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Ramon Amira -> RE: D string breaks (Aug. 8 2010 14:44:01)
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In all the years I am playing I have never had a D string break at the bridge. The funny thing is that the D string is in fact the string that most often breaks, but it usually breaks at the second or third fret, apparently because those two frets get played more often than the others, especially in flamenco. If you look at your strings, whatever brand, after you've played on them for a while, you will see more wear at those two frets than anywhere else. Of course on my luthier guitars I change the strings long before they would reach the point of breaking, but I have a couple of beat-up guitars that I use when I'm writing out sheet music, because I'm always picking them up and putting them down a hundred times as I go back and forth from the guitar to the sheet music, and the guitar inevitably gets knocked around, banging into the desk and worse, so I wouldn't dream of using any of my good guitars for that. But on these guitars I don't bother changing the strings until one of them breaks, so on these I frequently see the D string break at the second or third fret. If it's breaking at the bridge, I guess a sharp edge on the saddle might be the problem. There is one other possibility you might look into. With some strings one end seems to be a bit thinner and kind of squiggly. If you tie on to the bridge with that winding, it might easily break. Try tying on to the bridge with the other end.
Ramon
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