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I just got a fender strat last month, on the 9th i think it was,

about a month after i got the guitar the LOW E string broke, i was like "okay they were old", they were the ones that came on it.

So i put ernie ball strings on it, and 2 days later my LOW E broke again.
THen I just put new ones on 3 days ago, bam me A broke.

THe reason I say broke is because the dont snap, they un-wind at the bridge. I dont know what could be causing this. Am I putting the strings on wrong? I dont know this is URGENT please help.

thank you, - Tom
 
i'm always bad with breaking strings...some advice that's been taught to me was to sharpen a pencil, and rub off the graphite stuff into the saddle area where the string lays, or sometimes spurs of metal help it break down there..
 
tom18222 said:
thanks, any other advice?
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The bridge saddles have to be filed and polished. The point where the string contacts the saddle has a severe angle and the sharp edge on the saddle is cutting into the string wound material. Be careful to only file it smooth and polish to a shine. DO NOT elongate the point of contact (make it longer) or you will have intonation problems. Just "break" the edge and polish with a Dremel tool and polishing compound.
 
acorec said:
The bridge saddles have to be filed and polished. The point where the string contacts the saddle has a severe angle and the sharp edge on the saddle is cutting into the string wound material. Be careful to only file it smooth and polish to a shine. DO NOT elongate the point of contact (make it longer) or you will have intonation problems. Just "break" the edge and polish with a Dremel tool and polishing compound.
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This is not how we do it, though the concept is right. The best thing to do is to take it to a good repair shop, and have them look at it. They will almost certainly suggest, along with the string breakage fix, that you get a setup. Listen to their advice and do so. No new guitar ever comes out of the factory setup right, and a good repair shop can fix that for you. Also, if this is a new instrument and they did something wrong in the manufacturing that is leading to the string breakage, it should be covered under warranty. That warranty is voided the moment you start working on the guitar yourself. Take it to a good shop, and make sure they are a Fender warranty shop.


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You have a saddle burr.

File it carefully, polish it and you're done.
 
Light said:
This is not how we do it, though the concept is right. The best thing to do is to take it to a good repair shop, and have them look at it. They will almost certainly suggest, along with the string breakage fix, that you get a setup. Listen to their advice and do so. No new guitar ever comes out of the factory setup right, and a good repair shop can fix that for you. Also, if this is a new instrument and they did something wrong in the manufacturing that is leading to the string breakage, it should be covered under warranty. That warranty is voided the moment you start working on the guitar yourself. Take it to a good shop, and make sure they are a Fender warranty shop.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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Yeah, although I am a Fender repairman, if it is under warranty, take it to them. I don't expect that they will really fix the problem, but you can make them try. WHEN the warrantee does expire, replace those saddles with the american made saddles OR replace the whole bridge with the american made part. I am guessing your strat is not an american made model because I have seen so many made everywhere stratswith the same problem. The Made in America models have better designed saddles and bridges. You can file and polish too, but it is time consuming and requires at least a dremel tool and some bits.

Good Luck either way.
 
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