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Don't you just hate it when this happens..,


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Luckily on this occasion, the string has just made it to the nut once I tuned up, but I have had a few occasions whereby I have replaced my strings and the taper at the top hasn't made it to the nut. I get this problem with my 35" scale Lakland from time to time. But, with my regular 34" scale Warwick...surely not?

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Oh God yes that's uber annoying! I discovered this when going through the body of my Lakland with normal long scale Elixr strings. However on a normal 34" scale it seems a bit odd. Is the tailpiece of your Warwick set back very far? I know some of the are.

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The taper not making it to the nut shouldn't affect your tone negatively. In fact there are string manufacturers that specialise in strings that taper off between bridge and nut. It facilitates a super low action setup!
So it's a feature, not a flaw.

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When I got my rickenfaker it was like that, except not quite like that, the step occurred half way to the first fret. So I got some replacement strings on an expensive replacement string month, when I got some DR Chromes for the fretless and some new ernie balls for the ibanez, I got some generic strings for the rock and the notch came just after the nut. Don't know why it is so short.

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