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 Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:13 pm
oly $#!+, guys. My strings have been pretty freakin dead for the last week or so, since I just buy strings when go to my guitar lesson (my teach gives me power slikys for $3). I just got a big package of 9v batteries to power my pedals. I got this crazy idea that just maybe, since the flow of electrons causes magnetism, it might create an eBow-like effect. Nope. The second both ends of the battery touched the string (my high e) BAM. It snapped. So never EVER touch your strings with 9v.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:35 pm
Did it make a neat sound when this happened? Could be used as a studio sound at least.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:49 pm
The only sound it made was a loud *POP!!!!!!*. So no, it couldn't be used in a studio unless you wanted to pay $5 each time.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:43 pm
Yep. And the string (it was a very light, needle like string) flipped over and stuck into the back of my hand. About a 1/3 inch into the back of my hand. OUCH.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:44 pm
yeah i usually keep my batteries and guitar/bass strings away from each other. another thing not to do is drop your guitars or smash them into bathroom sinks like seen on johnny cashes movie walk the line
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:05 pm
What about an electro magnet? Or a degausing coil!
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:52 pm
dude that must have sucked and i like slinky strings to what size do u prefer
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:35 pm
Dancing with Myself What about an electro magnet? Or a degausing coil! Yeah, I could probably build a simple electromagnet. But what's a "degausing coil"?
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 1:35 pm
trentsg dude that must have sucked and i like slinky strings to what size do u prefer Regular ErnieBall Slinkys.
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:54 pm
Gods Jester Dancing with Myself What about an electro magnet? Or a degausing coil! Yeah, I could probably build a simple electromagnet. But what's a "degausing coil"? Think "big round electromagnet." You know on computer monitors when you hit a button and the screen goes all funky and rainbow like for a moment? Same affect, but much bigger! They are used to align the guns in a cathode ray tube (picture tube).
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:28 pm
wow surprised that must've hurt your hand.....did you have to get stitches for it!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?also,dont move the whammy bar really fast.....
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:57 pm
0-guitar-pro-0 wow surprised that must've hurt your hand.....did you have to get stitches for it!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?also,dont move the whammy bar really fast..... No. It didn't slice it, it just went straight in.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:06 pm
Well, after hearing not to do that, I aptly ran into my room and pulled out an E string, and popped a 9-Volt out of a pack, and tried it. I didn't get it to pop, but I did burn the string. Hooray for half-assed progress anyone?
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:20 pm
HB: You pulled out an E string... was the guitar still attached to it?
If you're interested in the physics of it...... if you touch both terminals to a guitar string like that, you wind up creating a short circuit. Since there's very little resistance to the guitar string and the current flow is so high between the terminals, it heats up fast, kind of like the elements in an oven. It doesn't quite melt, but it certainly weakens the string at the point you touch it. The only thing is, that with 13-15lbs of tension, the string snaps since it's so hot.
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:28 pm
hylianhero27 HB: You pulled out an E string... was the guitar still attached to it? If you're interested in the physics of it...... if you touch both terminals to a guitar string like that, you wind up creating a short circuit. Since there's very little resistance to the guitar string and the current flow is so high between the terminals, it heats up fast, kind of like the elements in an oven. It doesn't quite melt, but it certainly weakens the string at the point you touch it. The only thing is, that with 13-15lbs of tension, the string snaps since it's so hot. Oh yeah, lemme use the E-string currently attached to my guitar, brilliant! Haha, naw, I pulled one off my night stand. I already know the phyrics of it. I use to make elctromagnets in 7th grade out of paper clips and batterys. I'd get bored in class and burn people with the heated battery, it was great.
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