ever have your finger catch a metal splinter from some strings?

[scuzzo]

if you have you know where im coming from.. this just freaking sucks..

but i still want to play.. dang.. i cant even get at it with tweezers..

 

yea i guess i go hunt for some cheese

for the whine..

 

sad sad

 

 

sad..

[StillRock]

It's a real pain in the fingers.

[LesPaulFetish]

Never... What strings do you use? I hope it's not Ernie Ball

[GreatDane]

never had this happen to me. as above, would love to know what strings you're using...

[Bubbluz]

Metal slivers suck for sure .

 

Can't say I could ever attribute one to guitar strings though .

[ashasha]

Good lord no, that sounds like it would suck pretty bad. I've been stabbed by the ends on the tuning pegs (esecially during a set up when I'm trying to re-use and old string because I'm cheap), but never like what I think you are talking about.

[Jarick]

No but it sounds painful!

 

I have gotten carbon fiber splinters from hockey blades before, once while on the bench. Incredibly painful. I think I just grabbed as much skin as possible between the fingernails and ripped until I got it so I could keep playing.

[LesPaulFetish]

I've been stabbed by the ends on the tuning pegs.

 

This has happened, but slivers sound wayyy worse

[scuzzo]

dang,, must be doing someum wrong.. mignt just be i tore the callus a bit .. either way time for new strings and such.

[Orange Jackson]

I stepped on a short piece of a thin E string (9's). OMG that freaking hurt!!

[Cobalt Blue]

Yes, I am going to suggest better strings and (much) more frequent string changes.

 

On a related note, after getting poked today by a string end when changing strings, I was thinking that the only people whose fingers get pricked more than guitarists are diabetics. (They still do that, right?)

[mrbrown49]

Do you use steel wool to clean your boards or polish frets? More likely its a piece of that you dislodged from where ever it was stuck.

[sylvesterlowery]

Funny you should mention this. I work with steel cable, and when cutting it, little bits of metal fly everywhere. And there's always little metal splinters left on the ends.

I've had more metal get under my skin than I can even begin to remember. It does hurt like a mother{censored}er, and it's even worse if it's on your fretting hand. Sometimes you can work it to the surface a bit with a very strong magnet. I usually end up using a powerful flashlight and a pair of tweezers to dig it out and use some Liquid Skin to get by.

On the day of the biggest show my band had last year, I had a little sliver of metal under my skin on my fretting hand and had the thumb on my right hand slammed between a tailgate and a wooden crate at work. Hurt like hell until we hit the stage. Got so caught up in the show that I forgot how much that {censored} hurt.

[Mesa/Kramer]

Never happened in 30 years and have never even heard of such a thing..................

[csm]

Sounds like a wound string so far past its change-by date that the windings are unravelling and breaking. I'd also bet that playing comfort and tuning/intonation accuracy are also seriously affected for the worse.

 

A word to the wise guy: a string should NEVER stay on the guitar long enough to deteriorate to that extent.

[scuzzo]

 

Sounds like a wound string so far past its change-by date that the windings are unravelling and breaking. I'd also bet that playing comfort and tuning/intonation accuracy are also seriously affected for the worse. A word to the wise guy: a string should NEVER stay on the guitar long enough to deteriorate to that extent.

 

 

yep,, i did let those strings go way way too long.. I had to put together a custom set and i wanted to get the very last drop out of those.. and you are correct about intonate and such.. well the offending set has been dispatched and now lie coiled and dead in the ben... always keep nice strings on and clean after play time.. it will bite you if you dont..

 

yep..

[csm]

My other basic rule -- and when I don't keep to it I ALWAYS have cause to regret it and wish I had -- is that if you don't replace your strings after two gigs/rehearsals -- you INVARIABLY break a string on the third.