need advice...!
Hello fellow guitarists and people with far better guitar knowledge than me, which is most people….
Ive got 2 guitars, both with tuning problems recently.
As is the case for many epiphone owners, I did a mini custom job on my sheraton and sg.
I switched the tailpiece and the bridges around - nickel into my sherry, gold onto my sg - and installed 2 nickel pick ups to my sheraton, so I added nickel bridge etc. ( pick ups were Seymour duncan '59 and a gibson '57) and 2 gibson p94's into my sg.
Then I put locking tuners on both, grover ones. Black ones and chrome ones if you're interested….!
Now the tuning on my SG is shocking, its all over the place. Plus my sherry isnt brilliant, the G string in particular is terrible.
The locking tuners don’t seem to be doing a thing, although changing strings is easy.
I thought I may have strung them up wrong, but a guitar tech installed the strings on my sherry, and I did research before doing the ones on my sg. Im sure they're on properly.
Is this a bridge/tailpiece issue, should I switch back? (I don’t want to, I like the nickel look)
There has to be a better reason for out of tune strings rather than, 'they need stretching when you put them on'
Any help from your amazing guitar knowledge would be very helpful! Im all for buying a new bridge or whatever you recommend…
And any 'buy a gibson' comments will be ignored, haha. My little sg was my first electric, its my baby! And sounds shit hot with the single coil pick ups, more like a telecaster at times.