Re: E string constantly breaking
Grasping at straws here, given all the good suggestions above, but...
Are you sure that the end post is firmly seated in the base of the tailpiece? If it's even slightly loose (and it may not feel loose to finger pressure), it could lean forward under tension and thus cause the string to bend sharply (at least relative to no bend) where it crosses the upper edge if the groove.
Or could the angles be such that, under tension, the string crosses on the lower edge of the groove?
If either were true, some rounding of the groove edge, like at the 10:30 and 1:30 o'clock positions where the string crosses, might do the trick.
Or maybe there's an edge burr at one of those positions (rather than at the highly-suspected BASE of the groove in the 2:30 to 9:30 area) that's catching the string even with no leaning of the post?
As I said: grasping at straws!
Last edited by EdHanrahan; Dec-16-2009 at 1:06pm.
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