Well Roger,
I reckon that paper doesn't any good for a clear sounding string....
When looking close to the paper it's sticking out on both sides of the nut, so maybe the part towards the frets is dampen the string.....who knows?
Cheers Rob
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Uncle Fiesta wrote:I seem to remember Hank mentioning that at first he couldn't get on with the heavy gauge strings that were on his Strat when he got it. If he later replaced them with lighter ones, this could well have caused rattling in the nut, which would have been cut for the original strings.
cockroach wrote:Well, back then, the two most important things to players were the lowest, easiest action (heaven after the cheap things we had to learn on) and as much treble as possible!
Flatwounds don't tend to rattle and buzz as much as roundwounds- I played a three hour gig last night using only a Strat copy with 12-52 Monopole flatwounds with a reasonably low action...no buzzes etc but they are pretty dead sounding however (got another gig tomorrow night too, will be using the same guitar)
Using roundwounds after flats might give rise to some buzzes etc - maybe that's why Hank had a problem which he fixed as best as he could..
Not really knowing exactly what type of strings he used doesn't help- apart from the original strings on 34346, which were probably Fender flatwounds about 13-56, who knows what strings he used as time went by? He must have broken a few strings and restrung with new sets sometime. Sooner or later, he would have used up the OE strings and the spare sets which were ordered and presumably supplied with the guitar.
Also, back then he was young, energetic, and as video clips show, he played pretty hard and used the vibrato arm a lot- he was likely to have broken a few strings!
Who knows what available strings he may have used when the Fender strings were gone- Cathedral, Hofner etc?
Hank2k wrote:with regards strings i do wonder whether Hanks strings were as old as we all believe. In the book "The Shadows By Themselves" from i think 1960 Hank says he changed his strings often (every week or two) as he was so scared of snapping a string when playing after an incident where it snapped and touched something else mid set and gave him an electric shock.
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