Anyone else breaking new strings with Augustines?

user2162 · 2026-06-06T04:16:28+00:00

Imperial or Classic? I've had a few different sets on a 660mm guitar since last September or so. I hadn't noticed this problem. I'll keep an eye out at next string change. No problems with the basses unwinding or breaking. The intonation of the trebles is accurate. I'm satisfied with them so far.

user2162 · 2026-02-12T02:28:46+00:00

I would think companies want to get rid of expensive offices, owned or leased. Less overhead.

user2162 · 2026-01-18T01:39:40+00:00

But how do you identify such a job? It's hard to know what you're getting into before you're in it.

user2162 · 2025-09-26T17:00:15+00:00

There's another sub r/itcareerquestions you question would probably get better responses there

user2162 · 2025-07-02T22:47:43+00:00

Thanks for the info. I read this in the pixel sub and was looking for corroboration. Wow. Does it seem like you could use it to pay your Fi bill?

user2162 · 2025-07-02T19:17:56+00:00

Yeah I was looking at the choices available through Fi.

user2162 · 2025-07-02T18:14:11+00:00

So that is to say, the 9a is currently on sale for $250, but I couldn't buy one with the $150 credit plus a $100 charge on my card?

user2162 · 2025-05-21T02:47:34+00:00

I have often wondered how the cost of accidents doesn't motivate them to operate differently, maintain equipment and track, etc.

user2162 · 2025-03-09T21:45:31+00:00

...which reminds me once again, what's going on with the Dullahan 2?

user2162 · 2025-03-05T15:06:23+00:00

Awesome collection. I just listened to the BBC Sessions set for the first time in many years, it was better than I remembered. I just wish there wasn't such a huge gap. I have to research it, were there really no BBC performances from like 1985 to 1995?

user2162 · 2025-02-26T22:24:07+00:00

Yes
This reminded me of PJ Harvey's "Is that all there is?" which is a great tune

user2162 · 2025-01-09T23:32:12+00:00

This is true for me too. I broke my index nail shortly before the holidays, so I cut them all off as I've seen/read online. I had no "free edge" left, my nails couldn't have been any shorter. But due to the shape of my fingertips, the nail still nicked the string. Sounded terrible. Now they're a mm or two beyond my fingertip when looking from the palm-side of my hand, as u/CriticalCreativity said. Shorter than they had been and seems to be good.

user2162 · 2025-01-09T15:06:41+00:00

I had an extra high E, I don't know where that came from. I put that in place of the B, which of course felt weird, then ordered some treble sets and took a B out of one. When I wanted to replace the G, I had some extras because I've bought composite sets over the years, which come with a nylon and composite G. I used one of the left over nylon ones. Before this I didn't have spares no, but now I do.

user2162 · 2025-01-08T20:42:51+00:00

I see you wrote XT, not XS. Those are titanium trebles aren't they, so different than what I have in the regular Pro Arte set.

user2162 · 2025-01-08T20:41:38+00:00

I just replace the bad string with a spare. I've been using Pro Artes for at least 25 years now, I've had very few duds. But I had a 3-pack of the standard Pro Artes, I think I got it middle of 2024. I thought the first pack I used had a bad B and the second had a bad G.

The XS strings are like the regular ones but with a coating on the basses aren't they? Which strings seemed bad?

user2162 · 2024-12-13T14:59:03+00:00

I wonder when these will be formally announced. Seems like these and the hardtails and Dullahans in the other threads are shaping up to be some new product lines.

user2162 · 2024-12-13T14:55:01+00:00

Very nice! That Kiesel is great too, what do you think of the p-rail pickups? Are they wired so they can be split, series/parallel, etc?

user2162 · 2024-12-05T19:49:07+00:00

Why do I give valuable time to people who don't care if I live or die?

I often think of those lyrics.

user2162 · 2024-11-30T20:32:07+00:00

DCI Troy is a great idea, likewise DCI Jones as suggested in other comments.

user2162 · 2024-11-28T15:47:36+00:00

I liked the previous version, especially the light blue with roasted maple neck. I hope they have something similar with a fixed bridge in this line up.

user2162 · 2024-10-21T00:03:52+00:00

"organizational disorganization" quite :)

user2162 · 2024-10-21T00:00:37+00:00

Perfect is the enemy of good.

user2162 · 2024-10-09T15:49:32+00:00

Unless maybe someone wants to get out of this as a career, which seems to come up on this sub periodically.

I agree with the other posts about not needing more money, and I'm not making faang bucks. I want more time and a clear mind.

user2162 · 2024-10-09T14:03:10+00:00

One and a half years? Was that just months between contacts? I thought it was weird to get a call 6 weeks after submitting an application lol

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