{"id":420,"date":"2006-05-04T07:22:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T23:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/05\/2006_05_04_0722.php"},"modified":"2006-05-04T07:22:03","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T23:22:03","slug":"t5-last-minute-adjustments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/04\/t5-last-minute-adjustments","title":{"rendered":"T5 last minute adjustments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[tuners]\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/226\/450717259_7c6d4a2ed0_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/226\/450717259_cf0fa6fae0_s.jpg\" alt=\"Auto-trim Locking Tuners\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in previous posts, I got a couple of extra guitar parts along with my T5, namely some straplocks and locking tuners.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Mom and I went out to get my temporary license (since my license was stolen along with the money in the airport last month). I figured it was the perfect time to send the guitar to a luthier as well. Arjay had given me the contact info of this guy who does all the guitars of all respected musicians in the Philippine music industry (as soon as I saw Cesar Aguas&#8217; name there, that pretty much convinced me)<\/p>\n<p>The day went as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Went to guitar shop, drop off guitar.<\/li>\n<li>Had lunch at Cafe Juanita (Kapitolyo).<\/li>\n<li>Went to LTO and fixed license.<\/li>\n<li>Went back for guitar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!--more-->\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[tuners]\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/178\/450705340_960a64d205_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/178\/450705340_fb47112212_s.jpg\" alt=\"Tuners installed\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyways, everything went well. I requested that the guy not restring the guitar so I can try stringing it with the locking tuners myself. 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This is why newly stringed guitars easily go off tune, but are fine over time.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_420_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_420_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script>, and the added bonus of <strong>not<\/strong> having that excess string protruding.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[tuners]\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/177\/450717315_24b76030d1_o.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/177\/450717315_82ca180ec9_s.jpg\" alt=\"Tuners front\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last picture shows how the tuners look like in action. Looks extra sexy with black posts. As I mentioned in the picture page, it made the guitar look more &#8220;vintage.&#8221; And of course cleaning the headstock now is a joy as I don&#8217;t have to worry about strings piercing my skin or getting caught on the cloth.<\/p><div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_420_1();\">Notes<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_420_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_420_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_420_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">Notes<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_420_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_420_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_420_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8673;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\">Usually because of the multiple string winding, it will take some time for the strings to &#8220;settle&#8221; into their respective tensions around the posts. 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I figured it was the perfect &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/04\/t5-last-minute-adjustments\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;T5 last minute adjustments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[1143,1158],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-music","tag-t5","tag-taylor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}