Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: _tom_ on December 20, 2005, 06:56:47 PM
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..I got some Graphtech string savers about a week or so ago, in that time I've allready gone through 2 D's! I thought these were meant to be the best saddles?!! I've checked it all and it seems smooth, and the strings dont go to the tailpiece at a very sharp angle.. What the hell?!
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Where did they break? On the bridge?
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Yep! Right where they are meant to be saved from premature breakage :cry:
Should I start stringing it up the Zakk way? (strings over the top of the tailpiece)
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What gauge and tuning are you using??
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11s in standard at the minute. I may go back down to 10s soon though, or d'addario 10.5s
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Don't tell me that - I'm getting some for christmas for that exact reason!!! :o
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The rest of the strings are fine, its just the bloody D has snapped twice :evil:
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Funnily enough, that's the one I break most often. I think it's a combination of my heavy and dynamic picking style (you need to play hard to get the right sound out of a plexi :twisted: ), and the fact that i love playing diads on the D and G strings 8)
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Funnily enough, that's the one I break most often. I think it's a combination of my heavy and dynamic picking style (you need to play hard to get the right sound out of a plexi :twisted: ), and the fact that i love playing diads on the D and G strings 8)
Yeah you gotta play hard with the Mules to get their best tone :D I dunno what the hell diads are though haha.
I think the breakage may just be the brand of string? I changed to GHS boomers when I first installed the saddles, I always used d'addario before but I just wanted to see if there was anything better..
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Actually, odd though it seems, the only time I've broken bigger strings was when I used thicker guages....and really hammered them. I think thinner strings are supple enough to take it.
I find it odd that the saddles did nothing to ease your predicament, whereabouts along the string do you pick? Maybe that's something to do with it, did it happen when you used lighter guages?
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Try d'addario 10's and don't go to Billy Joe Armstrong on them.
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Try d'addario 10's and don't go to Billy Joe Armstrong on them.
I dont really like 10s on a LP, they feel too floppy. Thats why I'm thinkin of tryin 10.5s, which seem perfect. I cant help hitting the strings hard though I just get into it, I snapped a pick playing the Heartbreaker solo the other week :o! Oh and I use Dunlop .96mm picks now which feel great. I pick around where the start of a middle pickup would be if I had one. If d'addario 10.5s dont work I think I'm gonna have to get used to 10s or something?
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When I started playing guitar I used GHS strings, because a friend did, but I stopped, because I always broke strings. I never had a set get old before one of the strings snapped. Now I use anything but GHS. Obviously, they can't do that for everyone or no one would buy them, but that was my experience.
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aha it seems GHS just suck for the majority of people then! I got a replacement .28 today, branded "picanto" so we'll see how that goes!
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Picanto? Does that come with a sauce?
Hope they'll work.
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^hahah, I got that wrong, they are "Picato":
http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/Catalogue/ViewProduct.aspx?productId=708
Get good reviews, and are made in the UK, which means they must be good right?! :lol:
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too bad they didn't help _tom_ :( i fitted them to my V and didn't break a string since then... i was usually breaking E and A strings
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I can't help with your breakage problem but I can recommend a brand of string I've been using for the past year that just last forever... 'Dr Duck'.
I've never seen them in any UK shops but they're cheap enough on ebay direct from the good Dr. I use 11s and they sound great, better than the D-Addarios I'd be using for the previous 15 years (except a small spell of using Snarling Dogs)
:twisted:
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I used to use a variety of strings, and used to go thru them like a karate man out for revenge. Think I'm a bit heavy handed... anyway
Started using Rotosound Reds (Gauge 11s) and I maintain they are the best I have tried - last a load longer than D'addarrio, Ernie Balls etc
If you're going to try a few brands and see what suits, it's definately worth giving Rotosound a go.
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I normally use Ernie Ball Super Slinkys (9's) and I never break strings and I hammer the $%&# out of them too!
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Tom have you got some really odd tecnique that you're not telling us about where yu pick up the guitar by the D string and shake it? or similar. I really can't think what the problem is unless you are doing something odd with it. yu say that it unravells yes?
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Hahaha indy no I dont have an odd technique. It unravels though so I guess its not really string snappage. I tried rotosounds and they didnt last long atall. Anyway this picato string is lasting longer than the GHS strings did :D
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Your probably best off taking it to a local tech to get looked at, its probably something wrong with the set up or something. Its hard for any one to say with out having it in front of them.