This one’s for you @Flatpickin_Libby 
When String Snapping Goes Wrong
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You seem happy! Maybe you wanted that happen??! 
I most certainly didn’t want that to happen, I don’t have any extra strings right now.
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Oh then so sorry for you. 
But then the good thing is, you have an educational video ready now, on how not to do things! 
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Nah, I’m gonna keep doing it. It works really well. I’m thinking it may have been this string’s time to go anyway, it broke when I was tuning it back up, not as I was snapping it. Who knows
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Were you pulling them to break them in? Just curious.
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Doing this makes old strings sound bright again.
Sometimes if the string is too old they break when you try to snap them. Especially if you’ve done it once before
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Haha, guess this means I need new strings. I already knew that though, I haven’t changed them in like a year
Ah, so it sounds like snapping them will break off some of the caked on dirt…yes?
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Yep!
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On the wound string, yes. @Flatpickin_Libby’s trick! A little trick I use all the time! - Guitar - Forum - Banjo Ben Clark
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Are you blaming ME?!?
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Never heard of string snapping.
Wonder if it works on mandolin🤔
Yeh that used to happen to me all the time when I used light gauge strings.
You can’t pluck that guitar without the strings breaking but you can shoot arrows with it just fine!
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No, not at all! Seriously, I just thought you’d find it funny since I learned it from you.
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I laughed. I could imagine you thinking about me when you started to snap them, all proud of yourself for knowing one of Jake’s tricks, haha…
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But Jake (and I 
) would also tell you not to let the strings get a year old on your guitar!
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