1. Wash Your Hands Before A Practice Session This is pretty straight forward. Your hands gather throughout the day a lot of unwanted elements such as dirt, grease, and dead skin cells. These elements will activate a faster corrosion rate on your guitar strings. By consistently washing your hands, not only do you get rid […]
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1. Don’t Play With Sweaty Hands Excess sweat and grease are two of the most common problems when it comes to strings rusting. The main reason is that both sweat and grease contain minerals such as sodium, calcium, magnesium, and potassium. When these minerals pair with the natural toxins your body secretes, corrosion takes place. […]
When to Replace Guitar Strings Regardless of how long a guitar string is “supposed” to last, sometimes it doesn’t make it that long for any number of reasons. Here are six signs it’s time to change the strings on your guitar. 1. A string is broken We’ll start with a self-explanatory situation — if a string breaks, […]