what is the boiling technique?

apparently it's supposed to get out all the dirt from the windings (especially round wound strings). But that's all theory. I don't even bother. Besides, guitarists shouldn't complain. Strings are cheap . So just change them.

you mean you dump the string in hot boiling water?!?!?!?!?!?!

well if you play often you change strings like twice a month. . . which amounts to the same for a bassist who change like 3 months once right?

i change once a month. . . so yea. . . depending on how often i play lolz

tsk tsk, who ask you not to trim
be like me been trimming my strings since i started. see? im neat lol

anyway
worse thing happened was when my first time restringing my guitar bout a year ago
lol
i was winding the string without checking the tension, so i went on winding n wondering when to stop.
when i decided to stop n i plucked, the string snapped
and it was a brand new pack o strings!!!!!! such a waste =/
was stuck with no 1st string till i went guitar collection to get a 1st string from another brand
lol

sounds like how hendrix tech stretched the strings , by boiling it lol [read it somewhere nt sure how true is this tho]

This post has been edited by sean392: Apr 21 2007, 07:09 PM

so, many "incidents" during re-string.here's my share of story, my 1E broke and as usual i change it, what happen is, whenever i am close to the correct tune, it broke, since the new string broke,i change again lo...what to do, lucky i have 5 spare 1E strings. but, the mysterious thing is that i broke all 5 spare 1E strings... all of them are kind of branded strings also,from yamaha and gibsons. since i need the string fixed quickly,i go to the nearest book store and buy a couple 1E strings that cost rm0.50 each. and guess what, it didnt break...

that's my encouter during re-string.
my encounter while playing... there was once when i demonstrate some noisy songs to my frens using kapok. guess what... the string didnt burst,but the bridge did.... the guitar bridge brokeout from the body and went swinging around the guitar, lucky didnt hit anyone.

for those who havent share,have fun sharing~

well yes, u dump them in boiling water and cook them for about an hour or so. Or at least thats what i read somewhere. Supposedly they will sound brighter after that. About stretching strings, i don't think 100°C is enough to cause any form of stretching (or recrystallisation). Usually happens at about 300-500°C if i remember correctly. Maybe if you fry your strings in oil (at about 300°C when it's smoking hot) then maybe. But i take no responsibility for your actions . And I don't think your wife/mother/etc. will be very happy if you smoke up the whole kitchen trying to fry your strings.

A bassist who changes his strings once in 3 months is one who is not endorsed and has to pay for the strings himself. Otherwise, the period in which the strings stay bright doesn't really differ from guitar strings. Close to about 2 or 3 weeks. Well, at least that's how long the d'addarios that i use last.

daddarios i used last time, the brightness only lasted a week on my electric
by the 2nd week its all black alr, guess i sweat too much

how do you restring it with the ball end at the tuners ?

where can buy individual strings?

i sweat a lot too when i play but these elixir strings are tough. more than 1 month liao i think still shiny

for me.... i restrung the wrong string
took the B string and strung it to the high E. then had to take it out and string to the B, too short so i thought it wont stay in tune but surprisingly its working like normal

so far..i'm not guitar player but a drummer..but when i'm jamm with my friends..one of my friends tune his guitar until the string terputus and bleed my girlfriends hand..i so angry with him and throw my stick to him..but it's my fault becoz after thinking bout it back,it just unwanted accident..

MORAL VALUE : dont bring ur GF in ur jamming session

wow. . . until whack your bandmate. . . ganas wei. . .

scary to jam with you xD

elixirs coated the sound of mine was really bright till bout the 3rd month
6 month still abit shiny but sound got duller alr,
then i snapped it while playing, i went YARRRR STRUMMMMM
snap the ball end flew pretty far lol

and why was your gf sitting so close to your guitarist? and not beside your drumkit?

hahaha zha dou

most of the guitar store will sell strings saparately and bundled, am i wrong? coz i bought most of the strings from my frens. but i am sure that i did buy individual strings in book store.

guitar collection sells single daddario
bentley sells single ernie balls

not so sure bout the rest =/

True that the strings are thicker ar the ball end coz they're wound up. I always pre-bend them and the wind them in. No probs for me. maybe it's bad for high gauges as it probably wont fit into the tuner properly. I'm using 9's anyway.

About the tension issue, how is it that the tension is uneven? plus its a locking tremolo... so once u locked it in... whatever happens past the locking nut is insignificant. (in fact i've heard of somebody's headstock breaking off past the locking nut and the strings still held their tune)

And another point is... Rich Harris, the supposed Masterpro at Ibanez guitars also strings his guitars this way. So if he does it... hahahah ok nvm...

but anyway, another way to string it in if you are worried about those issues above, is to string it with a longer gap past the ball end wound part before you start winding it in the tuners, so theres no more question about having the thicker end inside the tuners nor the tension thing.

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Added on April 23, 2007, 12:48 amguitars with a floyd rose/double locking tremolo can do it.
the ball end at the tremolo side is useless coz the string is clamped down anyway, not held by the ball end.

This post has been edited by MetalZone: Apr 23 2007, 12:54 AM

hmm i guess if thats the case then its alright?

i forgotten which tech told me that lmao. . .

but anyway i guess its all the same lar xD

well, imho its alright.

Well the funniest thing that happened was when I just started Bass and it happend around 3-4 years back.

So I got my bass + amp + tuner + method book

I thought that its wise to tune my bass first
So I attached the tuner (which picks up vibration) on the headstock
and started tuning to the bass standard tuning which is EADG

But at that time I knew nuts about the tunings and stuff... All I know is EADG (From the TABs In the Method Book)

And guess what? I read the TABs Upside Down..

You guessed it,
I tuned the strings Upside Down (GDAE)

The E and A strings survived the extreme high tension, But when it was till the D string, I remembered that when I achieved a near perfect G (Just a step more towards A) the string just gave way and just sprang out violently

And worst still, I still did not realise my mistake and thought that I tuned it An Octave too high. So I tuned the E A and G string (D String snapped) down an octave sill in the wrong tuning (Still tuned upside down)

But there is no tension. So I concluded that there is a problem with the bloody tuner. So I got my Rant Speech ready and marched back to the music shop the next day.

It all ended when I explained what happened to my current ex-teacher and he just blew out laughing his ass off (Literally)

Me <

And when he explained my mistake

I changed from to

And because I "Brightened" his day, He gave me a new pack of D'addario free of charge and told me not to mess with anything until I know enough.


The moral of this true story is : Only mess with stuff if you know what you are doing

wow
ur teacher is quite nice isnt he ?
haha