Ernie Ball Strings.....

[Dom Rocco]

Hey, i am a new guy.. Go easy...

 

 

So i restring my accoustic this evening, because my Strat needs to go in for a bridge adjustment....

 

I went with .10 Ernie Ball strings. I wanted something REALLY light because i dont' play my accoustic much these days and my barre chords and such sounded horrible with the martin .13's i had on before....

 

Anyway....

 

I took my time restringing, i haven't done much of it in my short career. It looked like I did a good job. Stretched and in tune i played some open chord tunes for 15 or so minutes, retuned and fired off some blues licks for fun.

 

First bend on the G string seventh fret and POP... SOB.....

 

The string popped right on the fret.

 

Too much pressure? To light of gauge? Something i did wrong when i strung it up? Or faulty string?

 

Suggestions?

[ronin32]

Some times it just happens. My friend told me he broke a string just 5 min. after changing the strings.

[domino]

Hey.

As another new guy I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it.

Could be a mix of how you strung it and the fact you were using a light gauge while bending the string but I'd just stick another one on there and hope for the best. Just make sure you leave enough slack in the string when you're putting it on so that it won't get too stretched when you tune up to G - if that makes sense.

If you break another one as easily then you may have a problem but hey, sometimes these things happen.

[ajcoholic]

Been using EB strings on both electric and acoustics for years (like >15) and nothing unusual from me - and I go through 3 dozen sets a year easy. I break em' once and a while on the electric but dont even remember the last time I broke a string on my acoustic.

[Cldplytkmn]

check the fret that it broke on... look for a sharp point on that fret or something... if not that, i'd vote for just a bad string... i don't think it has anything to do with how you put it on or the fact that it was a light set of strings since it broke near the center of the fretboard... put a new one on and don't sweat it.

[Tralfaz]

I've had the same sort of thing happen when I've tried extra-light gauge strings on my acoustics... the G string would break fairly quickly, often at a fret, and once right over the soundhole where I was strumming.

I really have no idea why, but my suspicion is that the core of the G might actually be thinner than the first string itself. That's just my guess, though. I don't have any string packs here to confirm that.

Anyhow, when going for that slinky psuedo-electric feel on an acoustic, I much prefer dumping the wound G altogether and replacing it with an unwound one.

[Cldplytkmn]

the g string typically has the thinnest core of any of the strings.