Members Count Chocula Posted August 11, 2012 Members Share Posted August 11, 2012 I'm absolutely terrified of the world now. @___@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted August 11, 2012 Members Share Posted August 11, 2012 Funny, the same thing happened to me some time ago on a fairly new Gibson SG. I had to set it down and just back away Just last week I got the courage to go back in and change out the strings. It really was down for quite a while. But I often just set a guitar down and pick up another for a while. But that one actually did surprise me a bit since the strings hadn't had much playing time on them, but yeah, I'd been up and down tuning and I guess it just didn't like it when I tried to bring it back up. Finicky she was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted August 11, 2012 Members Share Posted August 11, 2012 prolly just a coincidence. or the devil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted August 11, 2012 Members Share Posted August 11, 2012 ^^^ I thought mine might have been caused by some bad Gibson mojo (there is good and bad you know) that caused me to go through a wrinkle in time and therefore tune up too far, but I swear I didn't do that. But of course, how would I have known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted August 12, 2012 Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 Must be a death metal player. Only death metal players are badass enough to break strings while down tuning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folky_Grunge Posted August 12, 2012 Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 I've done that before, too. Apparently strings don't like it when you change their tension a lot. Or maybe my g string really didn't want to play Nick Drake stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Foster Zygote Posted August 12, 2012 Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 Do you use locking tuners? I've found that this can happen with locking tuners because there's so little string wound around the peg that tuning down and back up can bend the string at the point where it passes into the hole in the peg. This back and forth bending weakens the string at that point and it snaps. I don't tune down, but this happened to me once when I was fine tuning the nut slots on a new nut I'd made. I'd been loosening the string to lift it from the slot, then tuning it back up to tension to check the action. After a few repetitions the G string snapped at the peg while I unwinding it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Count Chocula Posted August 12, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 It was a regular ol' Fender tuner; the string that snapped was my 1st string, which was an 11 gauge and always tuned at E. Then while lowering it to a D, the incident happened and my world got turned upside down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kellanium Posted August 12, 2012 Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 This has happened to me before. Which end did it snap at? I'll bet you a pack of strings there's a burr at that end. File it out a bit and restring. It's not too difficult. pretty easy fix, actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted August 12, 2012 Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 If the string has a sharp kink and the kink is straightened out it can snap. Did it snap at the tuner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted August 12, 2012 Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 I snapped a guitar string while down tuning.I'm absolutely terrified of the world now. @___@ Sounds like a Nigel Tufnell quote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Count Chocula Posted August 12, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 If the string has a sharp kink and the kink is straightened out it can snap. Did it snap at the tuner? It snapped at the tuner, so yeah, sharp kink seems to be the best answer to this witchcraft that befell upon me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Danhedonia Posted August 12, 2012 Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 I've done that before, too. Apparently strings don't like it when you change their tension a lot. Or maybe my g string really didn't want to play Nick Drake stuff. I love snapping g strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stormin1155 Posted August 12, 2012 Members Share Posted August 12, 2012 I've broken a lot of strings while loosening the tension. I do a lot of repair/mod work which requires loosening and re-tightening the strings. After you've done that several times, good chance one of the strings will break... It's usually the high e, so I just keep some singles on hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members noisebloom Posted August 13, 2012 Members Share Posted August 13, 2012 I did that once. I snapped the high E string because I started downtuning with the low strings first, which puts more pressure on the high strings. Since then, when I downtune more than two notes, I start with the high strings. Then, when I tune up to E standard again, I start with the low strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Foster Zygote Posted August 15, 2012 Members Share Posted August 15, 2012 It snapped at the tuner, so yeah, sharp kink seems to be the best answer to this witchcraft that befell upon me! Either that, or you missed the part where Rod Serling narrated something about the human condition twenty minutes prior to it happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members headless Posted August 15, 2012 Members Share Posted August 15, 2012 See, this is why I always wear safety goggles--always. It used to be that women thought I was disabled in some way, but now they just think that I'm a hipster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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