On Wednesday decided to put some flatwounds on the Strad O Lin. Simple enough, right?
Took the clamshell off without using tools. Jammed one of the tailpiece tines between the nail and finger on the right. Owie! Thankfully bleeding stopped quickly.
Okay, then starting swapping strings. Oh, and the G and A start slipping. As the D'Addario don't have silk wraps, there is nothing to grip the soundpost. So have to do an over/under wrap to lock the string. Did I mention this SOL has very short tuner posts? It does. Like really short. Like one wrap above the post hole is at the very top of the post.
Finally get that done. Then start on the A and E strings. No problem until the last E string. Pops out of the tailpiece tine a couple of times. No biggie. But by the time it's done a second time, the string has now been kinked near the tuner post. What? How did that happen? Seriously. Sigh. And I couldn't undo it. On top of it, it would be below the post so the string would break from the stress. Okay, to the spares and get another E.
Sigh. So instead of something that should have taken about 20 minutes, wound up taking an hour.
Just frustrating. And for those who want to say wrap around the post first then through the hole, nope. Not with flatwounds on this instrument. They will not hold the free end of the string enough to keep from slipping. Tried it. And If you can get it tightly wrapped above and below the hole before sending the string through, you're better at it than I am. It could be done. Just would take me too much time. (Not that this didn't).
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