Sunday, February 28, 2010

Is that the right way?

 
The lad you see here is Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad). He recently did an endorsement with Peavey guitars, a series of his signature models were released but not the one you see here. So what's with this one? I don't know if Mr. Townsend wrapped his strings round the machine heads as such intentionally but it's the wrong way round, take a closer look at the arrowed section (click photo if you need clarifications); not one but all of the strings were wound as such.

3 comments:

Ijau D. Koceng said...

u hv keen eyes there... like old folks saying "hanya jauhari yg mengenal manikam", good one

thraxil said...

In some of his youtube videos, he's got them wrapped the same way. I'm thinking it's intentional, though I can't imagine the point.

subversion.sg said...

one of the reasons would be to prevent slippage, angled wrap-around like that provides a 'locking' grip as opposed to the conventional way.