Breaking a string in a solo

[bluemustard]

I fear it soo!
Maybe thats why it breaks??
Anybody know?
I like 0,08 strings..but when I play hard gypsy mode and I hit the e string on a very high note it sometimes breaks.
Pisses me off..

I gotta parker fly deluxe guitar..if i put 0,10 strings on it it might help but the 0,08 strings are more flexable.
Anybody an expert?
Are you pretty much fucked if you don't have a private guitar engineer working for ya?

[Hardrock69]

Actually you are required to never replace the string.

Once it is broken, your guitar is cursed for eternity.

[Nitro Express]

Are the strings breaking at the bridge saddles? Playing higher notes makes the string shorter and puts higher tension on it.

I have two Les Pauls. One was breaking strings constantly and the other one with the same guage and brand of strings would play forever without busting a string. Both guitars had the same make of Tune-O-Matic bridges.

What I found was the guitar breaking the strings had a sharper edge on the string saddles. I fixed that by rounding things over a tad with a needle file. You don't have to take too much off either! Just a touch like 10/1000 of an inch or so. If your saddle to string contact is too sharp, it acts just like a string cutter.

[bluemustard]

Yeah..they broke at the bridge..I'll try to put tension lower..I aint gonna file stuff..I dunno what I'm doing..Don't wanna fuck up my guitar..
Maybe he's cursed
Thanks for the info!!

[bluemustard]

If you wanna release tension..do you go up or down on the bridge with the stringholders?(or whatchamacallit??)
I wouldnt know..i dont think it needs a needle file caus its all smooth liquid metal type of shit Parker uses I think.
Do I go up or down for less tension?

[bluemustard]

[bluemustard]

I guess it goes down?
yeah...i think so..
man I'm stoned.
lol

[Big Troubles]

Narly.

[DeadOrAlive]

Originally posted by bluemustard
If you wanna release tension..do you go up or down on the bridge with the stringholders?(or whatchamacallit??)
I wouldnt know..i dont think it needs a needle file caus its all smooth liquid metal type of shit Parker uses I think.
Do I go up or down for less tension?

Those strings look fuckin' huge brother.

[Don Corleone]

I've broke plenty during solo's. I've even seen pro's break strings in the middle of solos (the most recent being Brian May). Personally I'd start using 0.09's if I was you. I've used 0.08's and found that the high E kept going, and I found 0.10's to be a little heavy for my taste.

[bluemustard]

D.O.A. That pic of the bridge is from the internet..I got a black parker.
I use 008 now.
But I think I'll try the 009 again like Don said.
Thanks!!

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by Don Corleone
I've broke plenty during solo's. I've even seen pro's break strings in the middle of solos (the most recent being Brian May). Personally I'd start using 0.09's if I was you. I've used 0.08's and found that the high E kept going, and I found 0.10's to be a little heavy for my taste.

Spot on.

[Nitro Express]

Is the Parker a string through body design like a Stratocaster? Because if it is the breakage might not be at the saddles but where the string bends over the edge of the hole to the saddle. This is a problem in the traditional Stratocaster bridge.

Stevie Ray Vaughn's guitar tech had a brilliant sollution to the problem. He would strip off the insulation off of wire with wire strippers and slip the hollow plastic tubes over the guitar strings. This way you have a protecting sleave between your bridge friction point and the string.

[DeadOrAlive]

Originally posted by bluemustard
D.O.A. That pic of the bridge is from the internet..I got a black parker.
I use 008 now.
But I think I'll try the 009 again like Don said.
Thanks!!

Haha sweet. I dig the heavier gauges, and one guitar I've got a .12 on the high E. The tone tears the skin off your face. But I'd recommend you don't get any gauges that high, because they can be a bitch to play.

.009's are good, because they're still a light to average gauge, and you still get complete control.

[Panamark]

Always have a second tuned up axe nearby...
Hammer on, on one of the "non broken strings" until
your beer swillin roadie passes you the backup axe...

Or just smash your guitar while staring at the the crowd
as though you are about to murder them with a chainsaw...