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Guitar Strings Are Dangerous

So I’m restringing my guitar today, and I could feel I poked myself with the B string. Not a huge deal, really, just a little poke. So I’m twisting the tuning machine with one hand, and I’m holding the string to the nut, and I realize the tuning machine is suddenly really, really greasy. So I look down, and I see my thumb and forefinger are covered in blood, and it’s getting all over the neck of the guitar.

“Oh fuck!” I say in my calmest panicky voice and rush to the bathroom to wash the blood off, hopefully clean and disinfect the cut, and maybe even put a Band-Aid on it. But once I cleaned it up, I realized it was just that tiny, tiny poke from the stupid string. I dunno, I’ve done that a million times, and I don’t recall profuse bleeding. Is it possible I burst a capillary or hit an artery or something? Anybody who knows more about anatomy than me (my knowledge extends to knowing all of the body parts featured in the game Operation (so I know it’s not butterflies in my stomach or my funny bone), let me know what I may have done so I don’t do it again.

Posted by Stan on June 12, 2006 10:20 AM  | Permalink | Stories of Pain and Humiliation | Digg It