![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On one guitar I had for awhile, a few years ago, a thin solid body that had a body shape vaguely reminscent of a Combo 600, the Grover tuners were actually too heavy and the guitar sounded dull. The conventional wisdom is that if the instrument loses sustain too quickly, some damping may be desireable, but at a point, you get diminishing returns and start losing response. Since wood does vary in density, the only way to find out is to incrementally add weight at strategic locations until you notice a difference in tone, sustain, or both, and then make a personal determination as to whether that change is desireable to you or not. The difference may or may not be noticable, and if it's noticable, it may or may not be desireable. In other words, adding the mass may stop or lessen the guitar from vibrating or reacting in the same way, what we call resonance, but will cause it to react, vibrate or resonate in a different way. OK, over on the tuba forums, we talk about the same thing with "heavyweight" mouthpieces, valve caps, braces, etc.Īdded mass damps vibration and changes characteristics. "Hovercraft" is one of the stock words that replaces the offending company, which may have copied the compressor in the RM series guitars without permission, and why it's banned from this forum. It worked about the same, but looked much better & was less awkward. It actually did make a difference, so I went ahead & got the Fat Finger. I put some felt on the clamping points to protect the finish (the Fat Finger does this, too), and tried it out. I looked up the weight of the Fat Finger I was thinking of buying, and then went to the hardware store & bought a C-clamp of the same weight (you can use the nail scale). Here's a trick I tried before buying one. My understanding-though I may be wrong-is that the added mass changes the resonant properties of the neck, and it matters how much mass is added (they have different sizes for bass & guitar) and what it is added. If you use one, you'll need to experiment with attaching it to different points of the headstock to see what works best for the particular issue you're trying to address. It rarely eliminates them altogether, but it can diminish them and/or shift them to another part of the neck where they're less annoying. It doesn't address sustain as a whole, but it does have an effect on dead spots. I've used the Fat Finger before, on a F****r bass. ![]()
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