Keep breaking guitar strings!!!!!?

Question

My high e-string keeps breaking every time while I'm re-stringing it. I am tightening it and it justs snaps. I know I not doing it to tight just by the feel of it. I have even loosened the other strings just to make sure and it still broke!!!! What the hell am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You're using low quality strings man! Spend some money in strings, beacuse they are gonna make your sound! Go for Dean Markley or Ernie Ball.

There's another thing: Put the strings on yur guitar and tune'em one step lower in order to stretch'em... next day you can tune your instrument in the right pitch.

Somethign else? Well, using heavier gauge helps a lot... maybe you have to switch from 0.9 to 0.10 or a hybrid package 0.10 / 0.12 (Heavy top and light bottom)

Good luck!!!

Answer 2

If you're still having problems after trying the other stuff, one other thing I thought of if you have an old guitar is the edge where the string begins (the end where you pick, sorry I don't know the terminology) may have become sharp over time. I used to break my "d" string all the time and I never got it, I was doing everything else right. It turns out I just had to replace the part where the string was held in place because it was literally cutting into it.

Answer 3

take it easy. string it through and wrap it through the nut, be very gentle with it, slowly turn the key to tighten it when the string starts to get any sound out of it as soon as you can strum it and get a sound just stop right there. it doesn't even have to be taught, just be able to get a sound. get a guitar tuner and tune up the other strings don't turn the high e tuning key really fast that also causes it to break. if that doesn't help, which it should, choose a little higher gauge string and do what i've said at the top, the main point is to take it easy, at no point during string should it be tight, unless your tuning it up.

Answer 4

I have the same problem with many of my guitars, so much that I had several out of commission.

First, what is happening: Many guitars make their saddles out of cheap metals, mainly brass that is nickel plated. Brass is a soft metal, and eventually that string wears into the metal...until is finds a hard spot in it. Then *snap* it acts like a knife to the string. My Fender Espirit did the same thing...tighten a new string and it snapped.

There is a company called Graph Tech that makes composite saddles. I put them on all my guitars when they start breaking strings. I hardly break strings with them, and with that the need to re-string so often. I can't recommend these enough.

Answer 5

Either you are tightening too much or using too lite a gauge string. Some of those xtra lite strings break if you look at them wrong. Are you using a tuner or going by ear? If by ear, buy a tuner. It's worth the money you'll save not having to replace strings.

Answer 6

you can also try big bends nut sauce...i really dont know what kind of bridge you have...on my les pauls and my dot archtop i stole a page from zakk wylde...i started putting my strings on where they are strung away from the neck, and pull the strings back over the tail piece, it makes less of an angle against the bridge...i have broken less strings like this...but if you have a floating bridge good luck...change saddles like that guy said...

Answer 7

get a tuner you can pick one up for as little as $20 and it tells you when your strings are perfectly in tune

Answer 8

Don't play to hard or else it will break or just get better quality strings.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Mayb de string is kinda thin.