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Posted at July 28, 2016, 9:40 pm:

i am currently cleaning my bass, and its almost 12 midnight, n e ways i am gonna boil my strings, but i cant do it right now, should i put my strings back on and take em off tommorrow and boil em or is it fine to leave em off?

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I always hear horror stories of necks warping without the strings on t...

As far as I know it is not especially damaging to leave strings off th...

I have left them off my mim fender jazz over night before, I didnt hav...

just dont risk it.

yes, leaving your bass without any strings, (i.

my kramer had strings off it for about a week when i broke a string.

Don't listen to these idiots, nothing will happen.

tell that to my Washburn that now has a cockeyed neck.

I would think it would have alot to do with neck thickness, like the t...

Boil one string at a time, perhaps? It takes time, but you're on the s...

Obviously its best to not leave your bass without any strings on, I wo...

speaking of pointless.

^^^ But on the contrary, quite many seem to have a different experienc...

I left my Geddy Sig.

boiling makes it sound more brighter, more trebly, w/c is good for som...

shut up.

i mite e totally wrong about this one but if u take your strings off ...

Would leaving the neck off for too long have any effect? Cause ive bee...

I left strings off my fretless for about a week when I was poring over...

I'll give you a cockintheeye.

2 of my basses have no strings on the neck and they're fine.

Here's the trick to that.

? uh, obviously not all the time.

browneye?

I left my Yamaha without strings for 4 months.

well i left the strings off for about 12 hours and nothing happened, s...

yeah.

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