use 10 buck olympia strings la for the boiling.

As for boiling, it is just to get rid of all the oil and dirt that collects in between the windings (expecially round wounds). Thats what i read anyway. Supposedly, the grime adds to string weight altering the oscillation and freq properties severely.

Also, nothing happens to metal at 100 °C anyway, so that is the only explanation so far that is logical. In order to change the properties of deformed metal (strings are stretched pass the elasticity limit), you have to heat it to about 300-400 °C and then recrystalisation takes place... i think....Which is not necessarily a good thing. Other than that, you can try heating up the strings to 900°C and shock cooling it in oil. It should make steel strings harder, but i dunnoe how that affects the sound.

see I have been studying hard for my exams...

my professor better let me pass....

hahaha