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"sloppy grommet syndrome"?.....over use/abuse ?...wow.
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I'd respond but cannot see the keyboard very well through the tears of laughter! You guys are great!
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Ugh...you guys are unstoppable, I am trying my hardest to be good here, but y'all are not making it easy.
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I hope your not suggesting someone is deliberately making it hard?
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I just got off the phone with my local luthier. He recommended rubbing the endpin real fast, and the moisture in your hand and the friction will make the endpin swell slightly, and will create a much tighter fit in the hole. He was a little aghast that someone would actually stick a soldering iron in their end pin hole. He said if you stick a soldering iron in your end pin hole as recommened, it will swell up so fast you couldn't drive an end pin in that hole with a hammer.
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Has somebody already mentioned ginger root as a possible solution for the loose end pin problem ? My luthier turn me onto this a number of years ago and I swear by it. My only caution is to use it sparingly, trust me on this.
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I once chatted with Mike Ness (lead guitarist of Social Distortion) about this exact issue. He had originally followed the advice of his brother, Paul, and gone with the gluing technique. Whilst ok, he too eventually went with the ginger root technique recommend by Frayne48 after his other brother, Andrew, insisted he give it a try. He now swears by it.
On an interesting side note, Ness was the original owner of the one-bedroom apartment described in The Adolescents song "Kids of the Black Hole". The punk house was located in Fullerton, California in the 1980s.
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Just got off the phone with my luthier and he told me the correct term used in the trade for proper seating of the end pin using the ginger root method is actually called figging, supposedly named after some early 16th century practice luthiers developed in France.
Actually kind of surprised no one else is aware of this fix for loose end pins, also works when changing strings with those little string push-in end pins, or whatever they are called these days. Last edited by frayne48; 02-25-2010 at 03:02 PM. |
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If I were going to try and shrink the hole using the soldering gun method, I'd do it this way rather than the advice given earlier. Insert the damp rag wrapped around a cold soldering gun into the hole. **Note "cold" soldering gun. Plug in the gun to an electrical outlet and when the rag starts sizzling, pull the hot tip out immediately or risk damaging the hole.
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I just don't like the idea of using a tool that could seriously burn my jackhole. There's got to be a more natural method that's less hazardous. I'm allergic to ginger root, thought. Does powdered ginger have the same effect if you mix it with water?
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