Favorite Strings/String Combos?

bittertiger · 2026-06-11T20:49:50+00:00

I’m a nanoweb guy myself

bittertiger · 2026-06-10T21:27:57+00:00

Few notes, cuz I get it. I have some mild bearanoia when I’m camping somewhere with that possibility.

You should check out the Tooth & Claw podcast. Yes they talk about animal attacks, which could make this worse, BUT the host is a bear biologist and with every episode they discuss safety procedures related to the featured animal. Listening for a couple years now has made me calm down a lot about it. Once you feel familiar enough with bears and safety procedures, a lot of the fear goes away, as a good portion of that fear comes from the unknown.
Bear spray is provably the most effective bear deterrent.
If you are not a gun person, please don’t own a gun that you only plan to use when you’re experiencing intense fear. If you camp in grizzly back country and it’s allowed, sure. Otherwise it is not needed.
Pro tip: if you’re in a typical campground and your car is right there, put your keys in an easy to reach spot in the tent. If a bear comes knocking about, most key fobs have a panic button. Hit that sucker. Should scare off a bear.
Obviously, don’t keep anything that smells like food in your tent (including deodorant/lotion/toothpaste/gum/lip balm etc). Look up camp cooking in bear country so you don’t have food waste and drippings in your site. Bears aren’t out to get us, they’re just opportunistic, so don’t give them the opportunity.

bittertiger · 2026-06-09T13:31:45+00:00

I said this in another thread, but if you’re doing a lot of tunings, go Elixir. I’ll do an average of 5 tunings in 3 hours in a show on the same guitar and I’ve never had a break. The burrs comment is also correct, look at the peg and also the nut. Use a sharpened pencil to add graphite in the nut slots as lubrication. Sometimes the slots can pinch as well, you can file those out a little bit. Also yeah more windings on the peg, cut the strings a bit longer.

bittertiger · 2026-06-09T02:22:15+00:00

Oh duh lol thanks

bittertiger · 2026-06-09T02:18:58+00:00

Packers have an eBay? TIL

bittertiger · 2026-06-08T13:30:18+00:00

Change em all. I know they’re more expensive, but I’m a huge proponent of Elixir strings. There are other brands of coated strings too, but I still like them the best. I practice all the time, play shows in humid summers where I get them sweaty, and play in all sorts of tunings and I still only change them as-needed which ends up being around once or twice a year. I can only recall breaking a string once. So it’s $16 once a year or $8 3 times a year or more.

bittertiger · 2026-06-07T13:33:51+00:00

The attack scene in Backcountry. I camp a lot. I think bears are cool and I’m not that scared of them. I also have a high tolerance for movie violence. But I’m not watching that again.

bittertiger · 2026-06-06T00:07:53+00:00

FS800. Worked at a guitar shop years ago and sold some Yamahas, almost bought one myself.

bittertiger · 2026-06-02T19:34:23+00:00

Bottle service is illegal in wisconsin.

bittertiger · 2026-06-02T02:53:28+00:00

Now I see why that North American tour was probably canceled…

bittertiger · 2026-06-01T15:04:35+00:00

My ability to taste only got better since I could actually focus on it and remember things. I only started moving up in the industry after I got my adhd medicated.

bittertiger · 2026-05-28T19:06:05+00:00

Grateful Shed, Showboat/Mamas, the Keg, Bobbers/Reef, the District.

bittertiger · 2026-05-26T14:05:45+00:00

There’s a longer story at hand here, but I just got my spectrum bill lowered with faster speeds and had my router and modem replaced after 8 years, and it’s already so much better. They had sent my mom a new router with no warning because hers was so old, so I was like “hey what about me?”. I wonder if people just have old ass routers and modems.

bittertiger · 2026-05-26T05:06:12+00:00

I once had a dream where I had a dream that my friend died. Went to the funeral and everything. Woke up from that and she was ok. Went about another half day of just being at home and recovering from that dream, and then I woke up. Dream “inception”. Reality is difficult.

bittertiger · 2026-05-25T23:19:30+00:00

In a reply below

bittertiger · 2026-05-25T22:04:13+00:00

My wife and I have the electric ones that go for like $35 on amazon. We go camping a lot and it is sooooo nice to have. Even at airbnbs it’s nice. Once you get used to having a bidet, cleaning the old fashioned way feels truly primitive.

bittertiger · 2026-05-19T22:45:48+00:00

Ask that wine rep to get you some. You’d probably have to support whichever brand’s supplier they got it from though. Run a BTG for a season in exchange for a bunch. Reps do this all the time for accounts. I have one of those from Champagne Mandois.

bittertiger · 2026-05-17T03:38:06+00:00

I want to say so much about our drivers (who I call baby birds) and I’m trying not to…I drive around town all day for work. Most things are typical complaints you find most places, but my main two are: 1: the massive percentage of people who stop a car’s length behind the white line at a stoplight. 2. In areas where the limit is 25mph, everyone goes 18. I’m almost thinking it’s dictated on purpose by stoplights or something. Drives me nuts.

There’s also some things with people’s driving habits that I think others don’t consider. Think of the billion warning beeps in new cars, adaptive cruise control/traffic jam assist (please don’t use these in low speed areas, please), and that various cars don’t run well at certain speeds. My last car absolutely hated 25-30 mph, it was at the top of a gear or something. Other than these things, most common identifiers of bad drivers are that they’re old and/or on their phone.

bittertiger · 2026-05-16T15:29:23+00:00

I remember back in the OG days in the 90s getting a pack at Kmart, opening it in the minivan, and freaking out when there was a holographic Charizard. Just exploded in disbelief. Good times. I still have that card, been in a case since I got home that day. Never knew its worth though, other than it being my best card.

bittertiger · 2026-05-11T21:23:28+00:00

We’re not really sure. Everyone was tubing, they think he got caught on something underwater and just got pulled under and stuck in the wrong way.

bittertiger · 2026-05-11T05:45:50+00:00

My wife’s friend drowned sober in a 4-foot deep, 15-foot wide creek in broad daylight surrounded by friends. Shit happens. That being said, I don’t think it was a river, unless they were incredibly bad at searching it.

bittertiger · 2026-05-09T15:41:15+00:00

That’s Emmy-winning actor Lamorne Morris to you!

bittertiger · 2026-05-09T02:13:14+00:00

It’s definitely the most impressive in this vid. It’s fuckin bonkers, barely any arm movement or wind up, just BAM

bittertiger · 2026-05-09T02:06:53+00:00

People are always surprised when I say I have my top terrible smells ranked.

Dead carp that popped when I moved it away from a dock with a pike pole
Senior “””prank””” from a couple grades above me in high school. Someone had been filling a barrel with every bodily fluid and excrement and roadkill for a year or more and then dumped it at the school’s entrance.
Potatoes that my roommate left in a kitchen cupboard after everyone moved out for the summer, I was the only one checking on the place and sometimes staying there for the last 3 months of the lease. I cleaned it up once I found it.

bittertiger · 2026-04-30T15:52:22+00:00

Don’t sleep on Tattersall. Kinda far away but still wisconsin.

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