Well, one thing I’ve learned from my first post here is never to put the word “physics“ into a thread title.
If you’ll permit me to nudge the thread back on-topic, I have attached a picture of my restrung Squier. The A-string still has the least kink over the nut of any of the strings, but the string is pretty low on the tuner peg, and I put a kink in the string right behind where I snipped it so as to hopefully avoid core string slippage. In any case, no problems so far with the freshly restrung beast. I’ll update the thread if there’s anything further to report.
Not to worry - threads can get derailed by the tiniest and most innocent of key or trigger words
It will always have that - this is the aforementioned “design flaw”.
This sounds promising - fingers crossed!
If you ever want to dive even deeper into this string religion/philosophy issue, here is a link to an entrance into yet another rabbit hole - this one on “witness points”:
Hey @beecherscoville to make it even better you want the string to end up at the bottom of the tuning peg. It will create a steeper break angle over the nut.
You basically have string this in reverse.
The strings should come off the pegs at the bottom. Not the top. A quick fix and you’ll be good to go for sure for the long haul.
I don’t know why you think I wouldn’t have done that, but the unclear angle of the picture must be confusing you. The part of the string that comes off the peg and back through the nut, down the neck, etc., is at the bottom-most coil.
To have the string come off the top of the peg, as you suggest it did, would have in fact lessened the angle of the kink, which would have been the opposite of what I was going for.
That’s right, thanks Howard.
Referring to one of your and Joerg’s earlier posts, I also hadn’t heard the term “witness points,” but I did that (that and adding a kink to prevent slippage both being recommended in Scott’s restringing video), although I pressed down on both sides of the bridge saddle.
I wasn’t too worried about the possibility of creating a temporary kink in the sonorous part of the string, imagining that even if I did, the string tension combined with continual plucking would straighten it out, especially since one of the d’Addario strings (D?) already came with a“factory pre-installed” kink somewhere in the middle of the string.
