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01-30-2008, 06:05 PM
| | | | new strings, no wirecutter, in need of advice.
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Well I got some nice D'addario flats about an hour ago and am dyyying to play them, but my wirecutter got tossed after the house got flooded since it rusted. Is there anything around the house i could use that would cut it, or maybe burning them to weaken it? I might end up waiting it out and borrow a cutter from school, but just looking for options. |
01-30-2008, 06:58 PM
| | | | Vise-grips should have a "bolt cutter". So should pliers, but pliers won't generally cut so good.
Tin snips.
Dremel. |
01-30-2008, 07:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: St. Louis, MO, U.S. | | | You got teeth, don't you?
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01-30-2008, 07:53 PM
| | | Nail clippers should also do the trick...and if all else fails, string cutters are 13 bucks at geetar center  |
01-30-2008, 07:59 PM
|  | Vinny Boombats | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto Ontario, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lemur821  You got teeth, don't you? | LOL, Burn them so they weaken, dude your kidding right?
seriously you can purchase a small cheapy cheap side cutters (snips, wire cutters) for a buck at any dollar store.
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01-30-2008, 09:13 PM
|  | Running With Scissors since 1964 | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Michigan's U.P. | | | Wait and do it right.
Buy some string cutters or go to the local hardware store and spend 15 bucks on a new pair of side cutter pliers.
Or borrow the cutter from school, but do it right, you'll be glad you did.
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01-30-2008, 09:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tasmania, Australia | | | do it right! +1 but U can do it right with decent pliers with wire cutter built in or similar...no teeth ;-) & NO BURNING.bass strings aint cheap & U don't wanna wreck 'em B4 even using em???
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01-31-2008, 05:15 PM
| | | | i came to my senses and waited it out, and glad i did. Strings sound 10x better then my last ones, and theyll only get better as i break em in. |
01-31-2008, 05:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Cleveland, OH | | | You should have burned them. If you had, you would've been playing yesterday. |
01-31-2008, 06:54 PM
| | | | i swear i was considering it, the stock strings were unbearably bad, i could not listen to it. |
01-31-2008, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by kevinmoore73 You should have burned them. If you had, you would've been playing yesterday. |
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01-31-2008, 09:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Chicago | | | you can bend them back and forth till the metal breaks. |
01-31-2008, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Chaska,MN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 69nites you can bend them back and forth till the metal breaks. | ya just crease them and that might work. don't use scissors though. I made that mistake once.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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