Hi,
I play Ernies since ... Nothing but praise. Recently I have bought a new guitar; Epiphone Futura EX and stringer her with ... Skinny Top Heavy Bottoms as usually. This is now a 4th week I have her and I already had to change the high E string (gauge .010) twice. Due to unwinding. This has never happened to me before. I noticed, that the string is unwinding only when I am bending it. That means that when I play a solo part, I have some 10 minutes of lifetime on this string.
Now my question(s) would be:
- am I doing something wrong when stringing a guitar? Should I use forceps to squeeze the string by the ball end?
- is there something wrong with the stoptail bridge, so the string is being twisted?
- I am using strings, which I purchased a while ago in an bulk package offer so also, could this be the problem; old unused strings?
I would really appreciate some comments since changing strings every couple of days is getting quite expensive.
Thanks.
I play Ernies since ... Nothing but praise. Recently I have bought a new guitar; Epiphone Futura EX and stringer her with ... Skinny Top Heavy Bottoms as usually. This is now a 4th week I have her and I already had to change the high E string (gauge .010) twice. Due to unwinding. This has never happened to me before. I noticed, that the string is unwinding only when I am bending it. That means that when I play a solo part, I have some 10 minutes of lifetime on this string.
Now my question(s) would be:
- am I doing something wrong when stringing a guitar? Should I use forceps to squeeze the string by the ball end?
- is there something wrong with the stoptail bridge, so the string is being twisted?
- I am using strings, which I purchased a while ago in an bulk package offer so also, could this be the problem; old unused strings?
I would really appreciate some comments since changing strings every couple of days is getting quite expensive.
Thanks.
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