how long do you guys keep your strings on your guitars
untill you replace them that is

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Well its not a good habit to get into and its not recommended but I usually have my strings on my guitars about 2-2 and a half months before I replace them. Most people that I talk to replace them about every 3 weeks to a month. But I'm cheap and I don't like replacing my strings so it sorta gets set aside.

man you are cheap joke
no but seriously every 3 weeks i cant afford that all the time
normally i keep my strings on for ages but i wanna start getting into the habbit of replacing them when needed
what do you use to clean the strings ive heard of using bore oil or somethin
or ghs fastfret does any of that shit help them to last longer

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That was by far the best thing I read all day

And in regards to the question part of your post I don't know I can never find anything to make the strings last longer...but then again I've never really looked. I'm sure the question has come up somewhere in the forum before.

this isn't of much help, but i have heard of people removing and boiling their strings to clean them and then putting them back on. it seems ridiculous to me, considering that strings are pretty cheap. i suppose if you're a bassist with some really high-end strings it might make sense, but it still seems like a lot of work. plus, it seems like it would be really hard to re-string after you've already snipped the ends of the strings once.

till they get little bits of rust on them or black gunk on them or a broken string. 2-3 months id say

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eddie van halen does it ive heard

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I restring 5 strings every 3 weeks I'm tuned to drop a . And the low a is a .70. It takes awhile before that fucker is worn out

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I use DR coated strings and they last a month. Normal strings last 2 weeks. I wouldn't use DR coated strings on a guitar without EMG though. The strings need to be grounded with passive pups.

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cool thanks for the tip
are they available any guitar shop

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I hope so, but make sure you get the coated ones. I have been using the Black coated ones for like 3 years now. I got acid hands so uncoated string rust up fast on me even with constant cleaning. The coated DR string last me twice as long and still sound and play good when I take them off. I'm just freaked out about having them on any longer then a month is all. I also use EMGs with them. No ground. I don't know how they might sound with passives.

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it kinda depends, when i still had plenty of money, i changed bout every 2 to 3 weeks, until i didnt like the tone or feel of em.

nowadays, i use my strings for a month or 2, mainly cuz i dont have the money to spend on new strings each time

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same here

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i will do thanks..
i dont use EMG's so yeah it might sound a bit

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Last time I changed strings to my Jackson was at June. It has a Floyd, so I put the whole string to the guitar and left the ball end in the headstock. They are wound to balls in there. I use GHS FastFret every day and the strings feel like new. If and when a string breaks, I just loosen it a bit from the tuning peg and tighten the end to the Floyd. Saves money like a fukker.

arent you sposed to use that fast fret every time youve fineshed playing the guitar cuz the sweat from your fingers is gonna make it drty as fukk

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Yeah man. I use it before and after playing, 'cos it keeps the strings clean as fukk

nice

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I never use that kind of stuff on my strings. I just use a cloth and wipe the strings off

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keep um til they break or until they have absolutely no tone

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im a cheap ass, so whenever they break .
when they have no tone i just put some GHS fast fret on them, then they sound right as rain

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I change my strings everytime I want to record. Dunlop UltraGlide 65 is pretty good for cleaning the strings.

+1. I probably have the same strings, and am tuned to drop A and B. GHS Zakk lo tune right? I could barely fit the .70 through the string hole in the tuning machine. br00t3l.

I bought some Dean Markley blue steels 52-11 guage for D though, I'm done with playing Nile and Amom Amarth, for now at least.

It all depends how long the string sounds and feels good. If I start to feel that the tension is way too little then I'll get new ones. My strings are currently fine but I just want to tune higher for the time being. I never break strings and they never get dirty and I play a lot, if you do you shouldn't bash your strings like a monkey and wash your hands more often, you dirty bastard!

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I don't know if anyone else felt this. But everytime I change my strings they don't sound too good. Especially the low E string. They always sound better two days later. Maybe my guitar has to get used to the strings.

I use a different set of strings. I usually buy a pack of DR 10-46 strings. Than discard the high E string. String it up like usual and buy an extra .70 for the low A. So it becomes sort of an custom gauge .13-.70 stringset And i never get tiren of drop A tuning. You can fuck around alot with that dropped A string. But at the moment I have 2 guitars. A jackson RR-3 and a RR-1 the RR-1 is in C# with DR .10-.52 and the RR-3 is in Drop A. Both with a dimario X2n in the bridge and a invader in the neck.

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What kind of strings do you use?

I hardly ever change strings, they just dont get dirty. And im a bum and quite poor. But i never see a need unless theyre dirty or broken of course, and that is after a while...im talking 9 months or something. I have weird hands, they never sweat...is there something wrong with me??

thats a miracle

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