenomenon here on the HC but don't get too much feedback on it. Basically, after the initial honeymoon period is over with a set of new strings, say by day 3, my guitar almost invariably enters a period of sub-par tonal output. It sounds all at once, tinny, muffled, "un-deep", intonationally-challenged etc. Symptoms that I normally associate with on overly humidified guitar. Although, a "dry" guitar, while not muffled sounding per se, does tend to sound tinny TMHE (to my humble ears) as well. Either way, since it's not me who's caught a cold (and thus lost a little sensitivity in the hearing department), then it must be the guitar.
Members FingerBone Bill Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 Originally posted by d03nut In fact, I believe it has less to do with the guitar itself and more with the strange life cycle of the D'addy lights I use. I keep mentioning this strange phenomenon here on the HC but don't get too much feedback on it. Basically, after the initial honeymoon period is over with a set of new strings, say by day 3, my guitar almost invariably enters a period of sub-par tonal output. It sounds all at once, tinny, muffled, "un-deep", intonationally-challenged etc. Symptoms that I normally associate with on overly humidified guitar. Although, a "dry" guitar, while not muffled sounding per se, does tend to sound tinny TMHE (to my humble ears) as well.Either way, since it's not me who's caught a cold (and thus lost a little sensitivity in the hearing department), then it must be the guitar. Hmmmm.... Dr. FingerBone thinks you - ermmm, your guitar - is suffering from "non-coated string syndrome". My esteemed colleague Prof. JasmineTea will, of course, disagree with my treatment but I prescribe a set of Elixir Nanoweb Phosphur Bronze strings. Should have the patient playing sweetly for many weeks!
Members Cldplytkmn Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 if i had acidic enough hands that i burned through uncoated strings after two songs, i'd own half as many guitars as i needed to get through a set... before i'd use elixirs. I really don't think that's the solution.
Members FingerBone Bill Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 Originally posted by Cldplytkmn if i had acidic enough hands that i burned through uncoated strings after two songs, i'd own half as many guitars as i needed to get through a set... before i'd use elixirs. I really don't think that's the solution. Well perhaps he should just stop playing it in the shower!
Members kwakatak Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 Bulging/sinking laminated top. It looks ugly, but it doesn't seem to have changed at all in the last 2 years regardless of the change of seasons. I had it looked at and patched up a couple of years ago so that it seems to be structurally sound once again and even plays much better.
Members d03nut Posted November 30, 2005 Author Members Posted November 30, 2005 I should have added that said period of tonal dis-satisfaction is only temporary. The guitar does eventually -although I may have to wait up to a week- return to its' great-sounding state. From that point on, I can get another month from the D'addys. All in all, not bad. About a month and a half (less a week) from one set of strings. But I'm still perplexed by that "dip" in tone.
Members whatever Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 My acoustic has been doing real well now that I found out that it loves 12s. For years I had been putting on it 9s just like what was on my electrics. It buzzed like crazy with 9s, 10s, and even 11s. But with 12s it's just right.
Members exhaust_49 Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 Only problem (not really) I have with my guitar is chinking at the nut. But its all fixed with a bit of graphite and vasolene.
Members nylon rock Posted November 30, 2005 Members Posted November 30, 2005 My guitar has three diseases: 1) Slight delamination at the tortise binding/wood interface. The wood changes with humidity while the celluloid is unaffected. Very slight roughness and fissure appearance, just need to even out the humidity and temp exposure to solve this. 2) A sinking of the soundhole area relative to the sides, again a function of not enough humidity. Considered correctable by my luthier, but I have to act on it sooner than later, which I am. 3) String wear on the rosewood fretboard leaving light and dark areas due to freshly rubbed rosewood. Will try Petros oil.
Members d03nut Posted December 1, 2005 Author Members Posted December 1, 2005 Glad to see there are no terminal cases
Members JasmineTea Posted December 1, 2005 Members Posted December 1, 2005 Originally posted by d03nut Glad to see there are no terminal cases I've got one: Don't tell anyone I said this but, my D-16GT (although it kicks all kinds of ass) is a little weak around low A, Bflat, and B. Low G down to E is quite strong. It bugs me a little that it's out of ballance there, but I work around it. It was'nt always that way.
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