Anyone Tried the String Butler?

we are supposed to TUNE THEM --- seriously--tuning-- soldering-- replacing necks --pickups--knobs-- tuners--- I mean WTF !?!?!why doesnt Gibson sell "kits" for 100.00 and let us just make the damn things right from the start?!?!?!?!
 
eSGEe said:
No-- Gene and Paul EMPLOYED a guitar tech --- Ace was chassing ass and slamming Jack Daniels -------you really need to read up on your KISStory ;)
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I presume you said that in jest because a simple Google search will find you a list of his guitar techs.
 
employed by Gene and Paul............................who ARE "KISS" (the business) and Peter and Ace -- and the myriad of others who have sat in are just "hired" --- but o.k. if you say so.

Im sure he may have employed some on his own -- or the promoter or record company did for his solo career-----

Ace is a HERO of mine and excellent guitar player but a train wreck off the stage.
 
I DIDNT SAY HE DIDNT HAVE GUITAR TECHS----I SAID HE PERSONALLY DIDNT PAY THEM --- read the previous post for "information:"
 
In his own words from a 2016 interview Paul Daniel Frehley (you know him as ACE)
"I think the fact I don’t drink any more helps a lot. After a while, in your 50s and 60s, drinking really ages you. I miss the insanity of it, and some of the crazy situations, but I still have fun today, it’s just controlled mayhem. The more I abused alcohol and drugs, the more blackouts I had. So those areas of my book were hardest to write. Probably the biggest black spot was after I left Kiss, so my friends, family and the people who were around at the time had to jog my memory. "

does this SOUND like somebody that was "running the business" side of things?

Gene and Paul neither one drink------at ALL--- period---
so who DO YOU as an EDUCATED MAN think was HIRING techs and paying them Grump? ---do you think back in the HAYDAY OF KISS it was Ace?
really?

and further in the same interview
"Gene has the best business brain, absolutely. I don’t consider myself a very good businessman. When I start doing numbers I get a headache. I’m ruled by the creative side of my brain, not the analytical side. "

so.........uhm...........................

?
 
I think the String Butler seems like a viable (albeit fairly pricey) fix for a guitar that has persistent tuning problems at the nut & headstock.

Do I think tuning problems are inherent & inevitable with that kind of headstock? No.
All of my angled headstocks have well-cut nuts and stay in tune just fine, even the ones with a Vibrola, Bigsby, or Les Trem.

It's a solution for a problem I don't have. But I don't rule out the possibility of guitars that a good nut by itself can't fix.
 
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