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Sometimes small dents on the underside of old strings contributes to them deadening.
Maybe get out a magnifying glass and see if you find evidence of fret indentations, ruining the string wrap? |
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Could probably fix that with solder.......
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It does work, but the effect only last a few hours. The boiling process loosens the crud which embeds between the wire wrap. As a kid I did this a lot with bass strings. Which were, from my perspective of have NO income, incredibly expensive.
I use to disappear into the kitchen for 20 minutes which pleased my mother. She actually thought I was developing an interest in the culinary arts and wanted to help. I told her I could handle it and she never found out...otherwise I wouldn't be here and you would be reading the post above!
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He's a banjo player
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Maybe he got his fingers in the boiling water. That would make some people swear. I know I would swear................to never do that again!
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It's not the worst idea i've come across.
It's probably why piano strings last so long... no perspiration crud.
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Copy that good buddy. That's why I keep a drawer full of string sets of my favorite strings. There's really no reason to every run low OR out with the interned able to get you strings in 2-3 days for good prices. Stock up before you need more.
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They also don't press against frets, or get picked.
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Andrew Pouska from Study Bass suggests soaking strings in denatured alcohol for 12-24 hours rather than boiling them. He says that boiling gives the strings new life, but they go dead within a few days, as the water causes the metal to corrode.
https://www.studybass.com/gear/bass-...-bass-strings/ He even describes how to build a string soaking container using PVC pipe. https://www.studybass.com/gear/bass-...cleaning-tube/ Since bass strings are expensive, bass players are super motivated to get more life out of their strings! |
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Or I could just drink vodka and play dirty strings.
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Next time, I am going to boil just the wound strings. Seems like it would do more harm than good to the unwound. And with just four strings to remove, boil and restring, the time commitment is 1/3 shorter.
BTW, Day 2 and both sets of boiled strings still sound nice and fresh.
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And now for an update.
Nearly a week later, the boiled strings are still sounding pretty good, despite some pretty regular playing. Not brand new, but good enough that I am not yet ready to reach for a new set. Yesterday, I removed the dead wound JP 600's on three more guitars, and boiled them with a little dish soap squirted in the water for good measure. Same result. Brighter, more toneful, with greater sustain. Like a new set that has been played in a bit. Very nice. Next experiment will be to reboil a set of wound strings that has gone dead again. Can they be brought back to life again and again?
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A buddy of mine would, one at a time, slacken the wound strings and detach them at the bridge end.
He would twist each string a couple turns in the direction that tightened the windings and reattach the string. He swore it gave the strings new life for a few hours before they went totally dead. You could try that in addition to the boiling... Never tried it myself. |