3-4 days old strings rust???
your fingers must be shredding and running up-down the neck like a marathon athlete to be sweating like that j/k ...

I do not seem to be having much problem with rusty strings (I use D'Addario & Ernie Ball and they last several months and I do not use fast-frets etc). Maybe I just dont have the sweaty fingers problem. However, I play my guitar under a fan. So maybe the air blowing from the fan dries my sweat.

This post has been edited by Banzai_san: Dec 6 2007, 12:57 PM

Do you guys, after playing with your guitar, immediately store them in a bag? Just curious how the strings get rusty so quicky. Maybe if store in a bag, due to the humidity and sweat from the fingers, make the strings rust so fast.

I do not store my guitar in a bag. I dont really know if this has any relation to rusty strings, but just trying to figure out what may be the culprit.

Might be... dont really know. Just curious how strings rust so quickly. Mine last several months (my last D'Addario last iirc for more than 3 months) with no fast fret nor wiping dry the strings with cloth.

Or maybe some people sweats are more 'acidic'?
Or maybe some play their guitars whilst hands/fingers are polluted with food's particles, etc.
hehe.. adding more to the sweaty finger theory.