Members bassdudeguy Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 Originally posted by turcmic I learned a great recipe for boiling strings. Take a pencil and follow the instructions carefully : 1) remove the strings from the bass, slowly 2) spray some wd-40 and put them in aluminium foil for at least 3 hours 3) put them into boiling water for 6 minutes (5 is not enough, 7 is way too much) 4) let them dry for 2 days at room temperature. DO NOT expose the strings to the light 5) put a little bit of corn starch on them (1 tablespoon or so) in order to help the boomy sound we all like and wrap everything into a piece of newspaper (I don't recall that the date or content was important) for 16 hours 6) put the strings into a large glass bowl with a cup of raspberry vinegar ( that really helps the mids) for 10 to 12 minutes 7) rince with fresh water 8) let them dry on a cotton towel 9) this is the most important part : take the strings and put them one at the time into any form of green plastic bag 10) throw the green bag in the garbage and buy new strings i fell over:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members basste Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 i boiled my strings in a 50/water 50/vinegar during 30 min. I'm pretty happy from the result. (no, it's not a joke ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the_grouse_mouse Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 Originally posted by Saturday I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bnyswonger Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 I take them all off, boil them 10 minutes and they're good for another 2 months or 'til they start breaking, whichever comes first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flatball Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 Originally posted by james on bass For what it's worth, it really only gives you a few more playing hours of life on the strings. +1 Also, if you don't put them back on more or less exactly how they were, you create new "crimp" points on the string and you run a greater risk of breaking strings at the old crimp points. Having experimented with this in many ways, my recommendation: Don't bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 Originally posted by sunburstbasser Hard to think that this thread got THAT far off from an old joke! BTW, Manring's Hyperboiler is nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members someotherguy Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 Now this is great thread.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dakhwon Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 Question for you guys... is it possible for me to use my guitar boiler tub for my bass? I don't wanna have to pay for another one just for bass... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rumble Bass Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 If you boil guitar strings will they fit on a bass? Or is it the other way around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fireball_73 Posted September 18, 2006 Members Share Posted September 18, 2006 Originally posted by dakhwon Question for you guys... is it possible for me to use my guitar boiler tub for my bass? I don't wanna have to pay for another one just for bass... No, when bass strings are boiled they create very low frequency sound waves. Bass tubs are reinforced against these but the guitar ones just fall apart because they are made out of basically paper bags. My $0.02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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