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Topic: Steel Guitar Lubrication -- Is Tri-Flow Really the Best? |
Bobby Nelson
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North Carolina, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2019 1:00 am |
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| Does anyone recommend lubing the changer (where the string rolls off of it) when changing strings? |
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Charley Bond
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Inola, OK, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2019 6:49 am Brain Lube
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I talked with Len Ameral, who invented it & he said that Brain Lube was good, but that he preferred Tr-Flo... I guess that's that, It's a settled selection.
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Mark Hepler
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2019 7:27 am
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| Bobby Nelson wrote: |
| Does anyone recommend lubing the changer (where the string rolls off of it) when changing strings? |
Bobby, Your idea's got merit, but you'd have to use a bone-dry lube that doesn't migrate into the wound strings.
I accidentally doused my 10th string with 3-in-1 once: killed the tone & sustain.
But a hair of Teflon or silicone on top of a changer may prevent unwound strings from snapping if you have that issue. |
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Bobby Nelson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2019 8:03 am
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| Thanks Mark. Being new to it, I'm trying to land somewhere between the folks who say "oil every time" and the ones who say "No need to oil all that much" (which is the side I'd probably tend to land on). In my years of stringing Stratocasters (which stretch strings too if you use the wang bar a lot, as I did), the only thing I ever used, was to roll some graphite off the tip of a pencil. My strings have been on there about 7 1/2 months, and have not broke a one yet, and really haven't had any real intonation problem - I just feel it's time. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2019 8:11 am
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Oil on a string will deaden the tone.
Erv |
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Bobby Nelson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2019 8:37 am
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| Thanks Erv - That's really the short version of what I wanted to know haha! |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2019 9:51 am
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I'm a man of few words! 
Erv |
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