CroceFan4life
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The luthier I use claims strings should be changed every 5 to 6 months to protect the guitar from warping. He was even saying new guitars bought from retailers need new strings because they might be older stock.
That seems a bit too conservative to me. Especially for an electric. A solid body won't warp like an acoustic. It's the neck that will warp.
My daily practice guitars (a Electric and one acoustic) gets new strings every few months. I've got three others in cases that are played infrequently. I change the strings on them once a year. I use light strings, 11's on my acoustics and 10's on my electric guitars.
How often do you change strings? Especially on the guitars you don't play regularly?
That seems a bit too conservative to me. Especially for an electric. A solid body won't warp like an acoustic. It's the neck that will warp.
My daily practice guitars (a Electric and one acoustic) gets new strings every few months. I've got three others in cases that are played infrequently. I change the strings on them once a year. I use light strings, 11's on my acoustics and 10's on my electric guitars.
How often do you change strings? Especially on the guitars you don't play regularly?