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1 to 2 times
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08-16-2009, 08:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Denmark | | | How many times would you clean a set of roundswounds before buying a new set?
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I have been cleaning my set of DR Hi-beams in denatured alcohol 2 times now, and both times they've sounded as good as new!! I was wondering if you can just keep doing this instead of buying new sets? Alot of money to be saved! But do they keep sounding as fresh and new everytime you do it? |
08-16-2009, 08:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Plymouth, MA | | | I would replace them when cleaning them doesn't restore them to the sound I like. Some people like them to sound a little less bright and leave them on for quite a while.
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08-16-2009, 08:50 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Denver, Colorado | | | I usually get a couple of cleanings in before they start to get dented up and otherwise mangled from the frets. Once the intonation gets strange, they're goners. |
08-16-2009, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by nonrappingJZ  I usually get a couple of cleanings in before they start to get dented up and otherwise mangled from the frets. Once the intonation gets strange, they're goners. | Ditto. Usually after the 3rd or 4th bath the intonation goes south.
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11-10-2010, 12:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Denmark | | Thought I'd bump this thread, I'd like to see if anyone still has an opinion on this  |
11-10-2010, 12:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | Zero. I buy new strings. Never been one to cook them back to life. |
11-10-2010, 12:22 PM
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11-10-2010, 12:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NJ via NYC | | | Never, I'm a "one and done" kind of guy.
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11-10-2010, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by T-MOST Never, I'm a "one and done" kind of guy. | same here! |
11-10-2010, 12:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pennsylvania | | | I dip them in the moonshine as many times as I can until they start going dead really fast. |
11-10-2010, 01:04 PM
|  | a/k/a Steve Cooper | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Huntington WV | | | I've just gotten clued to the alcohol soak, so I'm on the second soaking of a set of stainless roundwounds--the first set I've tried this on.
I'll replace them when the indendations from frets get real pronounced. I play slap a lot, so that beats the strings up pretty quickly.
The added lifespan after the first soaking was impressive! |
11-10-2010, 01:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by T-MOST Never, I'm a "one and done" kind of guy. | I agree. When I feel it's time to change strings, they're changed for good.
How often I change them depends on many factors, but usually averages out to once a month for my main player, and bimonthly for my others.
At one point, when I played lead six-string for a goth-rock outfit, I changed my strings after every gig and every practice - but that was because I was slicing across the strings with a steel pick, and there were visible chunks taken out of them by the end of the night!
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11-10-2010, 01:20 PM
| | | | I boil'em in a little soap and alcohol. Makes'em sound brand new. |
11-10-2010, 01:28 PM
|  | Let's play! | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indy | | | Don't clean 'em. The funk is in the gunk.
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11-10-2010, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Winnb I boil'em in a little soap and alcohol. Makes'em sound brand new. | That regiment is scary on many levels.
Boiling in vinegar works very well, even diluted vinegar with water. But the silk goes to ****.
Soap? OK, but only with a finish boil in some rinse agent, then rinsed again.
Alcohol? Are you aware of a term that culminates with "flash point"?  |
11-10-2010, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by mrjim123 Don't clean 'em. The funk is in the gunk. | +1 |
11-10-2010, 01:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Purple Mountain Majesties | | | On this point, I am curious:
I understand that every time you relax a string and then take it back to full tension, you rob its life expectancy and tone.
Anyone have a ball park as to how many times you can relax a string for a change or cleaning, then re-install and tune to full tension before you have robbed the string of tone and shortened its life?
Someone once told me three times and you've pretty much killed the string, it will never sound even remotely close to new again.
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11-10-2010, 02:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Durham, NC | | | Man, I can't even remember the last time I changed my strings.
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11-10-2010, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by SteveC Zero. I buy new strings... | This ^^^^
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Originally Posted by nonrappingJZ ...they start to get dented up and otherwise mangled from the frets... | |
11-10-2010, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Plstrns That regiment is scary on many levels.
Boiling in vinegar works very well, even diluted vinegar with water. But the silk goes to ****.
Soap? OK, but only with a finish boil in some rinse agent, then rinsed again.
Alcohol? Are you aware of a term that culminates with "flash point"? | This.
Or you can just buy denatured alcohol, soak for 24 hours, and worry less about how heat is potentially damaging the structural integrity of the metal and how a solution containing 24% water is considerably less likely to rust than 100% water.
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