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Permalink Reply by Darryl Tuttle on June 19, 2018 at 1:42pm

Not sure what you are using for a nut....I had trouble tuning up my e string to a g so I bought a set of extra slinky strings with .008 gauge e string....read that going from .009 to .008 would help this....only been a few days so can't really tell you that this is a permanent fix....seems to work so far

Are All the cbgs the same scale length?

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on June 19, 2018 at 2:06pm

If its breaking in the same place every time, eg, saddle, nut or tuner post, there could lie the problem.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by Mark on June 20, 2018 at 2:42am

Sometimes it breaks at the nut and sometimes at the bridge and I have used the same set up on other cbgs

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Permalink Reply by JL on June 20, 2018 at 3:05am

Is your tuner in chromatic mode or guitar mode?

in guitar mode it will give you the wrong octave for some notes and you'll over-tighten the string and break it...

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on June 20, 2018 at 12:44pm

Hi Mark, keep in mind that the lighter the string the less energy it produces when plucked so less volume from your guitar. 

I normally run 13 or 16 gauge as my 1st string tuned dad, I just strung up my latest CBG to open A it has a 10g first. Scale is 25". A bit too light for me.

Try not using the tuner for the 1st and use your ear to get it in unison with the 3rd string. Sometimes I find that one can be guided, mistakenly, by the string tension/feel and tune to the next octave. Just a thought.

Taff

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