[Chet Johnson]

I played the gold hybrid bender guitar for sevral months at home before trying it on a gig.
Bill's Lanyard saddle bender has no assist spring, only string tension for the return. In addition to the touchiness that this lack of tension caused, the G bender would often stick sharp, not fully returning to pitch.
I lubed and took it apart several times trying to find the intermittent problem.

Bill Bores returned only ONE of many emails with a possible solution to try myself, and NONE of many phone calls.

I fooled with it and had it to where I believed it to be dependale, taking the guitar to a gig as my only guitar. The G beder stuck AGAIN. hat song was a trainwreck, and I had to relase the string tension and adjusmet for the stop all over again just to get it useable for the next song. A total pain, and embarrasment.

I emailed Bill Bores again, no response.

The positive note, is that Charlie Mcvay is curently modding the bender with a tension adjustable return spring and fixing the problem for me. It sould be done by monday he said, and I'll post pics when I have it back. I can't wait! thanks again Charlie!