gball
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Never happened to me in 30+ years of stringing like this, no matter how crazy I get/how big the bend. Done right, it just doesn't budge.
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Never happened to me in 30+ years of stringing like this, no matter how crazy I get/how big the bend. Done right, it just doesn't budge.
Well, you have to keep in mind that i was playing all day in the studio for a living, plus gigging 5 nights a week, and this went on for several years, and that's more stress and playing time on a set of strings than most people will inflict in a lifetime.
So, you actually used the self-lock stringing method and broke strings at the point where the string locks on itself? How often did this happen?
gball
Ambassador of Boogie
Well, When I started doing this I was gigging about 5 nights a week and for a period of time in the mid '90s about the same. I'm pretty aggressive when I play and do a lot of bending and I am telling you its rock solid. Give it a try.
BTW, when I started doing this is about when I stopped ever breaking strings. I've had I think one string break while playing in the last 20 years.
Very regularly on the plain strings. I was doing the "half hitch" back in the 1990's, before i knew anything about nut profiling.
I went through a period, a couple of years ago, where i would cause the ball end of the string to "choke up" during really extreme bends. This happened with Ernie Ball, NYXL's and Dean Markleys. I stared soldering the ball end wrap for a while, but when i discovered Paradigms, i never had that problem ever again.
Odd. It's never been a problem for me. Was the string breaking right where it passes over and locks on itself?
Yes. Exactly.
Dude, you must be particularly abusive. It still strikes me as odd.
I literally have never had a string break at the tuning post, with or without using the string-lock method, no matter how hard I bend a string.
And many at the ball end too.
Wow. That just amazes me.
Remember, he chews up picks and frets, just saying.
How often do you guys change strings? I don’t put more than three full gigs, plus associated practice, on a set of strings.
Maybe that’s one reason I don’t have string breakage issues.
Speaking of which, I just got a fresh delivery of strings, so it’s time for a little maintenance work!
Maybe that’s one reason I don’t have string breakage issues.
Speaking of which, I just got a fresh delivery of strings, so it’s time for a little maintenance work!
I’ll tell you another pet peeve about D’Addario, and I realize this is a really minor and petty complaint, but those colored ball ends!
I mean, if they’re hidden inside the stop tail of a Les Paul, they’re not so bad. But, if you have any type of of tailpiece where the ends are exposed, like on a Bigsby or a Maestro, it looks kinda odd. It almost makes the guitar look toy-ish…like Fisher-Price meets Gibson!
gball
Ambassador of Boogie
I'll put about 6 hours of playing on a set before changing. Agter that they have flatspots and the wound strings start sounding dead.
Zoom in on this image of my 2019 Schecter Hellraiser C1FR after 3 months of session work and gigging nightly....
The frets are worn flat on top and there are piles of metal dust alongside each fret.
The frets are worn flat on top and there are piles of metal dust alongside each fret.
I don’t gig. I’m a bedroom player. When I did play my acoustic at church, they did get changed more often…..
But I overall don’t change strings as often as I probably should. I’m a bad boy. Literally, they get changed when they go thud rather than twang. Honestly don’t remember last time I changed any of them regardless electric or the acoustic.