dewayne Posted March 18 Posted March 18 Last 7-8 months I have been plagued by strings breaking at the tuning pegs of strings 1 and 3. This occurs on my electric and acoustic guitars. Different string gauges and brands. Only to happens when tuning, I change keys fairly frequently which may include a capo on acoustics but normally I twist the pegs to change key/tuning. This has become a recent issue 6-7 months and has not affected banjo, 5 or 6 string, nor ukulele. I'm thinking that it has to be a burr but cannot see or feel anything. Again only on on 1 & 3 strings. Different guitars different strings same result on most of Quote
randythoades Posted March 18 Posted March 18 (edited) Well, I find it very unlikely that different guitars and different brands of strings have exactly the same issue on the same strings. It must be a different contributing factor that is common to all instruments... maybe environment, temperature, humidity... and dare I say... the user. Maybe it is something about the way you fit your strings or the angle of your strumming hand. Maybe it is just a bit heavy handed and you need to look at your technique or use heavier gauges to accommodate. Although, if it was technique you would probably get the same issue with banjo and uke too. I had an issue years ago breaking the top E string pretty much once a week. I realised that it was the was I used the pick and that I didn't need to be quite so aggressive. I managed to train myself out of it and now have quite a light touch and use incredibly light strings now. haven't broken a string now for years. Edited March 18 by randythoades Quote
dewayne Posted Sunday at 05:23 Author Posted Sunday at 05:23 Since posting I realized that I have gone from using 11's and 12's down to 10's so I can play Open A# and not worry so much about the neck. Also I also realized that on electric Ive gone to trying to find a quiet round wound string for slide playing. Haven't been successful with that though ghs brites (half wounds I think) are promising. But costs about as much as flats ($16) so may as well return to chromes. I just hAte 20 bucks for a pack of strings and all flat wounds I come across cost at least $20. That's just electric. Acoustic breakage almost no open tunings or slide. Just some form of standard usually tuned down between 1 and 2 1/2 steps. Then apply capo as needed. I just put on DR red devils on a b.c. rich but still a bit noisy. Acoustically it must be string gauge but I'm actually extremely gentle on strings with right hand. 99 percent is flesh (short nails) on steel,nickel or whatever it is. I need to contemplate it a bit more. Would less winding on peg affect break? Quote
