Snapped string after swapping: what did I do wrong?

[SteveXFR]

12 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Unless you are American, in which case hardening is tempering and drawing is tempering.

But we're not American are we? We are civilised, tea drinking, English spelling, sarcasm using, human beans

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Rather than swapping strings when you no longer want the brighter clank of rounds, you should use the eq on your amp to roll off some upper mids and treble to get a more flatwound sounding tone — that is what it's there for.

[Stub Mandrel]

3 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Unless you are American, in which case hardening is tempering and drawing is tempering.

But we're not American are we? We are civilised, tea drinking, English spelling, sarcasm using, human beans

 

Yes, but woe betide anyone who ventures through the doors of TalkBass and raises this topic!

[Gasman]

I'd like to know in which case case-hardening falls and whether annealing is appealing as a term to our American friends...

[SteveXFR]

35 minutes ago, Gasman said:

I'd like to know in which case case-hardening falls and whether annealing is appealing as a term to our American friends...

 

I find work hardening works well 

[neepheid]

Fnar, hardening.

[Jeffb28451]

Been playing over 50 years and never heard of string swapping: almost certainly simple metal fatigue.

 

I mean, I don't CARE if string swapping works for you, but, this will never NOT be a problem.

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

On 13/02/2024 at 13:07, chyc said:

Surely I'm not the only person who changes strings back and forth

Erm, I think you might be one of a small select group 😎

Mine stay on until they fall off.

[chyc]

On 22/03/2024 at 14:11, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

Erm, I think you might be one of a small select group 😎

Mine stay on until they fall off.

Do you not even take the strings off to clean the fingerboard?

[BigRedX]

1 minute ago, chyc said:

Do you not even take the strings off to clean the fingerboard?

 

I suspect that most people only take the strings off a guitar or bass when they are going to fit a brand new set. The fingerboard gets cleaned, if required, when that occurs.

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

1 hour ago, chyc said:

Do you not even take the strings off to clean the fingerboard?

As @BigRedX said, I’ll give the fingerboard a wipe if I change the strings.

I would never take the strings off just to clean the fingerboard

[Stub Mandrel]

4 hours ago, chyc said:

Do you not even take the strings off to clean the fingerboard?

 

If you really need to clean the fingerboard and the strings don't need replacing you can just loosen the strings off a bit.

 

Will admit, I used to take strings off and boil them up with a bit of Persil back in the 1980s when I was a bit skint.

[Norris]

This is one of the more random threads I have seen on BC

 

I'm still kind of struggling with why someone would change strings so often, but then to re-use strings they have removed 

 

Mine have been on for 14 months now and I half considered a new set but haven't been arsed just yet. The battery is also still holding out