Originally Posted by: tubes... The guitar these are going on is for my 12 year old son. Maybe he'll quit bothering me every time he breaks a string![font=trebuchet ms]I think you should find out why he's breaking strings. That shouldn't be happening. There may be a burr or a sharp edge somewhere that cuts into the string.
Buddy Guy is known to break a string on almost every song, but you'll notice that it's always the high E, and he has a tech waiting off-stage to bring him a freshly-strung axe. It's a set-up. A good tech could solve it in a couple of minutes, but Buddy thinks it looks cool. :p
Strings don't break unless
- The strings are old
- They're being beaten unmercifully (five-minute penalty for roughing) :mad:
- There's a sharp spot cutting the strings