String trees - the rules?

thermionic

thegummy said:

thermionic said:

Most modern Strats have two trees, the ones that don't tend to be vintage reissues of one type or other.

You could also look into staggered tuners if you don't want to drill the headstock... or is it only the B & E that have lower posts on those sets?

The player series and American pro don't have 2 string trees, neither did the standard or American standard.

I looked on the website and out of the 10 I looked at (specifically avoiding vintage ones) only 1 had 2 string trees - the American Special.

The American Pro at least, has staggered tuners, so that might be why.

ICBM

I’ve never come across a Fender that needed the second one if it didn’t have one fitted already. Either staggered posts or using the right amount of string length to wind it far enough down the post always works, even on the G string.

But equally I think they always need the E/B one even with staggered tuners - there just isn’t enough angle even with the string right down to the ferrule.

meltedbuzzbox

ICBM said:

I’ve never come across a Fender that needed the second one if it didn’t have one fitted already. Either staggered posts or using the right amount of string length to wind it far enough down the post always works, even on the G string.

But equally I think they always need the E/B one even with staggered tuners - there just isn’t enough angle even with the string right down to the ferrule.

So how does it work on a Parker fly then?

ICBM

meltedbuzzbox said:

So how does it work on a Parker fly then?

By having a slight angle on the headstock - from memory something like 4 degrees. (By comparison Gibsons are 17, or 14 in the 70s.)

Nerd

Im sliding short piece of wire isolation sleeve on my D string. It works as intended and no drilling required. Try it

Wolfetone

Nerd said:

Im sliding short piece of wire isolation sleeve on my D string. It works as intended and no drilling required. Try it

Novel! In my case it was my mistake and once the string was wound around the post in the correct way, no more rattle.