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Topic: What Do You Use for a Spare String Organizer?
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Bob Kagy
Member From: Lafayette, CO USA
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posted 03 April 2006 03:39 PM
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I'd like to find something that's compact, accessible and holds the strings and spare sets vertically with room for label tabs.But what do you use? Any cool ideas? bk |
Rodney Garrison
Member From: Bowie, Texas
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posted 03 April 2006 03:55 PM
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I use Zip- Lock Bags. |
Jon Light
Member From: Brooklyn, NY
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posted 03 April 2006 04:06 PM
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I buy strings by the dozen from juststrings.com. They come straight (uncoiled) in plastic sleeves with a dessicant pack. I staple the sleeves to a board which I stand up in a corner. Not pretty but effective. |
Lee Baucum
Member From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) - The Final Frontier
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posted 03 April 2006 08:17 PM
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I keep all my spare strings in my old ACE Pac-A-Seat. It has a compartment that was sized perfectly to hold strings. It's about 4 and 1/2 inches from side to side and the same from front to back. I keep my strings, peg winder, and string cutters in that compartment.------------------
Lee, from South Texas
Down On The Rio Grande Mullen U-12, Evans FET-500, Fender Steel King
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
Member From: Clinton, Missouri USA
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posted 03 April 2006 08:41 PM
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I put them in guage order and wrap a rubber band around them. I guess I'm not inventive, but it works for me. |
John Bechtel
Member From: Nashville, Tennessee,U.S.A.
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posted 03 April 2006 10:04 PM
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I use the compartment built into my pac-a-seat. I stand the strings on end, in their envelops and use heavy poster~paper, cut about 1” higher than the envelop for a spacer between gauges and label each spacer with the proper gauge. It's kinda like a filing-cabinet, I guess; not being office~oriented!  Been doing it this way since Duane Marrs built Sho-Bud's first pac-a-seat, back in the early ’70's! ------------------
“Big John”
a.k.a. {Keoni Nui}
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Tim Jones
Member From: Andover, KS, USA
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posted 03 April 2006 11:26 PM
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I take the old-fashioned method...A Crown Royal Bag. I can hang it by the drawstrings from one of the tuning keys and its right there if I need it. Tim Jones
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Randy Pettit
Member From: Van Alstyne, Texas USA
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posted 04 April 2006 07:23 AM
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A plastic 3x5 notecard/recipe box, which can be found at any major office supply retailer or mass merchant. |
Erv Niehaus
Member From: Litchfield, MN, USA
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posted 04 April 2006 08:12 AM
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I have a Steeler's Choice seat with the side car. This can't be beat. You open the little cover and you can have your strings right there along with a side cutter and string winder.
Erv |
Bob Carlucci
Member From: Candor, New York, USA
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posted 04 April 2006 08:15 AM
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Mine are massed together into a large rusty globule inside a cloudy, deteriorating zip lock bag that is SO shot it no longer zip locks.... |
Larry Strawn
Member From: Golden Valley, Arizona, USA
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posted 04 April 2006 08:16 AM
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My method of string storage?? Two compartments in my pac-a-seat are sized just right for strings. I just grab a handfull and start sorting thru them untill I find what I want! lol..
I do "try" to keep complete sets in one compartment, and singles, and broken sets in the other! Don't always work, but I try!
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Emmons S/D-10, 3/5, Sessions 400 Ltd. Home Grown E/F Rack
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[This message was edited by Larry Strawn on 04 April 2006 at 08:18 AM.]
