Broken String....No replacements.....2 1/2 feet of snow......Here I Go....

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Maltozombie

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Was riffing out some megadave licks a moment ago, then suddenly my Low E just goes Flllooop broken.... which puts a sleeper hold on my winter storm woodshedding.

so now, in the midst of this blizzard we're getting pounded by, looks like i'm gonna be trucking through 2 feet of snow for about 20 miles to get to the nearest guitar strings in this town

oh irony your barbs are razor sharp!!.......maybe the norwegian guy has some snowshoes i can borrow  :laughing7:
 
Maltozombie said:
Was riffing out some megadave licks a moment ago, then suddenly my Low E just goes Flllooop broken.... which puts a sleeper hold on my winter storm woodshedding.

so now, in the midst of this blizzard we're getting pounded by, looks like i'm gonna be trucking through 2 feet of snow for about 20 miles to get to the nearest guitar strings in this town

oh irony your barbs are razor sharp!!.......maybe the norwegian guy has some snowshoes i can borrow  :laughing7:
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Ewwwwwwwww, that sucks...I always buy a several packs of strings at a time, for just such an occasion.... :sad:
 
I usually do too, these just happened to be the last set  :toothy11:

sucks though, that's the first time i've ever broken just the Low E string and none of the others....it was a total "Gishtunklfrgginarrgh!!!" moment

ugh, i just finished chipping ice off my car, and it doesn't look like a salt truck has seen this road at all, it's a sheet of ice....this is gonna be fun lol  :help:
 
DC area?
its where i live and im having so much trouble getting my car out of my street for school in the morning
good luck on your quest
 
Manchester, Tennessee. we got slammed with that winter storm front the other night, from 4am to 7am it had to have piled up to at least a foot, and it hasn't stopped coming down since then.
 
That storm rolled thru Texas last week, snowed for something like almost 30 hrs. Luckily it didn't freeze and stick, the snow was gone in a couple days... :doh:
 
it's finally letting up now, should start clearing up hopefully, i never got my strings though  :-\
i have to go in the morning though, i feel like a fish out of water trying to run scales on 5 strings  :laughing7:
 
i thought you meant literally 2 and a half feet of snow. haha we got about 40 inches in 2 or 3 days a week ago. it'll be here until summer, i swear! that really sucks about the string breaking though. i got my newest warmoth all assembled during the blizzard and realized all i had were 11's. not quite as bad, but i was so sure i had a big bag of 10's lying around somewhere. apparently not!

anyway, a friend of mine moved from here (the DC area) down to texas with his family. he said the few inches they got there were a nightmare. we gave him a hard time here, but he said it's much worse farther down south because the counties have absolutely no idea how to handle even the light snow. he said their strategy was to just leave it on the ground, let it freeze, and pretend like it wasn't there. i definitely don't envy that!
 
JaySwear said:
i thought you meant literally 2 and a half feet of snow.

anyway, a friend of mine moved from here (the DC area) down to texas with his family. he said the few inches they got there were a nightmare. we gave him a hard time here, but he said it's much worse farther down south because the counties have absolutely no idea how to handle even the light snow. he said their strategy was to just leave it on the ground, let it freeze, and pretend like it wasn't there. i definitely don't envy that!
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I wish i was kidding, it really is 2 feet deep in spots, not totally covered that bad though lol, just where the wind was making it pile up, my road was easily covered in 6 inches, i just meant i hope the roads are clearing up by tomorrow, this will be on the ground for a while.

and you're totally right about people down here not knowing how to handle snow, i'll easily see where like 10 cars have gone off into the ditch when it's like this in just the area around my house, people try to act like it's just like rain or something, and if you mention "black ice" usually all you get is a "Huh?  :tard:".....heck, i saw a county cop from here stuck in the ditch earlier in january...... hilarious.  :laughing11:

 
I'm from Kansas. We eat ice storms and crap tornados before our morning coffee.
 
i have a friend that lives in Kansas City, Kansas and he says that the most they got at once was three inches that was supposed to be 12  :doh:
 
knucklehead G said:
I'm from Kansas. We eat ice storms and crap tornados before our morning coffee.
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Yea, I lived in Kansas for a great part of my life.  Last place was in O.P. for 12 years.  Got out while the gettin' was good. 
I live in Phoenix now.  Sorry guys, but the high today was 79 degrees...
I saw snow that stuck last in 2000.
Gotta love it  :headbang1:
 
Man, I've grabbed a pair of pliers and tied a knot in a broken bass guitar string before to finish a jazz festival I was playing in with several groups.  I imagine this could work if you have enough slack around the tuner.  Obviously, it isn't a great solution, but it's better than going out in that mess.

-Mark
 
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