How often do you change your guitar strings?

[Norman_T]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

What!!!!! You mean you can change strings on these things? I jusy always buy another guitar when I break a string or when they start going dead.

Cheapskate!!

[HolyDirt]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

wow, a lot of you guys spend MASS amounts of money of strings!!! i change mine every 2-3 months, and thats when they JUST being to start sounding bad

[JOLLY]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

Cheapskate!!

You've figured me out

[Pandemonium]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

As soon as the intonation sounds a little off.

[Zeppelinfan8790]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

I change strings right before a gig. Haven't had a gig since Halloween. So now I only change strings when I break one. And when I change pickups I use the same strings. I'm too cheap to buy alot so I buy 12 packs at a time and they usually last a long time.

Chris

[BluesNRock87]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

i use DR. pure blues .010 for electric and the top martin (msp, the red and black box) .012 for acoustic (wound g)

i change whenever i bust a string, or every 2 months, whichever comes first. also if i have a gig (ive had 1 so far thisn year, 4 all last year) i will change the strings IF they HAVENT been changed in 2 weeks. that way the have tone and durability...

[mmguz]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

3 or 4 months

[texasguitarslinger]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

I change them whenever I start to see the A chord shadow at the 2nd fret on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th strings.

[Bludave]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

I have a lot of guitars, so I really can't say exactly. What I do is keep a little pad in the case with each guitar listing the date I last changed strings, setup etc.. But when I gig I change the strings 2 days before. I also use Graphtech saddles on most of my guitars, so I never break strings. I use a slightly heavier string than normal (D'addario 11's) so I get good sound over a longer period of time. Bottom line I think you should be able to get 48 hours of playing time before they need to be changed. Some people sweat a lot and that can kill the strings real fast.

[Ken]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

I'm on about the same rotation as Zerb and Gunner.


However, if it's a slow day at work I've been known to whip my axe out and start tweaking it in...I need to file the nut since I've changed guages but the thing is buttah.

[Rich_T]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

every two weeks generally. i hit my strings real hard, and they die on me alot. my les paul makes my g string give me bell tones after not long at all, i think there might be a problem with the bridge.

[bloodswords]

Re: How often do you change your guitar strings?

i'm currently playing DR coated strings & they'll last me >8 weeks...