Can a snapped string pop a hole in your cornea?

[Simon_F]

Re: Can a snapped string pop a hole in your cornea?

I think your more likely to get hit by a bus crossing the street.

This is why I always tune my guitar BEFORE I cross the street.

 

[sosomething]

Re: Can a snapped string pop a hole in your cornea?

I've always lived in fear of a popped string while tuning going like a devil ray and the end of it hitting my eyeball. You physics guys- is this possible?
On a side note, if I were to tally all the times the end of a string drew blood from a finger over the last 30 years, mostly at the headstock, I'd say its easily 50 times or more ..in fact, I stepped on a string on the floor last night and it stuck in my foot near the toe, and it hurt like hell for a little while.

Totally +1 to all of this, especially the poked-fingers part.

 

[jalguitarman]

Re: Can a snapped string pop a hole in your cornea?

That's what I'm wondering.... I don't think I've ever broken a string while tuning a guitar....

I have had a couple snap, usually the high E, that's why I tune those very slow anymore.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Can a snapped string pop a hole in your cornea?

I stepped on a string on the floor last night and it stuck in my foot near the toe, and it hurt like hell for a little while.

I've had that happen to me a couple of times. It does hurt like hell.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Can a snapped string pop a hole in your cornea?

Look at it logically. Your guitar string is kept under tension . . . the forces involved are pulling on the string very hard towards the bridge and the nut. The string might coil up / twist a bit as it flies loose, but even if it does . . . in normal playing position your head is kept more or less perpendicular to the force released when the string breaks. Unless you moved your head very close to the vibrating strings, or were holding the guitar in a strange reason (sticking your head near the nut or the bridge) it should be pretty close to impossible to hit your eyeball with a snapping string.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Can a snapped string pop a hole in your cornea?

or you have a big belly that tilts your guitar

 

[Varg]

Re: Can a snapped string pop a hole in your cornea?

I know a pal who had a violin string pop and give him a scar on his face.

That's what he gets for playing a violin, shoulda went with the Les Paul. :1:

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Can a snapped string pop a hole in your cornea?

or you have a big belly that tilts your guitar

Well, the doctors do say that being overweight can be bad for your health . . .