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Greg Cutshaw
Member From: Corry, PA, USA
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posted 04 April 2006 08:44 AM
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I use a Steeler's Choice with the side compartment also. Worth the extra money to keep everything handy and all together. As a side benefit I leave the side compartment open all the time and place my bar and picks on the inside of the top lid when not actually playing. The hinge is so sturdy and the inside of the top lid is padded making this a doubly great feature. Greg |
Roger Rettig
Member From: NAPLES, FL
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posted 04 April 2006 09:02 AM
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'Steelers' Choice' for me, too!These days I use it on guitar jobs, too - I recently played ten weeks in the orchestra pit playing 'Cats'. My 'SC' seat is so comfortable that I prefer it to anything I might find at the theatre, and it will accommodate all the impedimentia I need on a gig. The side-pocket - with the lid open - holds strings perfectly, and a plastic coffee mug fits in the other 'half'! At home I have an ideally-sized drawer in a cabinet where the surplus string stock is housed. BUT.... What I'd love to find is one of those wooden drawers that Ernie Ball supplies (or used to supply) to dealers - there were index cards to separate the different gauges, and I think they'd be perfect for home use. Where might I get one? RR |
Jon Light
Member From: Brooklyn, NY
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posted 04 April 2006 01:38 PM
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My post above was for storage of my bulk inventory of strings. On the stand I keep all my spares in a zippered CD case: 
 Works great. |
Michael Lee Allen
Member From: Fresno CA USA
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posted 04 April 2006 02:36 PM
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Roger...
I may still have a couple of those Ernie Ball boxes in a storage facility I am going to excavate over the summer. If I have them I will sent them to you for the cost of postage.
Everybody else...
A 5" X 5" X 5" plastic food container. Mine is a "Fabrique au Chine" copy of USA Tupperware that I got 3 for a buck at some dollar store.
Also nylon zipper bags made to carry cassettes or Cds. I have three that were made to hold 8 or 9 cassettes. One has my bars, picks, screwdrivers, wire cutters, and steel strings. The second has my "bottleneck" slides and all the above stuff needed for "standard" guitar. The third is my "ethnic bag" with spare oud and
saz tuning pegs, saz picks, kanun picks, and oud/bouzouki/saz/kanun/baglama strings. |
Roger Rettig
Member From: NAPLES, FL
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posted 04 April 2006 02:47 PM
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Michael - that's very kind of you!I'll be very happy to cover your costs, and to send a Forum Donation to b0b. I've sent you an e-mail. Thanks! RR |
Jerry Overstreet
Member From: Louisville Ky
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posted 04 April 2006 09:49 PM
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I bought a string organizer kit from Geo L's several years ago. It is a set of divider cards with gauges from .010 or .011, thru .079 [maybe more].They fit perfectly in the seat compartments and are easy to access with the tabs showing the gauges. |
Kelly Hydorn
Member From: Montana, USA
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posted 04 April 2006 09:51 PM
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No offence intended, but I kinda like Bob Carlucci's idea, only I would go the extra step and put em' in deezul fuel to keep the rust off. |
John Daugherty
Member From: Rolla, Missouri, USA
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posted 05 April 2006 05:31 AM
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Steelers Choice "side kick" seat. With the strings in the side compartment, you can get to them while sitting. It's also a good place to carry picks, bars, string winder, etc. I even keep a small flashlight in there.------------------
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Erv Niehaus
Member From: Litchfield, MN, USA
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posted 05 April 2006 06:49 AM
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I like to keep a bologna sandwich in there too for those really looooooong gigs.  |
Len Amaral
Member From: Rehoboth,MA 02769
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posted 05 April 2006 07:32 AM
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Joe Wright had mentioned that strings have a shelf life of a year or so. Changing spare strings in your pack seat that have been sitting there for a long time may not be a bad idea considering the pack seat gets left in your car, garage and other areas where the conditions are not friendly. |
Marlin Smoot
Member From: Atlanta,Georgia, USA
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posted 05 April 2006 08:51 AM
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I've kept mine in my Sho-Bud Seat in one of the compartments with a filing system to get to the string I need fairly quick.....but I love the ideal Jon L has putting the strings in a CD travel case. I like the way the pliers and stringwinder can be kept in the same place as the strings. I'm going to try this system. Thanks for the ideal Jon. This is just one of the millions of great reasons the Forum is a great place to hang out... |
James Cann
Member From: Phoenix, AZ (heart still in Boston)
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posted 05 April 2006 09:12 AM
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quote:
I put them in guage order and wrap a rubber band around them. I guess I'm not inventive, but it works for me.
As do I, with string numbers in the upper right corner . . . early Alzheimer's, you know. quote:
This is just one of the millions of great reasons the Forum is a great place to hang out...
I agree. The wit here never ceases to delight! Wish I could remember the stuff to use later on (see comment #1)!
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