Here is your daily enabling, pedalheads. IK’s newsletter had a thing to get a discounted bundle of their X-series pedals:
All four ends up being $920. $280 for one, $460 for two, etc. You can demo their sounds for free via their installer and Amplitube CS. I have X-Drive plugin for free from their newsletter but have yet to even try it myself lol… just a sale I thought I’d pass on… these pedals were $300 and are now $330.
They are also freaking massive
I can get behind that one. But I already bought my 50th bday bass.
Maybe after I flip the Yamaha SBV-550
When you go to restring a $1250 Korean-made guitar and the nut f’ing falls off. That tends to cool the GAS a bit…
The last time this happened was on a cheap plywood j bass copy. I was young and dumb and laughed about it then, and used it to bend notes…
I guess Sweetwater’s 55 point inspection missed something 
(to be fair, it’s a reverse headstock and the 1st string exits it at an extreme angle toward the tuner. That’s a good amount of sideways tension. now to figure out the best way to glue it on, likely superglue… or not “You shouldn’t glue it really. The nut should be a tight enough fit that it doesn’t need gluing, it shouldn’t move at all once the strings are on. It can’t hurt to put a very thin layer of medium strength glue on, something like Uhu. Don’t super glue it or epoxy glue it or anything like that.” lol…)
Some mfg’s dont glue the nut, it’s a thing.
Don’t necessarily agree it’s a good thing, but a thing.
I didn’t glue it on. I put the outer two strings on, then a couple more plains, then worked on the rest of the inner strings, and then slowly tuned it up, all the while fighting a wiggly nut until I was getting to pitch/tension on all the strings lol
It doesn’t move, now, and to be sure I did some extremely harsh bends.
It looks like there was glue there either way. I normally don’t take all the strings off at once, but I wanted to clean/condition the fretboard. It’s the only gd instrument that doesn’t have fret sprout going on and I wanted to get some oil in there 
Then I lost track of time jamming the fuck out with Bias FX 2’s “Infernal Cowboys” preset 
Any reason? I actually prefer bolt-ons but could do a neck-through. It’s not such a big difference either way, not sure why you would avoid a bolt-on or set neck.
Why? It’s totally normal 
The strings hold the nut down, not glue. You should use as little glue as possible, or (as you saw) none. I like to use a little out of convenience. No more than a tiny dot to tack it in place though. If that.
I haven’t had a nut fall off since my terribad j bass copy, so I was a bit taken aback at first… It was a slight adventure restringing it and fighting the nut wanting to slide all around XD
Yeah I think it surprises people but it’s really common. I would use no glue if I wasn’t lazy. It is convenient to tack the thing in place though.
But the strings are what keep it there, even if it is glued.
Boh talked about bolt on necks once, he prefers them, because if something needs to be serviced you can do it easily or replace the neck. I was a neck through guy until I read that and it made me look at it differently
Bolt-ons nearly always weigh less than neck-through, and despite the myth around them, I haven’t noticed a tone difference in playing around with them. So for me they are just needless added weight.
Kind of like the tonewood argument for body construction really
I think it will become immediately apparently why the nut moved on this one when taking all the strings off
ESP: What do you mean, straight from nut to tuner? All the kids these days love fan frets, and so have some fanned strings!
(yes I am aware reverse headstocks have been a thing for a very long time lol…)
And here we see straight and godly as all good things should be:
(it also happens to be the last instrument I took all the strings off at once on. which I might do again to get more oil into that fretboard without soaking the strings in it lol)
Yeah totally. Even if glued, the side force of taking the strings off asymmetrically there might be enough to break the glue
I do this every time. I find the myths around this being bad to be really amusing.
I have two guitars with floating tremolos that I do not take all the strings off at once XD I think I could on the Ibanez, though; it has some sort of compensator for strings breaking. Or just block the trem first if something is handy.
I’ve left strings off instruments for days before. The only precaution I take when restringing is I get all the strings on there and then bring them all up to pitch a bit at a time, but I have absolutely no idea if this is needed or not, it’s just how I do it. I actually like changing strings, though. I’ll have to retune as more and more tension comes onto the neck anyway.
I think that might actually be the best way to store them.
Yeah for sure, or for things like tune-o-matic bridges.
As long as it’s fixed and not one of the floating ones held on by strings you’re good
yeah I literally just read they can come off and get put on backwards lol. But that also the “correct” orientation is intonation screws facing the neck, which I actually noted while just looking it over, so I guess no harm, no foul here (Edit I also just discovered because I was staring at that pic, I played the guitar for like half an hour without the 6th string seated properly lol. didn’t even notice…)
Unrelated, I just also randomly discovered an article with a bass that has pickups that look like the Talking Bass guy’s, they’re called Sims Super Quads. Kinda like Fluences, I guess; they can change to P, J, MM voicings, etc.
