breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
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JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
If you can't find any burs, try swapping the saddle with another.
If you can't find any burs, try swapping the saddle with another.
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
I've not broken a string on my EJ yet. I am pretty heavy handed.
So, here's my trick. Swap the saddle from the A string with the D string's sadddle. You'll know pretty quick if it was the saddle or your heavy handedness.
Other than that, how do you like it? What color did you get? I love mine and I'm not a strat guy. Do you use the trem or just leave it alone?
I've not broken a string on my EJ yet. I am pretty heavy handed.
So, here's my trick. Swap the saddle from the A string with the D string's sadddle. You'll know pretty quick if it was the saddle or your heavy handedness.
Other than that, how do you like it? What color did you get? I love mine and I'm not a strat guy. Do you use the trem or just leave it alone?
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
Why would you assume I read your posts? :banana: :laugh2: I rarely get to page 2 before I have to throw my two cents in.
Good call
Why would you assume I read your posts? :banana: :laugh2: I rarely get to page 2 before I have to throw my two cents in.
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
I was actually glad somebody else tries crap like that
:laugh2:
I was actually glad somebody else tries crap like that
Boogie Bill
New member
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
Nothing wrong with trying a little lube like the Big Bend's Nut Sauce--it's workd really well for me on a couple of bridge saddles.
Bill
Nothing wrong with trying a little lube like the Big Bend's Nut Sauce--it's workd really well for me on a couple of bridge saddles.
Bill
tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
thanks guys ... i will be working on it this weekend (after i help my son with his science fair experiment and redline a process and procedures document and do all the other 'honey do' items) ... i will do the q tip trick and see about swapping a saddle .. the thing is that i will have to wait to see if i break a string over the next few weeks ... if an A string breaks, that would certainly point to the saddle ... if a D string breaks, that is gonna point to my technique ... so we'll see
scott, i got the 2 tone burst ... i wanted red or black ... but when i played all 5 of the ones at the shop, this one sounded and felt best ... i like it alot ... i use it on at least half of our tunes - blends well with the other guitarists 70's SG ... the neck is perfect for my hands and i have no problem with 'stickiness' that some guys complain about ... i am still twiddlin with the pup heights, searching for maximum 'quack' and minimimzed 'strat-itis' ...
thanks for all the help folks - will report back when i know more
t4d
thanks guys ... i will be working on it this weekend (after i help my son with his science fair experiment and redline a process and procedures document and do all the other 'honey do' items) ... i will do the q tip trick and see about swapping a saddle .. the thing is that i will have to wait to see if i break a string over the next few weeks ... if an A string breaks, that would certainly point to the saddle ... if a D string breaks, that is gonna point to my technique ... so we'll see
scott, i got the 2 tone burst ... i wanted red or black ... but when i played all 5 of the ones at the shop, this one sounded and felt best ... i like it alot ... i use it on at least half of our tunes - blends well with the other guitarists 70's SG ... the neck is perfect for my hands and i have no problem with 'stickiness' that some guys complain about ... i am still twiddlin with the pup heights, searching for maximum 'quack' and minimimzed 'strat-itis' ...
thanks for all the help folks - will report back when i know more
t4d
kevlar3000
Bullet Proof Toneologist
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
Just oil the sucker, no need to change the saddle, unless you see damage. It has cured my probs completely, I bend the shizzle out of em....
Just oil the sucker, no need to change the saddle, unless you see damage. It has cured my probs completely, I bend the shizzle out of em....
Bludave
New member
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
The tone of the guitars IMHO gets a little warmer (and some Strats are to bright so thats a good thing). I have these on 2 of my 5 Teles, all 4 of my Strats, both Les Pauls and my 335. I have a few guitars that I have not had to much trouble breaking strings on so I have not had any reason to change them out, but after an hour or so you won't even notice it. Try all the other cleaning and polishing first. With a nice Strat like that you should be ablr to get by without breaking strings. In my case I couldn't. The Graphite works well for me.
The tone of the guitars IMHO gets a little warmer (and some Strats are to bright so thats a good thing). I have these on 2 of my 5 Teles, all 4 of my Strats, both Les Pauls and my 335. I have a few guitars that I have not had to much trouble breaking strings on so I have not had any reason to change them out, but after an hour or so you won't even notice it. Try all the other cleaning and polishing first. With a nice Strat like that you should be ablr to get by without breaking strings. In my case I couldn't. The Graphite works well for me.
C-Martin
New member
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
this is a interesting thread, ill have to try the lube thing.. i break strings all the time... tho i never break the unwound ones or VERY rarely... just the big wound ones.. mostly the big E (about once a week... maybe two if im lucky :eek13.. its kinda odd :laugh2: i fixed my problems with 11-52's they stil break but much less than the 9 and 10 ive tried before.. i tried changing the saddle or even teh whole bridge ones to a wilkinson tremolo (tho that was more for tuning stability for using the bar) i switched it back cuz it seemed to change the tone in a bad way for me... maybe the block was brass i never realy checked... stil wuold break strings anyhow and then i tried bigger strings for resistance and tonal preference and it helped alot
this is a interesting thread, ill have to try the lube thing.. i break strings all the time... tho i never break the unwound ones or VERY rarely... just the big wound ones.. mostly the big E (about once a week... maybe two if im lucky :eek13
.. its kinda odd :laugh2: i fixed my problems with 11-52's they stil break but much less than the 9 and 10 ive tried before.. i tried changing the saddle or even teh whole bridge ones to a wilkinson tremolo (tho that was more for tuning stability for using the bar) i switched it back cuz it seemed to change the tone in a bad way for me... maybe the block was brass i never realy checked... stil wuold break strings anyhow and then i tried bigger strings for resistance and tonal preference and it helped alot
tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: breakin strings on my EJ strat - help?
so far, no burrs .. i got a magnifying glass and a q tip ... smooth as a baby's butt ... i did confirm that the core of the wound string broke right at the saddle point, not at the 'angle break' where it comes out from the bridge plate and up through the saddle (although those angles do look a little 'pinched' - i might get some of that little surgical tubing that SRV used) ... so i strung it back up and used a little lube .. i switched to "light top - normal bottom" strings too ... these are 3 unwound strings from a 9 gauge set and 3 wound strings from a 10 gauge set ... maybe this'll help too ... i already like how they sound and feel better than a straight set of 9s ..i have been a 10s player my whole life but 10s felt a bit too stiff on the EJ strat .. if this works, it'll be a good compromise
more as i learn it
thanks again for all the advice
t4d
so far, no burrs .. i got a magnifying glass and a q tip ... smooth as a baby's butt ... i did confirm that the core of the wound string broke right at the saddle point, not at the 'angle break' where it comes out from the bridge plate and up through the saddle (although those angles do look a little 'pinched' - i might get some of that little surgical tubing that SRV used) ... so i strung it back up and used a little lube .. i switched to "light top - normal bottom" strings too ... these are 3 unwound strings from a 9 gauge set and 3 wound strings from a 10 gauge set ... maybe this'll help too ... i already like how they sound and feel better than a straight set of 9s ..i have been a 10s player my whole life but 10s felt a bit too stiff on the EJ strat .. if this works, it'll be a good compromise
more as i learn it
thanks again for all the advice
t4d
