Question for those with Fender 12 strings

[Don B]

Have any of you cut new nuts and strung it reverse/Rickenbacker style? Did it sound more like a Ric or did it make any substantial difference at all?

[jakeisjake]

Have any of you cut new nuts and strung it reverse/Rickenbacker style? Did it sound more like a Ric or did it make any substantial difference at all?

i just did it with a danelectro.

it definitely changes the sound...i think for the better. but it doesn't sound like a Ric. i'm looking forward to getting down to GC to play a regular dano 12...because i can't A and B the sound and memory is a strange thing.

but i would say it softens the sound...darkens it a little, so it's not so glassy and brittle.

[SignoftheDragon]

I did this with one of my Surfcaster 12s a couple years back, and was generally happy with the mod. Observations:

1) the sound didn't change all that much- possibly a slight darkening of the tone due to the downstroke hitting the beefy strings first, but nothing that I had to account for when A/B-ing between my conventionally-strung ones.

2) The main difference (advantage) for me came in the play-feel department. I'm a decently aggressive player, so I would often break that octave E string- after the mod I never broke it again. Definitely freed me up on some of the heavies...