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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on December 4, 2012 at 12:03am

Sounds like there`s not enough down pressure on the strings at the bridge. One remedy...remove the strings....take small eye screws and stick them between the bridge and tailpiece.....restring the build fishing the strings through the eye screws then to the tailpiece.  That might work to give more down pressure to the bridge. Even a string tree between bridge and tailpiece would work too.

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Permalink Reply by Justice Crafted on December 4, 2012 at 12:56am

▼ Thanks Randy, I was also thinking I might lose the angle metal and...

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on December 4, 2012 at 1:51am

Can you post a pic of the box, sometimes questions are answered better when we can see the problem.

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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on December 4, 2012 at 7:58am

It sounds like you don't have enough of a string angle. Or there is not enough string tension due to tuning too low or the wrong gauge of strings.

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