[GuitarGatorGuy]

I had a buddy who used to take the new strings out of the packaging, get a pot of water boiling, and would drop the strings in there for a while. Then he would restring the guitar. I think he said that this took the stretching out of them and that he didn't have to retune as much up front. I read some other thread about boiling strings, but it seemed like this was a cheap way to "recycle" used strings by cleaning them up and then restringing them. While I'm not interested in reusing the old strings, I was wondering if anybody else saw any sense in boiling brand new strings before putting them on.

[Stratrat]

Originally Posted by The Ethical

Noodling anyone ?

Definitely gives a new meaning to the phrase, don't it?

[Racetruckdave]

Reading stuff like this really gets me steamed!

I used to do this in the day when I couldn't get new strings, problem was that they would break about a week later.

Put them on fresh from the pack and just go play!

[s_allcroft]

Originally Posted by cshude

I've also heard of soaking your strings in lighter fluid before stringing (specifically for electric strings). Never tried it, likely never will. A good stretching during the stringing process and a couple tuneups during the first couple hours of playing on new strings seems to set them in place pretty good for me.

That is done for flaming riffs!!!

[pitney]

i have heard of boiling old bass string but NEVER guitar strings
when you restring a guitar you can stretch the strings while you are tuning them and i never have problems with them going out anymore that usual
i would never boil my guitar strings
:-)

[Truedoom]

this is only for bass strigns, or thick wound strings. attemptong to do it on guitar strings would be pointless, what are they like 6 euro a pack? bass strings are dearer tho. typical bassists, up to no good