Floating bridge staying in tune

[Robert]

Here's a tip for you. My floating tremolo bridge would make strings go sharp. I tried lubricating the nut and changing strings even made it worse. I asked John Suhr about it, and he said try lubricating where the strings sit on the saddles. It worked marvelously! :applause

I know can push the whammy up and bar almost as much as I like, and the strings go back the right pitch every time. Very good tip, and be sure to try it if you have problems with going out of tune with your floating tremolo bridge. Just put a little dab of lubrication under the strings, where they run over the saddles. Grease is good!

I used Big Bend's Nut Sauce but I am sure other similar products will work just as well.

I love being in tune!! :happy

 

[markb]

Sound advice, Robert.
To make your own lube if you don't feel like paying the absurd prices for this stuff, first sand a pencil lead until you have a pile of graphite powder. Next, soften some petroleum jelly by putting it in a small vessel over boiling water (be careful here). A chapstick works well for this. Mix and allow to cool. A little of this in a 35mm film can lasts ages.

 

[pes_laul]

Good post Robert, I'll have to try that on my Squire.

BTW good usage of the new smilies:happy :agree :yes

 

[Spudman]

I found this the other day too.

 

[wingsdad]

For years I applied a dab of chapstick applied with a pin or toothpick to my nut slots and saddles at restringing, trem or no trem. But I found this stuff at my local shop, and it costs about $1 a year:

GHS GraphitAll

 

[darwin2000]

Sound advice, Robert.
To make your own lube if you don't feel like paying the absurd prices for this stuff, first sand a pencil lead until you have a pile of graphite powder. Next, soften some petroleum jelly by putting it in a small vessel over boiling water (be careful here). A chapstick works well for this. Mix and allow to cool. A little of this in a 35mm film can lasts ages.

Brilliant tip!!!
I love this forum... you guys are the best... I am glad I found this forum!!! I am doing some mods on two of my guitars. I love my Telecaster, I want that bright twangy tone without breaking my bank on buying another guitar... I love that Rickenbacker tone... but after doing some really long and deep research both John and George eventually settled in their final days recording with the Les Pauls and Telecaster respectively.. both of them love the twangy and bright tone of the single coils on the solid body guitars and ease of tuning these guitars were for them.

John wasn't good on basic guitar setups and after getting fed up of the Casinos, he went for a solid body Les Paul with the P90s because of its flexibility with adjusting the intonation, action and playability was much easier on his fingers than his Casinos.

I am going to hunt for some noiseless single coil pickups for my telecaster and do more research on doing some coil tapping on my jazz box's bridge and neck pickups.