Guitar Mod - Swapping a real string for the strumbar

**discgolferpro** · Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 861 Location: Kansas City, Mo

Anyone want to give this one a try? I saw a post about it on the official forums and whipped this out. Let me know how it works out for you if you try it...

If I was to try this mod I would start off with one of these: Normally-Open Leaf Switch. They are easy to find, robust and sensitive.

The space between the leaf itself and the body of the switch can be "filled" with a compressible material to control how hard you have to press the leaf before the switch closes. Paper, rubber, cloth... it will be trial and error...

Then find a heavy gauge guitar (or even base) string and anchor it something like this (I just whipped it up in Paint, no complaints!):

I think it will be satisfactory as long as it isn't delicate. Everything must be "solid" or it won't be worth playing.
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**Squirrel** · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject:

This seems pretty awesome, looks like it could work. The problem would be how would the plastic hold to constant tension of the string?
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**SThorpe** · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 2500

That does look cool, if I was going to do that I'd have a string going over the frets, so it'd feel ever more like a guitar

EDIT: yay! guitar legend!

**Huwonk** · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2432 Location: Marysville, Ohio

It'd be awesome until the first time you're jamming on a fast song and the string breaks.

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**Squirrel** · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

**Dandaman** · Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 237 Location: Australia

**Shadow** · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 329

**b3nz0r** · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 972 Location: Harker Heights, TX

I've had mine nearly a year and it's not broken. It's worn in, that's for sure, but not broken.
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**Squirrel** · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:40 pm Post subject:

Had mine for a long time, still working, like 6 months or so.

Then again I keep care of it, when the buttons got mashed in, i did a fret mod, when the connections started getting worn, tore it apart and used pencil lead and the connections were just as good as before.

With good maintenance, anything can last a long ass time. Even your atari 2600 ;)
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**Shadow** · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 329

**Ensiferous3** · Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1629

Nah, we are just hard rockers! (Joke my friend made up when I told him he was hitting the strum bar like he was trying to destroy it).
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**MCR517** · Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: New Jersey, USA

We feel the music when we play this game, so we do everything harder...

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**LongSockSilver** · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 1204

...Are we not supposed to hit it with a sledgehammer? Ah, no wonder I haven't been able to hit that YRGM solo...

Anyway, replacing the strum bar with a string seems a bit pointless, but hardcore nonetheless. Nice thinking

-LSS

**MCR517** · Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 23 Location: New Jersey, USA

**warlock7735** · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:13 am Post subject: