how to deaden the strings quickly?

[diminix]

It's interesting because on my archtops I like a dull, muted sound [...]

Anyone have any experience accomplishing this?

Kind of... I put i thick piece of leather under the strings, right at the nut. Cut it in a pointed way, so that the muting effect on the lighter string is less strong. Maybe you could try that...

Can't find the pic on my HDD. I've posted it before on another thread:

Arpeggios - Open string resonance (post #3).

Robert

[rio]

I love the sound of dead flats on my archtop - 8-9 months of playing they started sounding great - but tuning, as in intonation starts to get tricky.
I got a Tonerite
with my custom made archtop a few years ago - so now its working on those strings when Im not playing it.
I'll let you know if the thing actually works

Wow, that looks quite interesting. I'd love to hear what you think of it after you try it out for a while.


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[whiskey02]

fwiw, you can simply set your guitar on a stand with the top facing your stereo speakers close as you can get without strings touching, leave your stereo playing while not home. At the very least, it can't hurt your guitar.
I did read a review on the tonerite and they did mention that new strings were dead in a pretty short while.

[Robertkoa]

1. Eat greasy slice of pizza
2. Play guitar
3. Repeat


John
John

Will this work with non greasy Veggie Pizza ?
Eat more slices ?

Actually I have a feeling that merely putting ? non coated only ] Strings into a toaster oven really hot for a few minutes might be an easy way to accomplish this.

I will try this with some Pure Nickel Strings 11s - I am curious if this will work on the Plain Strings ( steel )( as well.

I normally use Elixirs ( for the warmth not the coating )..what is readily available (.Pure Nickel )without the ' coating ' ?

I mean at GC or Sam Ash ?

[gator811]

Yes left the Tonerite on for a few days while things were busy at work - and works great - just enough life left in the flatwounds.

[whiskey02]

"Eat more slices"

I tell my pizza guy to cut it into six slices cause I can't eat eight.

[abelljo]

You can see it in his playing!

[abelljo]

Do you use metal or nylon saddles. It makes a difference

[whiskey02]

Do you use metal or nylon saddles. It makes a difference

Pleas extrapolate on the nylon saddles. I had a 335 with them for a while but it was forty years ago and I didn't even own an amp at the time.