Eucerin Skin Cream Kills Strings DEAD!!!

[KenB]

Jimmy, you are THE MAN!

Yesterday I picked up some of the Eucerin Original Healing Creme (red cap).

I play a JMJ Mustang with D'Addario Chromes flats. I've been playing the Chromes for about eight months. The E string died pretty quickly, and the D and G mellowed nicely a couple of months ago. But the darned A string sounded almost as bright and zingy as new. That A just wouldn't die, and the persistent mismatch was driving me nuts!

So last night I treated just the A string with the Eucerin. WOW, magic!
If anything, the single treatment dulled the A just a hair more than the rest of the set. But overall, the strings are nicely balanced now.

I was concerned that the Eucerin might cause a difference in appearance or feel of the single treated string, but the four strings look and feel the same.

Two questions...

Have you found any way to partially reverse the effect of the Eucerin, in case one or more of the strings gets too thumpy?

And what in the heck led you to think of using hand cream to deaden bass strings in the first place? I mean, Eucerin is a really elegant solution. It's effective, clean, sanitary and non-destructive, and the preservatives in it should ensure that the oils and waxes under the windings don't deteriorate and cause corrosion.

Thanks again for the great idea!

 

[Texican]

And what in the heck led you to think of using hand cream to deaden bass strings in the first place? I mean, Eucerin is a really elegant solution.

Jimmy is fancy like that.

I’m thinking about using a pumpkin spice lotion until the end of November, and then switching to cinnamon pine to usher in the Yuletide spirit.

 

[JimmyM]

Jimmy, you are THE MAN!

Yesterday I picked up some of the Eucerin Original Healing Creme (red cap).

I play a JMJ Mustang with D'Addario Chromes flats. I've been playing the Chromes for about eight months. The E string died pretty quickly, and the D and G mellowed nicely a couple of months ago. But the darned A string sounded almost as bright and zingy as new. That A just wouldn't die, and the persistent mismatch was driving me nuts!

So last night I treated just the A string with the Eucerin. WOW, magic!
If anything, the single treatment dulled the A just a hair more than the rest of the set. But overall, the strings are nicely balanced now.

I was concerned that the Eucerin might cause a difference in appearance or feel of the single treated string, but the four strings look and feel the same.

Two questions...

Have you found any way to partially reverse the effect of the Eucerin, in case one or more of the strings gets too thumpy?

And what in the heck led you to think of using hand cream to deaden bass strings in the first place? I mean, Eucerin is a really elegant solution. It's effective, clean, sanitary and non-destructive, and the preservatives in it should ensure that the oils and waxes under the windings don't deteriorate and cause corrosion.

Thanks again for the great idea!

1. I've tried two things that have had some limited success in cleaning up dead strings and giving them a little more life....alcohol and Deoxit. I don't know if they'll work to clean out Eucerin, but I've put both on a cloth and wiped down a roundwound before and gotten a little more zing out of them.

2. What led me to trying it was having bad skin and noticing that my strings were going more dead more quickly once I started using it.

 

[Wfrance3]

FWIW, I killed a set of DR Black Beauties with Pledge Orange Oil. I was looking around the house for something to clean my fretboard whilst doing a string change. The pledge cleaner was fine in that capacity, with the strings off. I threw that same rag in my gig bag. A few days later, I wiped down my strings and bass with it after playing and the next day, all the new string zing was gone. I did crimp each and every string end as the DR install procedure recommends. All I can figure is that rag that had residual orange oil cleaner on it was the culprit. It's not that bad, the strings just went, fairly instantly to well broken in. Was just a little off putting, kinda like the rug got yanked when I wasn't looking...

 

[JimmyM]

FWIW, I killed a set of DR Black Beauties with Pledge Orange Oil. I was looking around the house for something to clean my fretboard whilst doing a string change. The pledge cleaner was fine in that capacity, with the strings off. I threw that same rag in my gig bag. A few days later, I wiped down my strings and bass with it after playing and the next day, all the new string zing was gone. I did crimp each and every string end as the DR install procedure recommends. All I can figure is that rag that had residual orange oil cleaner on it was the culprit. It's not that bad, the strings just went, fairly instantly to well broken in. Was just a little off putting, kinda like the rug got yanked when I wasn't looking...

Hmmm...I've only tried regular Pledge furniture polish and never even knew that stuff existed. The furniture polish only dulled them slightly at best. Sounds reasonable the orange oil could work.

 

[Stumbo]

Be sure and get the organic Eucerin.

 

[JimmyM]

Be sure and get the organic Eucerin.

LOL...goofball

 

[AboutSweetSue]

Sometimes I wonder.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

If all this.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

Was to see.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

How many people.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

We could get.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

To put.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

Moisturizing cream.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

On their strings.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

I know.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

I did.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

10/10 would do again.

 

[David Jayne]

You asked for it

 

[JimmyM]

I don't