Surprisingly my best tuning is with vintage 2 point trems. I never use them free floating as imo thats meant for floyds. Use 4 springs in back and make sure to wrap string at least 4 times around tuning peg. I can abuse the **** out of it and stay in tune.

It stays in tune better though than most gibson style guitars that dont even have a tremelo.

GOD BLESS LEO FENDER

That really, really shouldn't work. Especially with that many wraps around the post. The reason locking tuners exist is to reduce the number of wraps. The rationale is less wraps = less string stretching, deforming, and getting caught on itself.

The rest makes sense though, and iirc its exactly what Stevie Ray Vaughan used to do.

Well im putting it through the peg THEN wrapping it 4 times. Perhaps youre thinking wrapping then through? When I did it the other way I had mad tuning problems.

...the best way I can think of to describe this is this.

Consider that in the tuning peg, before you even make a wind, there is a "nut" side to the hole, and a "loose" side to the hole.

If, after you wrap the string, your 4 wraps are on the "nut" side of the hole, then thats ****ing crazy.

If you mean something else, you're still crazy because I have no idea how you're even keeping your strings on the guitar.

I dont know how to explain it I guess. Whatever I do works so god damned well and ill never do it differently. Perhaps I am defying physics or just an idiot. All I know is every time since I started stringing fender guitars like that my tuning worries even with a plastic piece of **** nut have gone away.

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Here's yet another angle to consider. They've been making and selling Strats for well over 50 years now. They're not going to stop. Hollow-bodies have been around forever too, but there aren't many specific models that have stuck around that long, and those that have are NOT cheap. If there's a particular modern hollow-body that's caught your fancy, I'd say now is the time to get it.

Also, the issue with the feedback is when you -stop- playing. Like when you're just holding that last chord and letting it ring out, sometimes having that tear up into a swell of feedback is a great cap to a tune, sometimes it destroys the delicate balance of the intricate love song you just performed. The hollow-body simply has more space to allow for the sound waves to resonate and create a feedback loop. It was a major complaint from the guys in Oasis back in the day.

@WWWP - Good luck with the rental. Keep us posted on the new guitar when you finalize your decision. :thumb:

Dean MLX?
 

I want to win the guitar on the GuitarSniper web site.

It's a Dean. But this one looks pretty nice.

haha thats the shadiest looking site ever. If a site needs someone to spam it on message boards it has to suck.

Okay, I'll just use this thread. Anyone know if I can get a decent classical guitar for under $200? Willing to stretch my budget to $250, but that's it due to sales tax on top of it. I'm taking a summer class at school called "Introduction to Classical Guitar Technique" that starts in July, and I need a nylon string classical guitar for the course. I have 7 other guitars at my house but they are all steel string (and 5 are electric).

So yeah, I just need something basic. Nylon string classical guitar, good quality, preferably under $200. I've looked on the Internet and in stores, but all the guitars that are in my price range are the kid size ones (like 1/2 or 3/4 size), and I need a full size guitar.

Thanks.

Edit: I'm also okay with ordering from the US as long as it comes within my budget.