Hi, Cliff. Larry Miller is still building. I'd call him and see about getting it to him to take a look at, his number is 337-224-1225. If it's older, it could probably use a little tune up, anyway.
Don't force the stop. If you force it and the slide itself if locked up, it could break the slide. Not a good thing. If you just got it, sometimes climate changes can cause it. Try putting in a dry temp controlled environment for a few day and see if that doesn't free it up. Wooden moving parts and tight tolerances leave room for climate to cause problems.
Thanks Bryan, I didn't know Larry was still building, I really appreciate it.
And I will definitely not force it, it's such a nice instrument, I'd hate to break it. I have it in a dry heated room, but it doesn't want to move at all.
It's basically the way it arrived from the seller. Thanks, it's a good suggestion to have it tuned up. Thank you for your help.
Thanks Nick,
I appreciate the help. I'll reach out to Larry Miller. In the meantime it still works fine but could probably use a tuning and overall maintenance. Thank you for the suggestions and also I really am enjoying working with your DVD.
Thanks TJ, it's certainly not affecting the way it plays and it has a nice loud wonderful tone. Just bugs me that nobody mentioned it when they sold it. At some point I'll get it serviced. Thanks for the help.
There's a chance they didn't know, not many players mess with the stops, and there's rarely any reason to, especially that one. I would have tried to close it for shipping, though.