| Does the breaking 011 scare the bejeebers out of you? |
| Yes |
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43% |
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| No |
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22% |
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| Sometimes |
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28% |
[ 21 ] |
| I'm a mutant |
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5% |
[ 4 ] |
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Topic: Does the breaking 011 scare the bejeebers out of you? |
George Seymour
From:
Notown, Vermont, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 4:17 am |
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Years ago..tight stage, 11 let go and struck our bass player in the right forearm...drew a bead of blood...
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 5:00 am
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We recently had a thread about what is in your tool kit. Sounds like band-aids (pun not intended, but just realized  ) and gauze might be a good idea as well! |
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George Seymour
From:
Notown, Vermont, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 5:26 am
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About the time same club same stage a local cop ask a drunk patron to leave, and he wouldn't , pepper sprayed him in the club, cleared the place, done two hours early as I remember...those were the days...
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Old Gibson Mastertones |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 5:37 am
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OMG, just reading the posts from all you big, tough, scary men here reveals what a tough, fearless group is on this forum!
Turn lemons into lemonade. When the string draws blood, just take the event as an opportunity to check your blood sugar and A1C numbers. 
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Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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George Seymour
From:
Notown, Vermont, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 6:28 am
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Could be Herb, different time in the clubs back then
We liked wild turkey that prob raised hell with blood sugar as well as BAC
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Old Emmons D-10's & Wrap Resound 65, Standel amps!
Old Gibson Mastertones |
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George Seymour
From:
Notown, Vermont, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 6:42 am
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This is the looks of a scary man Herb, Vermin Supreme, had to get a picture with him at a club we were playing at in Manchester NH, same night of the presidential ralleys, lots
Of creatures out that night! Oh this was about 11's. I'm wait at the hospital for my wife broken arm to be pinned...just yappin'
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Old Emmons D-10's & Wrap Resound 65, Standel amps!
Old Gibson Mastertones |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 9:40 am
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I am a mutant. Who else picked mutant. Maybe we could get together sometime and mutate.
I don't see how a piano tuner could be afraid of guitar wire.
Where you pull a string, what it rests on, each of these is a place where the molecules, so to speak, are stretched more than other spots.
Steel strings will accommodate their short stretching and return pretty much from their elastic limit when that limit isn't surpassed
in certain places. The finger surface just behind its crown is a likely suspect. Technically, you risk adding nodes in the string where you pull.
Where are these strings breaking? They have to be stopped! |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 10:53 am
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Broke one on my gig Saturday night. Can't remember the last time.
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Edward Rhea
From:
Medford Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 10:56 am
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You just haven't lived until a G(#)-string snaps you in the face!! 
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 3:05 pm
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I have always used a .012 on my guitars, never had issues with them breaking, and the sound far better as well.
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Bobby Boggs
From:
Upstate SC.
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 5:43 pm
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I voted no. And was surprised at how many voted yes. I've lost a lot more skin installing a new one. Running it up to pitch. Don't recall getting cut if the bar was down.
I don't change strings nearly often enough. And once broke strings 3 and 4 on C6th at the very same time. Now that will get your attention. 
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