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07-30-2011, 10:19 PM
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When you live on a small island, stuff like this matters....
Do you have suggestions or stories about uses for old strings?
I'm not gonna boil them, and I'm not going to keep them as spares, but I have about three sets' worth sitting on my dresser that have been waiting for inspiration. My fiancee- the Japanese-American Martha Stewart- hasn't come up with anything either.
Ideas?
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Originally Posted by BullHorn  Guitars should pew pew pew on top while the bass is boom boom booming on the bottom. | |
07-30-2011, 10:36 PM
|  | Love those bridge cables! | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Dallas, TX | | | Keep one under your pillow in case you have an intruder and use it to choke them out.
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07-30-2011, 10:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Lawton, OK / Ruston, LA | | | Soak them in a container of denatured alcohol and then give them away on craigslist. Someone will appreciate a set of refurbished strings. |
07-30-2011, 10:46 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | I chucked one in a hacksaw frame- rounds cut soft material nicely, and in any direction. I intended to file nuts w/it but it doesn't offer much control.
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07-31-2011, 09:36 AM
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07-31-2011, 10:24 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | one of the guys i work with uses them for building warhammer figurine armitures |
07-31-2011, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by PBnJBassist Keep one under your pillow in case you have an intruder and use it to choke them out. | Yeah, attach an A string to two wood handles. |
08-18-2011, 11:49 AM
| | | | Ball ends..Beads..Jewelry , Mouth bow, diddley bow, temporary repair of front brake cable on bicycle. Use them for that "motown" sound... |
08-18-2011, 12:01 PM
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08-18-2011, 12:03 PM
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08-18-2011, 08:50 PM
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08-18-2011, 08:54 PM
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08-18-2011, 10:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Stamford, CT | | Dang you guys are hardcore. Make a bracelet or necklace  |
08-18-2011, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Solarmist That's just too cool lookin' - it's art! | $9,999.99... OBO!  |
08-19-2011, 05:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Rochester, NY | | | Connect two end to end and use to grow hops. |
08-26-2011, 10:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Maui, HI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Solarmist That's just too cool lookin' - it's art! | Agreed!
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Originally Posted by BullHorn Guitars should pew pew pew on top while the bass is boom boom booming on the bottom. | |
08-27-2011, 06:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Racine, Wisconsin | | | I have made fishing leaders out of them before. If you go after toothy fish and you don't want to pay for braided steel they work ok |
08-27-2011, 08:54 PM
| | | | Attach 4 or more to good sturdy handle and use em as a whip?
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08-27-2011, 11:32 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | | | | I donate my old strings to local junior high and high school jazz bands. Believe me they need them! Most of the time they don't know when to replace them or how to properly set up a bass so I help them with that also.
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08-28-2011, 09:06 AM
|  | Billy K Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: North Bay Marin | | | I just got a cool bracelet made from 5 e strings wound around a 6 string guitar B string then I think they soldered the ends to a silver cap. It has been admired by many mostly chicks.Everybody ask what it is.They make them out in Point Reyes in west Marin
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