Duck Engr wrote:I notice it makes a difference more with my mondo and singleton than j frames. my singleton is very sensitive to it. Took me several off-seasons of piddling with it to figure out the best way for me to operate it at least.
Guess we, and they, are all a bit different. After losing the first, I'm on my second LA Cut Singleton and was tickled to find its toneboard could be tuned to run just as I had the first. Which isn't always the case, even with CNC. Its low end is versatile enough that I mess with a lot of spitty feeds with drag and bouncing "refuge feed" type notes, and when full of spit, I can lock it up on some other low stuff, most notably drake dweebs.
Doesn't stick on anything important to me and takes but a common feed note or two to break it free, so it's not a big thing, but I did experiment with toneboard orientation in that regard. Up, down or sideways made no difference. Just a quirk I don't mind living with.
(Had an "old style," half-scroll Daisy Cutter that would air lock on the quiet single clucks and chucks I like to do between more meaningful things when birds are working close. So I sent it back to Jim to see if he could fix that, and he was soon on the phone saying he'd sanded a bit but would rather send me a different insert than take a chance on screwing that one's otherwise special tone up. "No, thanks. I'll live with it.")
Re: the Mondo, after trimming Jim's tuning down to something better handled by my light ass, it was my pick of three cutdowns I acquired at the same time, and I kept it for three seasons without ever noticing a toneboard orientation issue. (Never got it to run as loose as the Singleton, either.)
Maybe why they put so many different tunes in a juke box...