| When you buy a new guitar string or a new set of guitar strings, like most things you expect them to look new and pristine. Sometimes however this doesn't happen when you buy guitar strings. Ideally when a manufacturer makes and packages new strings they should be untouched by human hands and packaged in an air tight package. Ideally the store or distributer should have a short shelf life. This doesn't always happen. In this case to the right it looks like a fingerprint was left on the string and it sat on the shelf waiting for a while. If you buy strings in bulk and store them yourself for a long time this can also happen. In that case you can't really return them. If you buy new strings like this return them and consider a new maufacturer and distributer. |  |
| This is what they look like when installed on a guitar. I've tried to clean it off. Doesn't work. |  |
There is hope
though. If you run into this problem I advise buying coated
strings. This is a set of Lifespans installed years ago, many
hours of playing, and many years of storage and no rust. There's a little more info on this subject on my Tip 201. Bob, Gman ( o )==# |  |