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Do you cut your strings?

By cut your strings, I mean by after you put new strings on and tune them, do you cut the dangling end off?

I personally prefer to leave my strings dangling untill recently my instructor cut my strings for me. I just love the look and sound the dangling strings make. (because I didn't listen when he told me to cut them)


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No? Don't they swing around and eventually unwind?
If you have them wound right, they should not.

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I cut when I can, sometimes I lose my snips so I would roll them up but they have scratched the finish on my Les Paul in the past.

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I cut the strings on my best guitar but I left them hanging loose on my electro-acoustic that was until I nearly poked my mates eye out when he was showing me how to do something, now I cut them all and he feels more secure.


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