...not even sure how that happened. It ended up just long enough to touch the peg... The old d-string sounds completely different in contrast to the new strings. Good thing is that these are just regular rotosound so not a huge loss I guess, I'll keep the 3 good strings for spares, and put a new set on. Funny thing though, the only string that ever broke on me was D string, so that is not a particularly useful spares set. Oh well just venting, not looking for any advises.