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Breaking Guitar strings is AMAZING!!!! [/sarcasm]
Posted: 5/30/2002, 6:41 pm
by Spiral Out
I surrender
I can't tune my new guitar... In-fucking-possible.
It has a non-locking tuners, so the whole thing moves whenever I tighten a string, so when this happens, all the other strings go out of tune.
I managed to break like... 3 strings trying to tune it... YAY FOR ME..
Im almost about to explode right now...
Ugh... sorry for venting.
Posted: 5/30/2002, 6:54 pm
by Axtech
Don't give up!
You should take it to the guitar shop, and get it looked at... There could be a number of things wrong with it.
Just please, don't give up!
Posted: 5/30/2002, 7:36 pm
by happening fish
Yeah, never give up. I spent an hour and a half and suffered various holes in my fingers (susan can relate
), but eventually i strung the damn thing so HA!! You can do it too!
Posted: 5/30/2002, 9:38 pm
by Spiral Out
yeah i just chopped all the strings into little pieces, and i'll go to the guitar shop tomorrow and get them to do it, and perhaps enlighten me on what im doing wrong...
oh if anyone cares, its a cort g-255 (i got rid of my old one, cuz it was busticated)
Posted: 5/31/2002, 8:08 am
by 3fishinrepair
*wishes I knew the technical names of guitars*
g... gibson?
I wanna gibson
jeff martin baby! *sigh* it just doesn't have the same ring as burrows.
EDIT: just now realised the you said cort before the g-...
Posted: 5/31/2002, 8:17 am
by Susan
I impaled my finger on one of Simone's strings, and it hurt a lot more than I expected it would
I can play a Gmaj chord! Oooh mad skillz.
I owned a guitar, it would be a PRS
Posted: 5/31/2002, 9:46 am
by Spiral Out
3fishinrepair wrote:*wishes I knew the technical names of guitars*
g... gibson?
I wanna gibson
jeff martin baby! *sigh* it just doesn't have the same ring as burrows.
EDIT: just now realised the you said cort before the g-...
Yeah, although I want a gibson as well..
But a PRS would be way better.
Posted: 5/31/2002, 3:02 pm
by happening fish
su7an wrote:I impaled my finger on one of Simone's strings, and it hurt a lot more than I expected it would
I can play a Gmaj chord! Oooh mad skillz.
I owned a guitar, it would be a PRS
That would be a G with the assistance of Simone's fingers holding yours in place, right?
Posted: 5/31/2002, 3:05 pm
by happening fish
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Oh, and sorry about the impalement, Jocelyn's a little tricky with strangers. I'm sure she'll get used to you
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Posted: 5/31/2002, 3:05 pm
by Axtech
ROFL!
Posted: 5/31/2002, 3:59 pm
by Susan
Hey, I did it on my own
Posted: 5/31/2002, 5:03 pm
by 3fishinrepair
aw, see, what kind of guitar mames a person like that?
don't worry susan, you can use my guitar, "less than mighty" he wouldn't hurt a fly
but my electric, "fire in the head", she get fiesty sometimes, beware of that one.
Posted: 5/31/2002, 10:12 pm
by Solidarity 9-6347
i was just re-stringing my (acoustic) guitar last week and snapped a string. it was really funny though cuz it shot towards my arm and i lurched backwards and screamed "MOTHERFUCKER" while my sister just stood in the doorway laughing her ass off. it hurts 
'nother funny story: my friend jen bought a used acoustic guitar and tried to tune it...except she had never played guitar before and ended up trying to tune it an octave too high. she broke 3 or 4 strings before she figured it out
~Steph
Posted: 6/1/2002, 5:50 am
by liam
i have a yamaha guitar but im getting some new ones im geting an electric acoustic and probly either a fender or a gibson
Posted: 6/1/2002, 8:04 am
by 3fishinrepair
you're getting some new ones all at once?
damn you must have alot of cash to burn
oh, and dont' get a fender, get a gibson, but that's just my opinion.
Posted: 6/1/2002, 8:06 am
by Axtech
I agree... Fenders (in general) are just too plain, both in looks and sound...
Posted: 6/1/2002, 9:35 am
by happening fish
excuse me, my fender is the 5h17.
Posted: 6/1/2002, 9:47 am
by Axtech
Yes, but yours is special!
Posted: 6/1/2002, 11:31 am
by Susan
Yeah. It's out to hurt me.
My mom's letting have temp. ownership of her Takamine acoustic she hasn't played in a long time! Joy!
Posted: 6/1/2002, 12:14 pm
by Spiral Out
Well, I took my guitar into the shop, and it turns out it wasnt my fault I couldnt tune it, the springs to hold the floating bridge were installed wrong, so i had no chance of getting the strings i use on it.
*phew*
I scored a bunch more springs and tossed em all in there to make the bridge so tight that its basically fixed in place now, so its tunable, just no wammy bar anymore. (not that I used it anyways)