TeyshaBlue
It's the smell..
Jesus fucking Cheeerist!!! It's ok to be wrong from time to time, dude. Cowboy up.
Sorry.
...and if you "don't have to convince anyone but yourself", then please stop trying to convince everyone here.
Jesus fucking Cheeerist!!! It's ok to be wrong from time to time, dude. Cowboy up.
Sorry.
...and if you "don't have to convince anyone but yourself", then please stop trying to convince everyone here.
Zaphod B
Raccoons-Be-Gone, Inc.
See what kind of shit we've been putting up with over here?Jesus fucking Cheeerist!!! It's ok to be wrong from time to time, dude. Cowboy up.
Sorry.
...and if you "don't have to convince anyone but yourself", then please stop trying to convince everyone here.
How are things in the Accordions forum?
lpdeluxe
The Precision Bass Guy
Copper is used in strings, but as an alloy. Since about, oh, 4000 BC, metallurgists have known that, by mixing different metallic elements together, products such as bronze (a simple alloy of copper and tin, but often containing other elements such as phosphor) could be produced that had characteristics desirable for the job at hand. As a matter of fact, bronze is less brittle than iron (but note, this is not true of steel, of which iron is a constituent).
Now, let's just do a thought experiment: you are a string manufacturer, and you want certain qualities that seem to derive from having varying amounts of copper in the alloy.
So do you A) tailor your new mix so that your strings, when constantly flexed by tuning or vibrated by playing get hard, brittle, and stiff? Or do you B) tweak the mixture to minimize those traits and thereby make them (get this) not WORSE for use as guitar strings, but better?
I won't spoil your fun by providing the answer.
TeyshaBlue
It's the smell..
See what kind of shit we've been putting up with over here?
How are things in the Accordions forum?
We are having a raging debate over the effects of talcum powder aka Wikieup Dust, on the bellows and treble reeds.
And by we, I mean...ummm...me, and by raging debate I mean, drinking beer.
So, by and large, things are just peachy in the Accordion Forum!
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
Jesus fucking Cheeerist!!! It's ok to be wrong from time to time, dude. Cowboy up.
Sorry.
...and if you "don't have to convince anyone but yourself", then please stop trying to convince everyone here.
"You must spread..."
Win, otherwise.
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cantthinkofname
Active member
VP is correct again, copper is used for guitar strings and also correct about work hardening in relation to its effect on strings too.
Yonce N Mild
Voice of Sanity
kcearl
I see deaf people
haha...this forums better than the cave 
though Im sure it's not it's purpose
though Im sure it's not it's purpose
legionserial
New member
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cantthinkofname
Active member
i haven't caught the talcom powder discussion yet, but i'll just post this here for now, i've heard about talcom powder as well, i'm not sure what pete's views on it are because haven't read it yet, but anyway here is a quick example of its use
from Musician.com http://www.musician.com/document?doc_id=98636&sku=510832
Zaphod B
Raccoons-Be-Gone, Inc.
Holy FSM, we've got another one.
legionserial
New member
VP thinks that if you put talcum powder on old dead strings, it rejuvinates them...
Even you must think that's pretty retarded?
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
Copper is NOT used for the part of a string that's under tension ..... only as a wrap around a steel core.
The part that's under tension is steel.
The part that's under tension is steel.
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cantthinkofname
Active member
aside from using talcom powder on your hands when playing, it is also used on the neck to speed up playing, and it is also a great resource to prevent string decay & tonal change. I'm guessing that is what he meant?
& no, so far i don't think he's pretty retarded.
Kingofpain678
Returned from the dead
your a very faithful sidekick.
lpdeluxe
The Precision Bass Guy
Am I the only one here making subtle distinctions? Like between (just for an example) steel/copper (or brass or bronze) wrapped strings and, say, silicone rubber strings? How the hell did someone's advice to put talcum powder on silicone rubber strings (strings NOT made of steel or other metal) translate to putting it on steel strings, (which, it may be redundant, but nevertheless necessary to point out, are NOT made of silicone rubber)?
Or am I really, really, missing something important?
Jeez, I coulda stayed home from school all those years....
Or is it true that minuscule knowledge is equivalent to majuscule danger?
Or am I really, really, missing something important?
Jeez, I coulda stayed home from school all those years....
Or is it true that minuscule knowledge is equivalent to majuscule danger?
Zaphod B
Raccoons-Be-Gone, Inc.
You're dealing with Victory Pete and his alias/doppelganger/sidekick cantthinkofname, after all.
No thinking required, just reject any and every thing posted by either one of them.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
yep ..... gotta be the same guy.
VP has said very little that's correct about guitars so far.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
lol@ more misinformation.
When I use "silicon strings" I'll try it.
And talcum powder has a 'u' in it.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
since I've known thousands of guitar players and have only heard of this from VP and have read thousands of articles about guitars and their care and have never seen this mentioned by anyone ever, you gotta be a sidekick or alias.
You do realize that everyone's just laughing at you don't you?