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Wed Jan 04, 2017 11:04 am
cbm wrote:I have a Comanche that has the Shaller locking tuners on it. It came with a string tree on the B & high E string, but it was binding enough to cause tuning problems, so I removed it. Removing it doesn't seem to have cause any issues, but I was wondering what the conventional wisdom was here. I guess if I'm not noticing any problem, I should be happy, but maybe there's some issue I'm not seeing.
FWIW, my Legacy Special came from the factory with Sperzel lockers, and no string tree, but it looks like the Sperzels might have a slightly greater break angle. The Shaller lockers look to have very moderate staggering on the top three tuners.
Wed Jan 04, 2017 12:25 pm
Hi Craig,
We put a tree on all our instruments regardless of key type. With the staggered tuners it is often not necessary to have it there.
But the increased break angle from the tree can help sometimes with over-ringing at the nut. If anything it just makes the nut a little more forgiving.
If they aren’t experiencing over-ringing then there is no other reason the tree would need to be there.
Hope that helps,
Spencer
Wed Jan 04, 2017 1:17 pm