Tonerite overkill?

[6L6]

My former Tonerite had no effect on the sound of my guitars, so I sold it on.

[kevinplarson]

TR definitely recommends longer treatments now - like 2 weeks on high, another 2 on medium.

[rgregg48]

Originally Posted by kevinplarson

TR definitely recommends longer treatments now - like 2 weeks on high, another 2 on medium.

I'm sorry, who is TR?

[davenumber2]

Originally Posted by rgregg48

I'm sorry, who is TR?

Tonerite...

[Wild Bill Jones]

I find Tonerite works on my new guitars, not older ones or ones with torrified tops. I had one new guitar the opened up a bit in 2 weeks and a bit more over a month. It still remained pretty tight so I left the Tonerite on when not playing it. This turned out to be about a year. The wasn’t much difference after that first month though. That guitar is a custom luthier one off. Right nowit’s getting it’s braces shaved a bit. In my experience I haven’t found using the Tonerite for a long time to be damaging in anyway. Of course YNNV and all other disclaimers apply. That’s my story and I’ve sticking to it:-)

[Mike McLenison]

Frankly, as much as I'd like to try it, I'm afraid of rattling some bracing loose.

[Goodallboy]

Originally Posted by davidd

A fool and his money...

Besides being just another opinion, this is quite harsh and unsubstantiated.

No less than Joe Glaser relates that a ToneRite,"will change the tone of your guitar." Since this is a world class luthier and guitar expert, I'll tend to believe him over someone who's not.

However, the rest of his statement goes like this, "but you may not like it."

I once saw one being used at Carter Vintage in Nashville. Any one who would call him a fool, probably never met Walter.

[merlin666]

Originally Posted by Wild Bill Jones

I find Tonerite works on my new guitars, not older ones or ones with torrified tops. I had one new guitar the opened up a bit in 2 weeks and a bit more over a month. It still remained pretty tight so I left the Tonerite on when not playing it. This turned out to be about a year. The wasn’t much difference after that first month though. That guitar is a custom luthier one off. Right nowit’s getting it’s braces shaved a bit. In my experience I haven’t found using the Tonerite for a long time to be damaging in anyway. Of course YNNV and all other disclaimers apply. That’s my story and I’ve sticking to it:-)

I think that with torrified tops you will need to tonerite it for substantially longer than regular tops to resolve the baked in stiffness. Three months may be a more reasonable time.

[Tony Burns]

Their a waste of money -play your %^&* guitar more -
I actually own one - I used it a couple of times - sits in its box -
My thoughts are is that people what a guitar thats been played in ,
but they dont want to play it in -

[Wild Bill Jones]

Originally Posted by merlin666

I think that with torrified tops you will need to tonerite it for substantially longer than regular tops to resolve the baked in stiffness. Three months may be a more reasonable time.

Well, since I tried it for a year on one guitar, why that on for awhile on one of my torrified guitars. One issue could be that I have played my two torrified guitars quite a lot over the past two years and the Tonerite may no longer have any effect. My experience has been the tonerite works on new guitars and not at all on older ones.

[samcatluth]

Guitars wake up with playing and fall asleep if not played over long periods. With hard playing they wake up again. You can do the same as tonerite with a few hours of loud playing.