Worst guitar string injury you've ever had?

[geek_usa]

The other day I was playing my acoustic and I went to slide down really quick to hit a chord, well by golly part of a clipped string was sticking out just right and I jammed my finger right into the needle. Bled for awhile

 

Got me thinking. What's the worst you have been through for a guitar string-related injury?

[vcnyls]

[Acid Test]

After triming the extra string off of the tuners, I ended up with a piece of the g string in the bottom of my foot. It was hiding in the carpet just waiting for me. Only went in about 1/2".

[PR_Tom]

Sometimes I have gas in my brain and I wrap a cloth around a string and scrub it hard and fast, generating a burning heat.. ouch!!!

 

That, and being poked.. yowch.

[Monkeyman Joe]

hmm i've had guitar strings stuck in the bottom of my feet so hard i needed pliers to get them out.

 

But i'd say the worst is when my girlfriend stuck herself on probably the clipped D string of one of my guitars, she said it was very painful and it bled a lot, it was really painful for me. i do it like once a week so it's no big deal, but yeah, her doing it made me cringe.

 

if i ever have kids i'm going to come up with some sort of caps to put on the end of the strings so i don't get any lil' accidents

[geek_usa]

After triming the extra string off of the tuners, I ended up with a piece of the g string in the bottom of my foot. It was hiding in the carpet just waiting for me. Only went in about 1/2".

 

I do that quite often actually.

[mrbrown49]

I had a b string go under my finger nail once. It didn't look like much, but it bled like a mutha, and hurt like hell for a few days.

[Notverysuttle]

Now this did not happen to me, but to another fellow my instructor was teaching. He was attempting to tune his electric guitar while hanging his face over the edge of the guitar. The G-string broke and sliced his left eye rendering it useless.

[ian4692]

one time, a few years ago, i don't know how but my high e string snapped and put a significant cut over my right hand

[The Crusher]

I took a .009 in the lip once, it cut the hell out of my lip.

[inkblot]

I've stabbed my fingers with the cut off ends of strings sticking out of tuners a few times, nothing that actually caused bleeding IIRC.

[RooSTER-b]

Severed head.

 

Ok...not really, but when I worked in a mom and pop store years ago, people would bring in their old cheap acoustics and ask why the action was so high. Many times, they had all 6 strings tuned nearly an octive high. We would literally lay them on the counter (carefully) and kneel down, detuning each string at arms length, so as not to have the bridge fly off and impale our foreheads.

[wats]

hmm i've had guitar strings stuck in the bottom of my feet so hard i needed pliers to get them out. But i'd say the worst is when my girlfriend stuck herself on probably the clipped D string of one of my guitars, she said it was very painful and it bled a lot, it was really painful for me. i do it like once a week so it's no big deal, but yeah, her doing it made me cringe. if i ever have kids i'm going to come up with some sort of caps to put on the end of the strings so i don't get any lil' accidents

 

They make this liquid electrical tape that you can brush on to stuff. I use it at work. a little dab on the end of your string and no more ouchies.

[stratocaster202]

well i swallowed a pick... once a nylon string whipped a shepards crook mark on my hand. If you watch the making of the Dani California music video flea gets whipped by a bass string on his back.

[Monkeyman Joe]

They make this liquid electrical tape that you can brush on to stuff. I use it at work. a little dab on the end of your string and no more ouchies.

 

Thanks! i'll have to grab a bottle of that and keep it in my main guitar cases wisdom of the week right here

[3red]

i was killed by one in 1992

[washburndean]

A string broke on me one time and hit me in the cheek. That hurt a bit.

[noisebloom]

A long time ago I got the silly idea to string my Strat with .008s. Not long after, I got a real scare when I dragged my pinky up the fretboard on the high E string, and it gave me what amounted to a deep papercut. A little blood, but not too serious. No stitches. Didn't play again for a while, and I never used .008s again. But that was nothing compared to Ted Nugent's similar injury in the 80s, though -- IIRC his string cut him all the way to the bone.

[Procreatur]

on my first guitar i had a string snap at the bridge and wrap around my hand. left a nasty looking welt. i throw my clippings out, so i don't get them in my feet. i've also taking a string end underneath my fingernail. thats probably the worst.

[Minitruth]

Read about a guy hanging himself with one.

 

 

I win.

[drawdeep]

Mostly just little pokes, but I narrowly avoided one the other night- was playing my Strat, and the strap came off the bottom peg. As the strat fell, I instinctively grabbed for it and ended up grabbing the strings. All the weight of the falling Strat ended up being stopped by the tip of my pinky under the high E (.09).

 

I honestly thought I had cut the tip of my pinky off from the way it felt, but ended up with just an abrasion and some swelling almost like a blister.

[Leisure Lee]

I changed strings on my Strat one time and evidently didnt pick up the old small E string because my wife found it with the vacuum cleaner ! Wrapped around the roller brush and severed the drive belt slick in half ! The only thing hurt was my ear, if you know what I mean !............................................

[mondaymonkey]

Mostly just little pokes, but I narrowly avoided one the other night- was playing my Strat, and the strap came off the bottom peg. As the strat fell, I instinctively grabbed for it and ended up grabbing the strings. All the weight of the falling Strat ended up being stopped by the tip of my pinky under the high E (.09). I honestly thought I had cut the tip of my pinky off from the way it felt, but ended up with just an abrasion and some swelling almost like a blister.

 

But the strat was saved?

 

[DADGADammit]

 

Severed head. Ok...not really, but when I worked in a mom and pop store years ago, people would bring in their old cheap acoustics and ask why the action was so high. Many times, they had all 6 strings tuned nearly an octive high. We would literally lay them on the counter (carefully) and kneel down, detuning each string at arms length, so as not to have the bridge fly off and impale our foreheads.

 

 

wow how did those strings not break?

 

I don't know if this counts as a string injury, but I ripped off the nail on my middle finger one time doing upstroke windmills Townsend style.

[rock-lobster]

 

Now this did not happen to me, but to another fellow my instructor was teaching. He was attempting to tune his electric guitar while hanging his face over the edge of the guitar. The G-string broke and sliced his left eye rendering it useless.

 

 

holy {censored}. that's horrible. i'm staying the {censored} away from my headstock.