A bent string, is a spent string.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 25 Apr 2003 11:24 am

You guys are all 'closet counters of the third string'.......

RR
(Couldn't that be a movie?)[This message was edited by Roger Rettig on 25 April 2003 at 08:38 PM.]

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 25 Apr 2003 12:57 pm

Ernest, your third string is thinner than the others!

Larry Miller · Post by **Larry Miller** » 6 Jul 2003 7:18 am

I recently bent a string, and it played perfectly.

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 6 Jul 2003 8:00 am

My 3rd string is too fat. I have to put it on a diet.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » 6 Jul 2003 10:38 am

I stopped breaking them as soon as I stopped using the B-pedal.
I feel so Lucky!

Mike Meese · Post by **Mike Meese** » 6 Jul 2003 11:16 pm

Where did Shannon ever get to?

John Borchard · Post by **John Borchard** » 15 Jul 2003 7:22 am

I just use a .072 for the third string. You need a tire iron to tune it to G#, but once it's there, it's not going anywhere.

John Borchard[This message was edited by John Borchard on 16 July 2003 at 06:05 AM.]

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 2 Nov 2003 11:54 am

Never mind. I fixed it.[This message was edited by Earnest Bovine on 02 November 2003 at 12:17 PM.]

Larry Miller · Post by **Larry Miller** » 2 Nov 2003 12:27 pm

Doug, please tell us what you did to remedy the situation, so the rest of us don't have to needlessly suffer.

chas smith · Post by **chas smith** » 2 Nov 2003 12:48 pm

Suffering is important and helps to build character, so in that regard, none of it is needless.

As I've mentioned so many times before, if you stretch the 3rd string and use dental floss to hang cockroaches or dead flies from it, it becomes an entymological form of chi chi balls.

Mark Herrick · Post by **Mark Herrick** » 2 Nov 2003 1:27 pm

Does it count if I get bent but the 3rd string doesn't?

chas smith · Post by **chas smith** » 2 Nov 2003 4:51 pm

Only if the bent is a bent over......

John Davis · Post by **John Davis** » 6 Nov 2003 12:48 am

Earnest, Here in the UK we have an instruction book left by an American service man called Mr,Rednecks guide to tips and tuning for steel guitar (I am fortunate to own a copy) the section 43 deal;s with the third string the advice is 1. Boil the string in goats wee ,then leave to dry at room temperature, I am not sure how this adds to the strengnth of the string but the footnote says Don`t floss with it use a 22wound

Larry Miller · Post by **Larry Miller** » 5 Aug 2006 7:16 am

I just put a new 3rd string on, and I have found that when I put it through the hole in the tuning key and turn it....it becomes bent.

Mike Wheeler · Post by **Mike Wheeler** » 5 Aug 2006 9:06 am

Well, maybe you should consult a professional...you could break something!!

John Groover McDuffie · Post by **John Groover McDuffie** » 7 Aug 2006 7:19 pm

You could try what I did today - nothing.

I was doing a down-&-dirty session today and the culprit broke halfway through the 2nd to last song. Since we never stop to fix anything anyway I just kept playing. After that song, I asked the producer if he wanted to wait while I changed it, we agreed to just finish the date with the remaining 9.