reusing old strings?

UNCcrombie · Post by **UNCcrombie** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 1:54 pm

SSIA, can it be done? I have a pair that i played literally 5 times but had to take off because I had to get my strings changed once under my guitar warranty within a month.

DustyDave · Post by **DustyDave** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:02 pm

Yes its possible , depending on how old those strings are though , i would recommend buying new strings

UNCcrombie · Post by **UNCcrombie** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:26 pm

they're about a year old on jan 13th. but like i said, they've been played about 5 times for 10 minutes at a time. so it's ok if i take the ones off my guitar and put those on until i have some money to buy strings?

DustyDave · Post by **DustyDave** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:31 pm

How old are the strings you got on now ?

UNCcrombie · Post by **UNCcrombie** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:41 pm

6 months, they're all coroded and green, very nasty, my fingers don't even slide anymore. also what do you reccomend cleaning the fret board with? i might as well do that while im doing this

DustyDave · Post by **DustyDave** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:45 pm

Personally i use a soft lightly wet cloth to clean it with and dry it off right away , and as far as the strings go you should really change them more often if possible

mbgreen · Post by **mbgreen** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:51 pm

UNCcrombie wrote:SSIA, can it be done? I have a pair that i played literally 5 times but had to take off because I had to get my strings changed once under my guitar warranty within a month.

Dude...theyre $6. Just get new ones. It wont kill you. And if youre using elixers, well, thats your own fault.

UNCcrombie · Post by **UNCcrombie** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:52 pm

yeah i know i should, i've been really pressed on money lately, so the guitar has taken a back seat. but i'm going to get strings in a week or 2, so i want to use these until then.

UNCcrombie · Post by **UNCcrombie** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 2:53 pm

mbgreen wrote:
UNCcrombie wrote:SSIA, can it be done? I have a pair that i played literally 5 times but had to take off because I had to get my strings changed once under my guitar warranty within a month.
Dude...theyre $6. Just get new ones. It wont kill you. And if youre using elixers, well, thats your own fault.

i play like 10min a day at most, so elixirs are best for me.

tomek322 · Post by **tomek322** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 8:38 pm

on side note... i have heard from two seperate people that you can boild old strings to get them to sound better after they seem dead. and you can do this several times. One guy said he did it 5 times, times were tough for him. But these were normal strings, I can't imagine coated strings would work, you would probobly melt the coating in the boil. I have never done this as I always have enough money to spring for a set of strings.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:55 am

they will probably break if they are detuned all the way and then put on another guitar.

DustyDave · Post by **DustyDave** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:59 am

There was a topic about this a while ago where i spoke my experience , i had heard some guy boiling strings too to give them new effect , yes they become more clean again as all the darkness goes off , but it will not contract the steel again which is logical , there for it does not give the sound like when you just buy new strings , so anyway i had to try it out because damn who knew , it might have worked so you could save some money eh , but damn i boiled those bastards and put them on , and may i say they were shining

But the tone sucked and it wasen't worth it , i tryed that once and i don't wanna bother again , and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone , and like Jay said above , you risk breaking them

Matty Boom · Post by **Matty Boom** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:00 am

most of the time i don't even play with strings on mine, so just keep them off altogether

DustyDave · Post by **DustyDave** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:04 am

Playing a little air guitar Matty ?

Matty Boom · Post by **Matty Boom** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:11 am

no i use my guitar, i just hate actually having strings on it...i actually played that lenny cover with just my b string

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