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― Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 2 August 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What happened to this board, I always loved it...

Who was moderating it anyway?

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 2 August 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, where did it go? is this it?

ive been playing my strat with only 5 strings, sans high e, for about a year now yup

― kephm, Monday, 2 August 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

oh duh, the gtr board never went anywhere, it's just that this is the only thread in New Answers, duh

― kephm, Monday, 2 August 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, where did it go? is this it?
ive been playing my strat with only 5 strings, sans high e, for about a year now yup

Time to get new strings, I think.

― Richard K (Richard K), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but guitar players are too busy playing their guitars to post about them.

That, and we're illiterate. ;-)

I have been loving my Jazzmaster. Yes, I have.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Time to get new strings, I think.

not a chance

― kephm, Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Boil strings, don't change them!

(or is that only for bass.)

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 13 August 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

how does one boil strings? thats just crazy talk

― kephm, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You take the strings off your bass, put them in a pot with some soapy water, and you boil them for about five minutes. They come out shiny and clean! It works! Really! The detergent cleans the dirt off, the heat refreshes the metal and makes it springy again or something like that.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Cleans the dirt off, but doesn't make the metal sproingy again -- so you'll sound better, but are still at risk of the tuning and breakage problems caused by old strings.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Boiling bass strings does work. Use 1 part white vinegar to 3 parts water and boil them up.

The vinegar will take the black carbon crud right off of the strings. It isn't like a new set, but it does bring back the high end ring of the sound which fades once they get cruddy.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Just buy a new pack you fuckin weirdos.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 27 August 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Good bass strings are $20 bucks a pop chester.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I know this.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i need a bass first

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, vinegar is a good idea. I might just try that, as I might have call to dust off my old bass soon!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

In Simon Reynolds' postpunk book, it mentioned that Jah Wobble preferred to used old strings on his bass specifically because they had no twang.

― naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

when i saw damien jurado play a few years ago, he claimed he had just changed the guitar strings on his acoustic for the first time in 'about 6 years'. i'm the same way, i like my acoustic guitars to sound dull

― 6335 (6335), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

fuck taht. ringtones motherfucker

― XD (eman), Friday, 7 July 2006 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

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