what do you guys do with old strings?

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what are you supposed to do with old used strings? it seems like a hazard to throw them in the trash... but I'm not really sure what else to do?
 
I use the wound ones to clean my one hitter.
 
We have an artist who comes by and takes them all to make jewelry. There is also a group out there (I can't find their website) who take "lightly used" strings, and gives them to musicians in Africa, where new ones are both expensive and rare.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
It never occurred to me, that guitar string availability, would lack in certain places...just shows how much I am in my own little world eh...?
 
FALKEN said:
what are you supposed to do with old used strings? it seems like a hazard to throw them in the trash... but I'm not really sure what else to do?
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I trash mine and have suffered no ill effects so far. I wear safety goggles and I do it very carefully. :D
 
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I trash mine and have suffered no ill effects so far. I wear safety goggles and I do it very carefully. :D
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I throw them in my neighbors yard so he can run over them with his lawnmower.

























Not really. I just trash them.
 
I throw mine in my cases in case I break a string and dont have a new one at the moment.
 
i learned a trick from cello_pudding on this board. its a little tricky explain though...youve probably heard of it already.


you save as long a piece of string as you can with the ball end still on it.

if you ever break a string behind the nut (close to the tuner) and dont want to replace it with a new one, thread the end through the ball end of the recycled piece and wrap it around with pliers super tight, as many times as you can.

then string the recycled piece through your tuner and you have the cheapskates recycled string. im done it multiple times and the string has never broken at the splice. it works very well and saves some money especially if youre using elixirs or something.

hope i explained it well enough that you know what i mean lol.

thats what i do with them if i can save a long enough piece.

otherwise i cut them up into relatively small pieces and just trash em.

Adam
 
I make stew from mine

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Can be a bit hard to chew though
 
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I use the plain ones for flossing. The wound ones were taking out to much enamel.
 
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I mean hazardous to the trash workers. They poke through the bags. It sucks getting hit by one of those things. I feel like an asshole even just admitting that I've shit canned them before. Cutting them up is a good idea...I've done that before. Seems like you should be able to "recycle" them at the guitar store or something. gigging constantly I probably go through a set or two a week.
 
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I give most of my old strings to a few ninja friends. Apparently they're a highly effective killing device.

The rest I keep around to poke my fingers with. I don't get near enough of that shit when I'm changing strings. :( :mad:
 
Leaving a new set uncut on your guitar is also dangerous. I almost put my friends eye out with my acoustic guitar one day. We were sitting in the front seat of his old pick-up getting tore up ( me on the pasenger side) and he turned toward me to pass the doobie and got poked in the eye. :eek: I think it was the excess from the D string. Of course it was unintentional, but he still felt the need to "get me back". He put a roach out on my forehead a week later when I was least expecting it.:mad:
 
roll 'em up together and duct tape them...usually save a B for cleaning small holes, pipes, carbs, use to give them to 'ol John the bumm, but he died.
 
I got them stuck in the hoover, although that isn't my preferred method!

I usually throw them in the bin but i'll put them inside something else that i'm throwing away, for example an empty 2 litre coke bottle.
 
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We have an artist who comes by and takes them all to make jewelry. There is also a group out there (I can't find their website) who take "lightly used" strings, and gives them to musicians in Africa, where new ones are both expensive and rare.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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Man, I heard the same thing about sending strings to Africa on the radio years ago but didn't write the numbers down.

This might be it:

http://secondstringsproject.org/
 
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