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The edge in the hole off the tuner, may bee sharp, if it snaps at the tuner? smooth it out whit a small file, sharp angles of the string are not that favorable because of the tension that is needed to get in tune, check if your tuner is on the right setting! hope this helps Greeeeeeeetings ! A.D.
Larry, I use the 44 34 and 24 on my reso guits. I think you are just tunning too high an octive. I have never broken a string on a reso. I don't know about G2 D3 or any of that, I just tune till strings are no loner sloppy and seems to work fine.
Yes, tuned to G2-D3-G3..sounds freaking awesome! Thanks everyone.
Hope you got it sorted. I was going to mention that it can be a trap, and it's caught me out at times, is that often one can go by the feel of the tension of the strings and think their in the correct octave. But lighter gauges combined with a short scale length can give the string a lighter feel so we can be fooled into tuning the string too high.
Taff
No problem Larry. Even at G2-D3-G3 those gauges would be a little too tight for my tastes but I don't play slide and like looser strings for string bending.
Here are a couple of great tools...
To chose the proper gauge string to use based on your desired tuning:
https://wahiduddin.net/calc/calc_guitar_string.htm
To determine how much tension you have on a string based on it's gauge:
https://wahiduddin.net/calc/calc_guitar_tension_from_size.htm
Thanks for the info, this helps me very much, because I've gone thru two set of strings so far.
You are trying to tune an octave too high for those string gauges. Try tuning G2-D3-G3.
A .044 tuned g3 would be 110lbs, a .034 to D4 would be 150lbs... so it's a good thing they are breaking before your neck folds. : )
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