Been a long while since I last blogged. There are so many things that have happened that I don’t know where to begin, and even if I did, a bunch of them I’d rather not talk about.<\/p>\n
I’ve been keeping myself busy with work and making songs. And today, after almost<\/em> a year, a<\/strong> string on my T5<\/a> finally gave way. What a waste; none of them were rusting at all.<\/em> Though I think I know why it happened.<\/p>\n When I first got the guitar, the first thing I did (when I got home) was to have the machine heads replaced with locking tuners.<\/a> I still used the same strings that shipped with the guitar – mostly because they were Elixirs,<\/em> which are probably the<\/em> best\/longest lasting strings money could buy.<\/p>\n Anyways, long story short, I was essentially re-winding an already practically “used” set of strings. And if that<\/em> wasn’t enough, I started winding one of them the wrong way!<\/strong> I eventually corrected it, but the fact that it was steel that had already been bent both ways<\/strong> – then it’s not so surprising that that<\/em> particular string wasn’t as strong as the rest. And today was the day it finally gave out. Still, pretty impressive for it to last almost a year.<\/p>\n Now I just re-strung my guitar with strings from my bulk pack,<\/a> now to compare how fast these babies oxidize as compared to the Elixirs.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Been a long while since I last blogged. There are so many things that have happened that I don’t know where to begin, and even if I did, a bunch of them I’d rather not talk about. I’ve been keeping myself busy with work and making songs. And today, after almost a year, a string …