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Topic: ABR-1,tune o matic,grover & Nashville ???

hi everyone !!

My LP Epi need à real lift now, i'm tireed to adjust My Guitar almost all The time !!
I realy don't now wich i Will need & anybody kan help ??

Soon i Will order My JB pickups but i need aswell à good stringar
,

Any Advice ???

Thanks , loïc

Epiphone Les Paul 1989 with bridge & neck WCR DarkBurst set pickups , Burny Les Paul Custom från 80 ' late with bb2 & bb3 ,Fender Princeton Reverb 68 , Joe Bonamassa Face Fuzz Dunlop ,MXR Micro Flanger , Ts 808 tubescreamer reissue , Boss DD 3 made in Taiwan ,  MXR Dyna Comp , MXR Distortion +,MXR Joe Bonamassa Fet Driver
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Re: ABR-1,tune o matic,grover & Nashville ???

Can't go wrong with Tone Pro's.  I would also suggest replacing the nut with either a bone nut or Tusq.  I love the Tusq Brand they make slotted nuts for Epiphones.  All you got to do with them is sand it down on the bottom of it to the right hight and then sand the edges down to fit the width of the neck.  You should have a solid guitar after that.

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Re: ABR-1,tune o matic,grover & Nashville ???

AD3THREE wrote:

Can't go wrong with Tone Pro's.  I would also suggest replacing the nut with either a bone nut or Tusq.  I love the Tusq Brand they make slotted nuts for Epiphones.  All you got to do with them is sand it down on the bottom of it to the right hight and then sand the edges down to fit the width of the neck.  You should have a solid guitar after that.

Thanks a lot for your reply,i Will well look on those Tusq Brand ,

Bye / loïc

Epiphone Les Paul 1989 with bridge & neck WCR DarkBurst set pickups , Burny Les Paul Custom från 80 ' late with bb2 & bb3 ,Fender Princeton Reverb 68 , Joe Bonamassa Face Fuzz Dunlop ,MXR Micro Flanger , Ts 808 tubescreamer reissue , Boss DD 3 made in Taiwan ,  MXR Dyna Comp , MXR Distortion +,MXR Joe Bonamassa Fet Driver
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Re: ABR-1,tune o matic,grover & Nashville ???

I had quite a few tuning problems with my epi les paul. I changed the nut to as tusq nut and changed the tuners to locking ones and found that tuning stability really improved.
Joe's tip of using nut sauce on your nut to keep everything flowing nicely is alot better than using pencil graphite to lubricate the nut. Your guitar might just need a good tech to look at it especially if you are having lots of intonation problems

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Re: ABR-1,tune o matic,grover & Nashville ???

Les Pauls can have weird intonation issues. I have yet to purchase one, but my next nut might be one of these....

http://www.earvana.com/

I try keeping stock nuts on Gibsons and use NutSauce whenever I can remember to do so.

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Re: ABR-1,tune o matic,grover & Nashville ???

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

Les Pauls can have weird intonation issues. I have yet to purchase one, but my next nut might be one of these....

http://www.earvana.com/

I try keeping stock nuts on Gibsons and use NutSauce whenever I can remember to do so.

I had a friend with an earvana nut. He installed it himself after watching an instruction video on youtube I tried a guitar with buzz feiten as well. That sounded pretty good. On my Gibson les paul I had changed out the pickups a few times and have replaced all the electrics but I'm scared of replacing the nut

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Re: ABR-1,tune o matic,grover & Nashville ???

I have also heard from some people that ABR-1 Bridges suck and are buzzy... and prefer Nashville bridges. I have a Nashville on my '78 LP Custom and '79 Explorer, and a ABR-1 on my '72 LP Custom, and I can tell no difference. Perhaps the ABR is a little brighter, but there's too many other contributing factors that could make the guitar brighter in general... hmm

From ABR-1 to Nashville

The redesign was meant to answer a number of concerns that cropped up with the ABR-1. For some they are quirks, for others they are a reason not to have them: rattling saddles (so they used a retaining clip on each saddle), loose retaining wire (eliminated on the Nashville), not enough travel for a full range of intonation adjustment (so the new one is wider), and thin threaded posts that bend so the entire bridge leans (so the new one has larger posts with integral thumbwheels), and the wood top getting stripped out from the metal threads being put directly into it (hence the threaded inserts). Of course no good deed goes unpunished so the corksniffers want the original design with all its warts.

The Nashville bridge that Gibson currently uses is made by Ping (China?). It doesn't sound or sustain well. The original Nashville that Gibson used to use is the Schaller, it is a better bridge (and more expensive). If you want a good ABR-1 type bridge that fits on Nashville posts, get the Allparts "Old Style Tunematic" in chrome, gold, or nickel from an Allparts dealer. This is a well made bridge (Japan) and sounds great. You can also get the Faber ABR, which fits on Nashville posts, but it costs twice as much as the Allparts one, has prenotched saddles (not good IMO), and the bridge frame is also made in Japan like the Allparts. I like the Allparts bridge, I use it on any guitars I get that have Nashvilles on them.

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/archiv … 18883.html

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Re: ABR-1,tune o matic,grover & Nashville ???

There is nothing to fear with these presloted nuts.  They should fit in without any mods to either part the guitar or the nut.  You might have to sand the edges but do that off the guitar.  take your time and you should have a great playing and sounding guitar when your done.

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