bent the hell out of the strings and I DIDN'T HAVE TO RETUNE!!! There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it's shaped like a 1/2in block of wood!!!
thanks to all - now I just have to work on that nasty twang in the G (I hear it's common with the G on strats... time to pay someone for a setup!=) )
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson