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[scrub1234]

I have a 4string StingRay and use the Regular Slinky EB strings. I love the sound, but i play out every weekend and i would say every other weekend, i break my E-String. Is there something i can do?

Could it be an imperfection in the bridge? I tried to sandpaper it, but what else can i do....or did i just make it worse?

mike
www.montysfanclub.com

 

[jongitarz]

You probably made it worse. Email your address to me at [email protected] and I will send you a new saddle.

Jon

 

[Warg Master]

You may have a bur in the saddle...sandpapering usually helps...maybe take it to a tech if it is still doing it....That's my opinion.


yeah...but what jon said

 

[fifthorange]

i break my e-string ever couple of months too. i dunno why i break the e-string, it seems more logical to have a thinner string break. can someone explain this?

but i play pretty hard. o yeah, has anyone tried out rotosound and dr string? i would really like a review before i blow 40 buck to try them both.

 

[Aussie Mark]

i break my e-string ever couple of months too. i dunno why i break the e-string, it seems more logical to have a thinner string break. can someone explain this?

My theory on this scientific phenomenon is that the E string is heavier, and once you get it moving vigorously it generates more momentum than a smaller string, so the accumulated metal fatigue at the point where the string crosses the saddle is proportionately greater.

 

[fifthorange]

that sounds reasonable

 

[bovinehost]

Sounds to me like Mark is drunk.

 

[skabassist13]

id say either drunk or trying to be a smart ass.

 

[bovinehost]

Oh no, he's Australian. He wouldn't do that.

 

[skabassist13]

mhmm. maybe hes not the smart ass.

 

[Mobay45]

Is that the "Aussie Mark Theory of Bass String Relativity"?

 

[oldbluebassman]

If Mark is correct then the phase of the moon on the date that the string was fitted would also have an effect!!

 

[midopa]

In that case, my strings are capricorns.

 

[jubjub721]

i would have to disagree
they would be gemini
because the gemini is the tempremental attention getting person or string in this case
and its just the e string that is a gemini

 

[midopa]

Darn strings. They told me themselves they were Capricorns. Psh. It's the E string, I guess. He's gone off and turned the rest into nasty punks. Gemini they are, then.

 

[Aussie Mark]

If I were drunk I'd have made some spelling mistakes or typos, just like the rest of you alcoholics.