Does boiling your strings make the pot unusable to cook?

[IbanezJ359]

Yes it puts qll the yucky gross stuff on your strings on to the pot

 

[alder]

That depends on what kind of music you play.

( And now the troublemaker steps back to watch )

 

[AJ78bass]

This thread got me thinking... instead of throwing out those worn-out guitar picks, maybe I could get them re-capped like they used to do on car tires and still do on large truck tires?

I could bring the pick cores into a shop and have them refurbished and recapped instead of buying new ones.

 

[TerriblePeril]

I used to boil my strings. A much faster method (though for *rust* I'd steer towards new strings) is to detune a few turns and pop them furiously for a few minutes.

First saw this method in a vid by Janek Gwizdala and by golly for rounds without TOO much DNA on them, it works like heck.

 

[5StringBlues]

Boiling strings works, but when they go dead again, they are DEAD-DEAD!


Did it once in the 80's. Once.

 

[Fat Freddy]

EVERY answer that I came up with in my.....errrrrm......"overtired" state has been used

 

[Killed_by_Death]

which hot sauce is second best... Frank’s Red Hot reigns

I prefer my chili pepper sauce to be served at room temperature & Frank's is mostly vinegar.

Try some real Sriracha sauce if there's an Asian supermarket near you:

I never get tired of telling folks that I used to work in the town where Sriracha sauce was invented:

 

[5StringBlues]

Sriracha racha racha want!?!?

 

[AJ78bass]

I prefer my chili pepper sauce to be served at room temperature & Frank's is mostly vinegar.

Try some real Sriracha sauce if there's an Asian supermarket near you:

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I never get tired of telling folks that I used to work in the town where Sriracha sauce was invented:

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(String boiling thread highjacked)

I would not argue there aren’t better / more exotic sauces out there (I dig Sriracha!) but in Buffalo Frank’s is the ubiquitous sauce used on the wings and chicken fingers, etc. they sell it by the gallon.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I've been using ghost chili powder for our spicy wings.

on topic: I've never boiled strings or used anything to clean them.
I've got three sets of strings waiting to be put on, that's what happens when you insist they throw in some new strings every time you buy a bass, LOL!

 

[Wooly John]

- if you are concerned, go to a thrift store or yard sale and buy an old dented pot for a buck and make it your deditcated string boiling pot.

 

[Fender_Bender]

It wouldn’t bother your pot. Not unless you put in a ton of vinegar and boiled them for a week. I did boil strings one time when they were much more expensive than today. It did do what it’s supposed to, but I felt that the strings felt stiffer somehow. Get new strings, even if they are store brand.

 

[madbass6]

This has been stuck in my head for such a long time. My strings are getting a rusty color, and having a very dull sound, and I want to boil them, but I heard that after boiling the strings, your dead skin cells and all of that dirt would get stuck on the pot making it unusable to cook food with. Is this true?

Sincerely
- A new bass player[/QUOTE
just pick up a used pot at a thrift shop or somewhere and only use it for boiling your strings !
or just replace them.

 

[Knavery]

You've got to be really poor not to buy new strings.

 

[JohnnyBottom]

Best way to clean your strings...
hold ball end in one hand, hold silk end in other hand and do the fort night floss dance.
Then wipe then down with these...
DUDE Wipes

 

[74hc]

Only if your strings are radioactive.

 

[jnuts1]

This has been stuck in my head for such a long time. My strings are getting a rusty color, and having a very dull sound, and I want to boil them, but I heard that after boiling the strings, your dead skin cells and all of that dirt would get stuck on the pot making it unusable to cook food with. Is this true?

Sincerely
- A new bass player

no. you probably cook animal skin in those things all the time. split pea soup? throw that pot out it had pig in it!!!!

but seriously you will have some zing in those strings for about 20 minutes. boiling is a huge let down and waste of time if you ask me.

 

[Copperhead]

Not unless you are allergic to your own DNA.
Seriously, I have a formula shared with me aeons ago by a guitarist. 1/2 Naptha, 1/2 three in one oil. It works. I just used some today and revived a seriously thunky E string. Did 'em all of course.
Put a little on a cloth, loosen the string and run up and down it pinched between your fingers. You will be amazed.
Oh and stop eating a Big Mac while you practice.

 

[Marley's Ghost]

Which pot is best for metal?

 

[trevcda]

First thing I'd want to find out would be why my strings are rusting. Seriously, there's a moisture issue at play here! Strings don't rust when your bass is properly cared for.

Second; wash your hands! Nothing will extend the life of your strings longer than keeping your hands clean.

Lastly and addressing the topic at hand- no, the won't be unusable. But a little anecdote to put my perspective on it: when me and my brother were around six or seven, we found some baby birds that had fallen out of the nest. We knew they had to be fed and we knew that birds ate bugs. So we rounded up sizeable batch of grasshoppers and tossed them in mom's blender and took them for a spin. Probably had to add some milk or something to get them to liquefy enough to feed the birds. Long story short, the birds died. We cleaned that blender seven ways to Sunday and it was spotless. But damned if my mom could make my brother or I ever eat anything that came out of that blender again! I replaced her blender with one of my first paychecks from my first job and don't think she knows to this day.

Go to a thrift shop and buy a cheap sauce pan with a lid specifically for cleaning. I've mixed up any number of caustic cleaning solutions and while it will get another day or two out of dirty strings, as mentioned above, the die way deader than before you cleaned them. And doing this prematurely will drastically shorten the life of a perfectly good set.