You'll Have Someone's Eye Out With That

I was playing my 12-sting on Sat night when the 3rd harmonic string (a right little whippy bastard) went and slapped me straight in the face. Nearly had my bastarding eye out. I was restringing it last night and I was wincing all the time, thinking it might do it again and actually injure me.

Has anyone ever actually sustained an injury from a snapping guitar string? Which would be worse, a massive high-tension bass bastard or a little wiry thing like what got me?

And do I win £40 for the most boring Saturday night?

I was the entire Identity and Passport Service (and a few other things and all) on Saturday night, you're not even in the same league of boring fucko.

Bass strings tend to have such thick and heavy windings that the don't snap outright, and if they do it's a bit of a let down, though they can sort of "rear up" as the snap and twat your picking hand a little.

HOWEVER, my first bass had ANCIENT strings on it (three of them were flaming tapewound, fuckin hard to find these days), which were old and stiff and brittle. When, in my inexperience, I over stressed the G, it snapper with such ferocity that it gave me a very nasty looking slash on my left cheek, looked very much like the work of a bramble meeted out upon one in a rapid thickett traversal.

My mate once sat on my uncased Moog power supply, duely receiving 240V right into his arse cheek through spikey little terminals. And I once nearly got me arm blown off when I touched the selector u-nail-type-thing on the back of a valve amp, it was configured for 17KV valves at the time, was dizzy for days.

Ive caught my knob in my zip!

Off work yesterday I embarked on a gardening frenzy and fixed my shed door. I now have a splinter buried deep in my finger. Despite attacking it with a sterilised needle, I can't get the bugger out. It's going to go septic but as it's painful I think I'll just wait until my finger falls off.

You need a poultice on it

A friend of mine genuinely snapped his banjo string, and spent 24 hours having it repaired at Jimmy's hospital in Leeds.

Apparently the TV crew were there, but declined to film the operation as it was daytime TV.

Looking at the title I thought this was a Peter North Thread

Could i just advise all to wear I can only give you advice.Don't shoot the messenger! :D

7 7 7 wrote: Looking at the title I thought this was a Peter North Thread

What else do you think Biggie calls his '12-string'? Not a guitar surely.....

..have no idea why he calls his man-chwder his '3rd string' though