Big problem with D'Addario strings

[Nitro Express]

A small E string makes an excellent cheese cutter or murder weapon. Atatch a wood handle to each side and you can cut slices of cheese or someone's neck like butter!

[Eyes of the Night]

I brake any kind of strings on my Wolfie ... that's floating ...

[Nitro Express]

My Wolfies like to break strings.

[indeedido]

I'm sure it is marketed more for beginners. They tend to break that string pretty often. I haven't broken a string in so long, I can't remembe when it was.

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
Just like pussy.

Exactly.

[BrownSound1]

I break G strings most of the time.....rarely the high E.

I'll be honest when it comes to strings...I don't think every "manufacturer" is a manufacturer. I figure there are MAYBE two or three that actually make strings for everyone else. Having said that, I hate GHS anything, not a fan of Ernie Balls, and don't like Dean Markleys. :D

[jhale667]

Originally posted by BrownSound1
I break G strings most of the time.....rarely the high E.

I'll be honest when it comes to strings...I don't think every "manufacturer" is a manufacturer. I figure there are MAYBE two or three that actually make strings for everyone else.

You are correct, sir. :D

[Mr Grimsdale]

Originally posted by BrownSound1
I break G strings most of the time.....

ooh no missus no!

[Nitro Express]

I've never been that string picky and D'Addario and GHS are string manufactures who also make private label strings. Now, what these companies do is wind the strings but they buy their wire from other manufactures.

By the time you get your pack of Brand X strings there could be as many as five or more sepparate companys involved there. One company distribute them, another winds them, other companies provide the wire and components and on an average set of guitar strings, you are looking at three different guages of nickel wire for wrap, plus the six different guage core wire.

This wire has to be extruded using specific metalurgical processes which is beyond the scope of most string manufactures.

If you think Ernie Ball is making all these components in house, they aren't just like Seymour Duncan doesn't make his own pickup bobbin wire.

[Seshmeister]

I've been using Ernie Ball 9's for 20 years.

They usually rust before the break these days but that's probably due to the lack of playing I do now.

I remember D's being a problem too.

I used to never trim them so that I could put broken strings back on when money was tight.

[Eyes of the Night]

Originally posted by Cato
haven't heard it in ages....


*slides Eyes a bucket of hot sauce*

That IS some funny shit broham ...

[Nitro Express]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
I've been using Ernie Ball 9's for 20 years.

They usually rust before the break these days but that's probably due to the lack of playing I do now.

I remember D's being a problem too.

I used to never trim them so that I could put broken strings back on when money was tight.

I loved the Floyd Rose when I was poor because the strings always broke at the bridge so you could unclamp it roll some more string out, clamp it up again and get more use out of the string.

I also found strings sounded pretty good if you played them all the time but tended to go when they were played a lot and then not played for awhile.

On electric guitars that are being played with lots of distortion, you can use a set of strings for a long time. They actually sound better a tad dead then they do new. On an accoustic guitar, you can get away with old strings as much; especially the nylon ones on a classical guitar.

Eddie Van Halen said in the studio he preffered old strings full of boogers and dirt but changed them everynight for live shows because they tended to break.