Unwinding strings

[spencer]

Just wondering if anyone else has done this.
I had completely forgot about it and found myself trying to explain this to my girlfriend the other night.
I started playing when I was seven years old. I used to bang the hell out of my first guitar, it was a Sears brand-awful. Well I broke alot of strings, mainly the B and E. My dad always said that I was playing too hard. I guess to teach me a lesson, he'd rarely buy me a pack of strings. Being seven, there wasn't much I could do but wait. So I learned this trick :
Keep the last set of strings you took off as a back up set, minus the B and E of course because they had broken. So I would take the A or the D and actually unwind them down to the core and use that as a B or an E. Crazy, huh?
Guess I was a thrifty kid. Now I have a job and boxes of strings in the closet.
And I can also drive myself to the music store.

Just wanted to share that childhood memory...

[rictified]

When I first started playing guitar, I used pennies for picks, I wore right through the outer coating to the inner core on the bigger strings, I switched to real picks very quickly. Then to bass which I really wanted to play in the first place.

[admin]

Bob: Your strings were well spent.

[dave4004]

Peter, you know how to coin a phrase.

[spencer]

I've always liked the pun threads.
Just my 2 cents.

[ted_williams]

You'll pay for that!

[big_g]

I'd like to join in on the puns, or would that be piggy, but wouldn't want to bank on it. Whoa, I gotta a million of 'em, a regular mint, please folks don't applaud, just throw money!

[spencer]

Man - If I only had a Nickel for every pun I've read on this board....

[apollo11]

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