guitar losing its tune after bending the strings?

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shadowcon

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hey guys, i have just restringed my guitar but now everytime i do a bend, it loses the tuning and i have to re-tune the guitar again. can anybody tell me whats wrong with it? is it because of the string gauge? im using the exact gauge the salesperson told me when i bought the guitar. but when i checked the guitar brand's website, it said that it uses a gauge which is larger than what the salesperson told me. or is it the bridge which is causing the problem? my guitar has a tune-o-matic bridge. thanks for the help!
 
It's pretty normal for new strings to take a day or two to 'stretch out'. Keep strumming, bending, and tuning them back up during this 'break in' phase. If after a few days it still keeps doing that, then it might be the way you fastened your strings to the tuning pegs.
 
shadowcon said:
thanks for the help, but if i keep tuning wont the string break?
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It shouldn't break unless you're really abusing it. What's going on is that as you play/bend, the string tightens at the tuning peg, so you get a little bit of overall slack which leads to it being detuned.as you tune it up, it might loosen again at the tuning peg.

Basically, once everything is nice and tight at the peg, the tuning will generally hold unless you're playing or bending aggressively.

Though there's also the likelihood of manufacturing defects - If it's gonna burst, it's gonna burst.

What I did when I was worried about breaking new strings, was to take it slow. Restring today, play it as usual, stretch it out, leave it overnight. Tune up again the next day. Repeat.

I assume you got an epi?
 
It won't break. The string is stretching itself. Perhaps one or two day for a tune-o-matic bridge :)
 
nah it's a schecter. what do you mean by manufacturing defects? the string or the guitar? thanks for the help again!
 
i think he means the guitar... get a new set of strings first... swap out the old ones and make sure you stretch them up good after stringing them in... if problem persists then better bring it back for a check...
 
planet waves sells a string winder that has a string stretcher in the design. its a curved groove that you slot the string into, then wank it up and down the strings. i own it, albeit the bass version

many times at ebenex when beez was still there i saw him shredding the guitars after setting them up, always pausing in between to re-tune. i'm sure alot of other guitar techs out there do more or less the same thing
 
shadowcon said:
hey guys, i have just restringed my guitar but now everytime i do a bend, it loses the tuning and i have to re-tune the guitar again. can anybody tell me whats wrong with it? is it because of the string gauge? im using the exact gauge the salesperson told me when i bought the guitar. but when i checked the guitar brand's website, it said that it uses a gauge which is larger than what the salesperson told me. or is it the bridge which is causing the problem? my guitar has a tune-o-matic bridge. thanks for the help!
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it is normal for a new string.. sometimes it can even losen until one note.. just keep on re tuning.. it will slowly stays in tune =)
 
after u change a string u shld stretch it first but dun pull the string so hard...once i pulled the b string too hard it snapped at the stop tail and cut my palm
 
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